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Can you provide another example please? I'm not sure I follow the bucket analogy.
If I choose not to eat meat it lessens the demand for it (however minutely). On a larger scale with many vegans refusing to eat meat less animals are bred into existence to be slaughtered.
What am I missing?
Not sure why he believes citing that graph is some great counterpoint. Less demand does factually translate to less supply and therefore less suffering. The problem is that populations still continue to grow and the number of vegetarians/vegans is neglible to overall growth.
Obviously if every vegan and vegetarian suddenly began eating meat again, then that graph would only increase in rate of change.
Change the minds of more people, and watch that change the rate of supply of course.
how? how can you know whether a farm can even expand to accommodate more production?
any excuse you make doesn't change whether more animals were killed this year than last, regardless of how many vegans there are.
I don't think I agree with this, as less people buy meat the demand for it falls. As the demand falls less is produced. Kind of a simple take I guess but I don't think your comment makes sense.
Is there an angle to this that I've missed?
that's not causal
as far as i can tell, that's never happened. so, in practice, being vegan has never caused a reduction in suffering.
this is not causal
Just double checked the definition of causal here and I'm pretty sure it is. As the demand for a product falls, less is produced.
that's not always true. sometimes demand falls and production continues.
that has never happened. if it had, if being vegan had caused production of meat to fall, then i think you could make a case. but it hasn't so you can't.
i didn't like the bucket analogy when i wrote it. i don't blame you.
i'm just looking for proof of causation between being vegan and suffering being reduced.