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Yet if you also care about non-human pain and suffering, then that won't really help.

• maccard 8y ago
  Yet swapping from factory farmed beef to locally sourced free range chicken will help with both. Neither caring about the environment, nor caring about non-human pain and suffering are binary choices. What is better for animal well being may be worse for the environment (plastics in lieu of leather), and vice versa (forest clearing for Palm oil plantations). It's important to care about both and to do what _you_ believe is the most important. You should strive to make better choices, even if they are imperfect.
  • hjek 8y ago
    > You should strive to make better choices, even if they are imperfect. Definitely. If some unachievable ideal of perfectionism is preventing us from doing anything at all, it's quite harmful. > What is better for animal well being may be worse for the environment (plastics in lieu of leather), and vice versa (forest clearing for Palm oil plantations). This claim is often used as an argument to stay away from soy products even though the amounts of (mostly GM) soy used to feed livestock are larger by an order of magnitude.