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...so it's safe to assume all animal products are unethical. According to that statement, the ethical value of any animal product is a function of some huge nu
by tedks 13y ago
...so it's safe to assume all animal products are unethical.
According to that statement, the ethical value of any animal product is a function of some huge number of variables, and the upper bound on that value is the minimum of that set.
So, it's safe to assume that all animal products you encounter as a human are unethical. Regardless of where you buy them, or what their advertising is, you should assume they are unethical and be very, very difficult to persuade. Anything else is just unsafe.
- blahedo 13y agoI agree, and I understood the careful phrasing ("safe", "assume") in the original remark---but given the number of people who apparently didn't understand, I wanted to give a clarified version.
- tedks 13y agoI think the problem with your phrasing is that most humans will interpret it to mean "oh, I can just find something that looks good on any one of these metrics, and then it'll be ethical." This is why animal welfare-ists exist, and why people think that there is such a thing as "happy meat."