You should have a question for “This practice is tasty”. Seriously. If I didn’t find meat tasty I’d be a vegetarian. So I put it under “other benefits”.
But I feel like taste is such a driver of consumption habits that it shouldn’t be relegated to “other”.
I think you’ll find few people on LW who argue that eating meat has anything more than marginal nutritional benefits (and that’s more about what meat and how much you eat than simply having some in your diet), apart from tastiness; To me it is like many luxuries that are not particularly justifiable from a utilitarian viewpoint. And I say this with consideration of harm to animals—many luxuries have serious moral issues involved in their production.
If you refer to the ‘I consume primarily meat’ option I didn’t add it only for completeness purposes. I know do one person who actually eats almost only meat. And he is a quite intelligent person. It just so happens that his metabolism seems to run different from most other persons. For example he eats only on weekends and only drinks during the week. I’m not sure if he has the option to change this.
That is a very surprising pattern (but I can think of a handful of medically-driven diets that have mandatory meat consumption, not saying that’s what his is). It’s worth noting they exist but I suspect most of the respondents here are in my boat.
You should have a question for “This practice is tasty”. Seriously. If I didn’t find meat tasty I’d be a vegetarian. So I put it under “other benefits”.
But I feel like taste is such a driver of consumption habits that it shouldn’t be relegated to “other”.
Yes I should have. It was mentioned in the discussion I had about vegetarism some time ago but got lost when I decided to ‘quickly’ add this poll.
I think you’ll find few people on LW who argue that eating meat has anything more than marginal nutritional benefits (and that’s more about what meat and how much you eat than simply having some in your diet), apart from tastiness; To me it is like many luxuries that are not particularly justifiable from a utilitarian viewpoint. And I say this with consideration of harm to animals—many luxuries have serious moral issues involved in their production.
From a certain point of view almost everything we eat is a luxury most of the time of the year.
If you refer to the ‘I consume primarily meat’ option I didn’t add it only for completeness purposes. I know do one person who actually eats almost only meat. And he is a quite intelligent person. It just so happens that his metabolism seems to run different from most other persons. For example he eats only on weekends and only drinks during the week. I’m not sure if he has the option to change this.
That is a very surprising pattern (but I can think of a handful of medically-driven diets that have mandatory meat consumption, not saying that’s what his is). It’s worth noting they exist but I suspect most of the respondents here are in my boat.