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If it's over a steak place or pasta place it will be steak every time, no matter the price. I feel like shit after eating pasta, so I never eat it. I feel grea

If it's over a steak place or pasta place it will be steak every time, no matter the price. I feel like shit after eating pasta, so I never eat it. I feel great after eating meat, so I always eat it. But we don't eat out, that's more wasteful and expensive than anything else. fires up the grill

eru 2y ago
Well, I'm sure you can see that other people might eat pasta (as evidenced by pasta still being produced by profit-oriented companies), and I'm sure you also have some other opportunities in your life where you are deciding between different amounts of meat you could eat? > But we don't eat out, that's more wasteful and expensive than anything else. fires up the grill That might be true for you. But there are also people who eg want to eat stuff from the grill perhaps once a year, and storing their own idle grill the other 364 days would be wasteful.
- theultdev 2y ago
  That's totally fine, people can eat whatever they want, however they want. And yes, I'm constantly deciding between different amounts of meat I can eat, it usually depends on how hungry I am. I decide the amounts, what meat protein, then pick veggies that go with it, and add a small amount of carbs.
  - eru 2y ago
    Btw, if you want to keep your habits, but for some reason feel guilty about your resource consumption, you could just pay two other people to go vegan (or four other people to cut back their meat consumption by half), and you would achieve twice as much as by changing your own diet. In terms of overall utilitarian impact, I mean. Not in terms of some moral systems.
    - theultdev 2y ago
      Is there an app for that? I think people around here would charge too much to go vegan. It might be cheaper use people on the West Coast.
      - eru 2y ago
        It seems like you envision paying Americans to eat less meat? In the grand scheme of things, Americans are very expensive people. For example, Argentinians both eat a lot of meat, and are currently in dire need for some hard currency. I don't know if there's an app for this. However, you could do the next best thing and find a charity that works on promoting eating-less-meat in Argentina. (Argentina is just an example, I have no clue whether it's the best value for money for this very specific. I'm just fairly sure that they are better value for money than spending money in the US.) https://blog.givewell.org/2010/12/27/animal-welfare-charities/ https://blog.givewell.org/2010/12/27/animal-welfare-charitie... might be an interesting read.
        theultdev 2y ago
        I was joking as you brought it up. I don't believe anyone needs to eat less meat.

eru 2y ago

Well, I'm sure you can see that other people might eat pasta (as evidenced by pasta still being produced by profit-oriented companies), and I'm sure you also have some other opportunities in your life where you are deciding between different amounts of meat you could eat? > But we don't eat out, that's more wasteful and expensive than anything else. fires up the grill That might be true for you. But there are also people who eg want to eat stuff from the grill perhaps once a year, and storing their own idle grill the other 364 days would be wasteful.

theultdev 2y ago
That's totally fine, people can eat whatever they want, however they want. And yes, I'm constantly deciding between different amounts of meat I can eat, it usually depends on how hungry I am. I decide the amounts, what meat protein, then pick veggies that go with it, and add a small amount of carbs.
- eru 2y ago
  Btw, if you want to keep your habits, but for some reason feel guilty about your resource consumption, you could just pay two other people to go vegan (or four other people to cut back their meat consumption by half), and you would achieve twice as much as by changing your own diet. In terms of overall utilitarian impact, I mean. Not in terms of some moral systems.
  - theultdev 2y ago
    Is there an app for that? I think people around here would charge too much to go vegan. It might be cheaper use people on the West Coast.
    - eru 2y ago
      It seems like you envision paying Americans to eat less meat? In the grand scheme of things, Americans are very expensive people. For example, Argentinians both eat a lot of meat, and are currently in dire need for some hard currency. I don't know if there's an app for this. However, you could do the next best thing and find a charity that works on promoting eating-less-meat in Argentina. (Argentina is just an example, I have no clue whether it's the best value for money for this very specific. I'm just fairly sure that they are better value for money than spending money in the US.) https://blog.givewell.org/2010/12/27/animal-welfare-charities/ https://blog.givewell.org/2010/12/27/animal-welfare-charitie... might be an interesting read.
      - theultdev 2y ago
        I was joking as you brought it up. I don't believe anyone needs to eat less meat.