What you originally said was “say it’s not at all obvious that a vegan diet has health tradeoffs ex-ante”. I think what you meant here was “it’s not clear a vegan diet is net negative.” A vegan diet leading to lower energy levels but longer lifespan is the definition of a trade-off.
This might be semantics, but when you said “Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes” I (until now) interpreted the claim as vegans needing to trade off health (writ large) against other desirable properties (taste, cost, convenience, etc), not a tradeoff within different components of health.
I don’t have a sense of how common my reading was, however, and I don’t want to put words in Natalia’s mouth.
This might be semantics, but when you said “Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes” I (until now) interpreted the claim as vegans needing to trade off health (writ large) against other desirable properties (taste, cost, convenience, etc), not a tradeoff within different components of health.
I don’t have a sense of how common my reading was, however, and I don’t want to put words in Natalia’s mouth.
Life is trade-offs all the way down.