Assuming I don’t have to kill and clean them myself, and that I am not emotionally attached to any of the animals in question:
If the value is not cumulative, the answer is likely zero, because of the social penalties of being known to eat animals categorized as “pets”, “cute”, and “babies”. More than that, contingent on the ability to do so without public knowledge of such and depending on age; likely at most 200 or so, which assumes young animals and that I eat only the muscles and little else until finished (id est, the point at which the utility of a varied diet exceeds that of a point of IQ.)
If the value is cumulative with an expected gain of around one point a year, roughly an average of around two pounds of food per day, however many individual animals that works out to be, id est, the point at which the utility of not gaining excess weight exceeds that of gaining IQ, a value which may vary with time.
I suspect this comment will go a long way toward convincing others of the accuracy of the first word of my user name...
Voluptatis avidus, Magis quam salutis; Mortuus in anima, Curam gero cutis.
Oh, I do value virtue, to be sure; but I have gradually convinced myself to internalize the value of a moral calculus, and I accept that my judgments may not align with most people’s instinctive emotional reactions.
Assuming I don’t have to kill and clean them myself, and that I am not emotionally attached to any of the animals in question:
If the value is not cumulative, the answer is likely zero, because of the social penalties of being known to eat animals categorized as “pets”, “cute”, and “babies”. More than that, contingent on the ability to do so without public knowledge of such and depending on age; likely at most 200 or so, which assumes young animals and that I eat only the muscles and little else until finished (id est, the point at which the utility of a varied diet exceeds that of a point of IQ.)
If the value is cumulative with an expected gain of around one point a year, roughly an average of around two pounds of food per day, however many individual animals that works out to be, id est, the point at which the utility of not gaining excess weight exceeds that of gaining IQ, a value which may vary with time.
I suspect this comment will go a long way toward convincing others of the accuracy of the first word of my user name...
In this crowd? I don’t see why.
Voluptatis avidus, Magis quam salutis; Mortuus in anima, Curam gero cutis.
Oh, I do value virtue, to be sure; but I have gradually convinced myself to internalize the value of a moral calculus, and I accept that my judgments may not align with most people’s instinctive emotional reactions.