Can’t you get almost all of that cost reduction without becoming fully vegetarian? For that matter, could one get some portion of almost all of the befits of being completely vegetarian by becoming a part-time vegetarian?
If the part-time vegetarian still eats significant amounts of meat and eggs, then yes, there will also be a significant ethical difference.
If you’re just interested in cutting down the cost of your diet, you also might switch to different products such as cage eggs. The cheapest production often is also the most cruel. But I assume that’s not what you meant (and it’s not what I meant either).
Yeah, I meant e.g. adopting a vegetarian diet for three days a week and an unchanged diet for the other four; it would seem to offer 3⁄7 of the benefits of being fully vegetarian.
Okay, now I see what you meant. I assumed that since you’d optimize for financial benefit you want to start with a reduction of the most expensive meat options and thus get more than 3⁄7 of the financial benefit when adopting it three days a week.
If I wanted to optimize for financial benefit, I’d be completely agnostic about eating meat, and I suspect I might end up eating mostly oils for calories but buy bulk grains to grow vitamin-rich yeasts.
Can’t you get almost all of that cost reduction without becoming fully vegetarian? For that matter, could one get some portion of almost all of the befits of being completely vegetarian by becoming a part-time vegetarian?
Yes. Being a part-time vegetarian is a good choice.
Yes, except the benefit of not hurting sentient beings, I’d say. And probably except the benefit of not being biased towards hurting animals.
Is the benefit of not hurting sentient beings at all significantly different from the benefit of not hurting sentient beings as much?
Treat me as though I don’t understand the moral value in not hurting animals...
If the part-time vegetarian still eats significant amounts of meat and eggs, then yes, there will also be a significant ethical difference.
If you’re just interested in cutting down the cost of your diet, you also might switch to different products such as cage eggs. The cheapest production often is also the most cruel. But I assume that’s not what you meant (and it’s not what I meant either).
Yeah, I meant e.g. adopting a vegetarian diet for three days a week and an unchanged diet for the other four; it would seem to offer 3⁄7 of the benefits of being fully vegetarian.
Okay, now I see what you meant. I assumed that since you’d optimize for financial benefit you want to start with a reduction of the most expensive meat options and thus get more than 3⁄7 of the financial benefit when adopting it three days a week.
If I wanted to optimize for financial benefit, I’d be completely agnostic about eating meat, and I suspect I might end up eating mostly oils for calories but buy bulk grains to grow vitamin-rich yeasts.