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Reporting (and commenting!) on research aimed at reducing meat consumption
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Abolition, acquiescence, chipping away at the edges (opens the original)
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For several reasons, I am thinking about my next career move, starting about 6-9 months from now. Some swirling elements in the decision: evaluating my stint as a researcher; an expected influx of new funding to the animal advocacy movement (and some attendant & <a href="https://collectivelygary.substack.co
The burdens of proof for vegan dogs and vegan cats are very different (opens the original)
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My beloved fellow Brooklynites sometimes like to tell me about their dogs’ human grade diets, i.e. food their guardians might also eat (if desperate). It is also apparently trendy for yuppies to see their darlings as wolves in more del
Traditional veggie options often outperform modern ones at displacing meat (opens the original)
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At the economics of animal welfare conference in June, my colleague Jessica Hope presented our “what if we added more plant-based meat alternatives to a Chipotle menu” paper (summarized here). Someone asked: Emma Garnett & co. have a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.
'Politicized research' is not research (opens the original)
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This post is not about getting people to eat less meat per se, but about the meta issue of what it is we’re doing when we do science. My view is that if you know before collecting data what conclusions you’ll reach and there’s no chance that the data will change your mind, you’re not doing research. Sociology grad students in political lifeAs and have recently noted, sociol
Probabilistic moral reasoning is unintuitive (opens the original)
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At the Animal Welfare Economics conference last week, some folks and I discussed how we think about the harms associated with different animal products, e.g., a glass of milk is less bad than an omelette because cows produce like 12 tons of milk a year (etc.). At which point someone wisely pointed out: a utilitarian framework is not how any of us got involved in this work in the first place. We’re in it for much squishier reasons about how animals deserve to be treated, their rights, th
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