Wow. This brings me hope we can effectively fight factory farming in the near future. It’s just such a good strategy.
I think this form of offsetting is acceptable on a very broad range of moral perspectives (practically any perspective that is comfortable with humane eggs themselves).
Within the EA / adjacent crowd. I suspect a lot of normal people will be averse to egg offsets because “you’re still participating in the system”.
What would happen if many people tried to use this offsetting strategy?
One additional effect: egg offsets would increase the fungibility of humane eggs (within each certification level). I can imagine this switching the business model of some humane chicken farmers from “find a restaurant willing to buy my eggs at the price it costs me to produce them” to “gain some extra money from humane egg certificates, then sell my eggs in the global egg wholesale market”.
Wow. This brings me hope we can effectively fight factory farming in the near future. It’s just such a good strategy.
Within the EA / adjacent crowd. I suspect a lot of normal people will be averse to egg offsets because “you’re still participating in the system”.
One additional effect: egg offsets would increase the fungibility of humane eggs (within each certification level). I can imagine this switching the business model of some humane chicken farmers from “find a restaurant willing to buy my eggs at the price it costs me to produce them” to “gain some extra money from humane egg certificates, then sell my eggs in the global egg wholesale market”.