This doesn’t directly address your questions in the post, but it addresses the titular question of ‘which products should we prioritize avoiding?’ Ozy Brennan suggests that ‘you can eliminate 95% of the suffering associated with your diet simply by giving up farmed fish, poultry, and eggs’. I don’t know if they took the associated insect suffering into account.
This doesn’t directly address your questions in the post, but it addresses the titular question of ‘which products should we prioritize avoiding?’ Ozy Brennan suggests that ‘you can eliminate 95% of the suffering associated with your diet simply by giving up farmed fish, poultry, and eggs’. I don’t know if they took the associated insect suffering into account.
https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/on-ameliatarianism
Thanks. This does not seem to take into account insect suffering unfortunately, but it still includes some valuable information.