Good on you for making a big effort here! Another harm-reduction approach like this which might be easier or preferable for some people is to just replace eati

Good on you for making a big effort here! Another harm-reduction approach like this which might be easier or preferable for some people is to just replace eating chicken with beef (bonus if the beef is ethically-sourced, but still worthwhile if not). Here's the core of the reasoning (quoted from http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/23/vegetarianism-for-meat-eaters/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/23/vegetarianism-for-meat-...): The average cow is very big and makes 405,000 calories of beef; the average chicken is very small and makes 3000 calories worth of chicken. So each year, I kill about 0.3 cows and about 42 chickens, for a total of 42.3 animals killed. Suppose that I stop eating chicken and switch entirely to beef. Now I am killing about 0.6 cows and 0 chickens, for a total of 0.6 animals killed. By this step alone, I have decreased the number of animals I am killing from 42.3/year to 0.6/year, a 98% improvement. The difference becomes even bigger once you compare levels of suffering. Chickens are probably the most miserable farm animals; they are mutilated, packed into tiny cages to the point of immobility, left to fester in their own waste, and bred so intensively for size that their bodies cannot support them and they likely experience severe musculoskeletal pain. Although cows’ lives are also pretty terrible too, Brian Tomasik estimates that chickens’ suffering is about twice as bad.