Henry Stanley 🔸 comments on animal welfare has an evidence problem

[Henry Stanley 🔸]

we already had multiple strong studies showing that the availability of equivalent substitutes does not lead to major changes in meat consumption.

This feels like your weakest argument. So far there aren’t “equivalent substitutes” to meat—only plant based imitations—so it’s not clear what these studies are telling us. The RP study you link to explicitly says it’s an analysis of plant-based meats and not cultured meat.

[david_reinstein]

I agree with you that “showing that the availability of equivalent substitutes does not lead to major changes in meat consumption” is stated too strongly.

There’s a profound lack of evidence, and it’s also very difficult to gain reliable evidence in this domain.