Effective Altruism
Doing the most good you can with what you have. Charity effectiveness, animal welfare and the ethics of eating, global health, and acting well under moral uncertainty — argued in outcomes, not intentions.
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Going vegan barely helps animals
Quitting meat feels like the most direct thing one person can do for animals, since you stop paying for the harm yourself. Score it on animals spared per individual diet change, counterfactually, by tracing how your missing purchase moves through a lumpy supply chain, and the most personal lever turns out to be one of the weakest you have.
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BUILD THE WORLD
Human population is increasing, everywhere we see there is poverty, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing every day, the youth is losing interest in everything, etc. How will an individual, growing up in these difficult times survive and reach his or her potential?
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Is eating sardines far more ethical than eating beef?
If you are going to eat an animal, the question is not whether its death is sad. It is how much suffering your choice actually adds to the world for each gram of protein you get back. Most people answer with a feeling instead, and the feeling favors the cow, because a cow is one large familiar death and a tin of sardines looks like a small massacre. Scored properly, the feeling is backwards.