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thegapbetweenus t1_ium2sfm wrote

Reply to comment by Humoer in [OC] There are more self-described vegans than vegetarians among US users of Twitter by jasonjonesresearch

Or a lot of (moral) reasons for being vegetarian, if you are consequent, would lead you to become vegan.

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SickMemeMahBoi t1_iumwmyz wrote

This is the point people miss, it's not about our feelings or being superior or anything, I went vegan for the environment three years ago, stayed vegan for the animals.

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SnipesCC t1_iumzayi wrote

I did the same the other way around. Became vegetarian for the animals, stayed both for them and because of the environmental factors. I didn't know a lot about the environmental effects of the beef industry on global warming as a 12 year old in the mid nineties.

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Alas7ymedia t1_iumz2eq wrote

You are assuming a linear behaviour for human decisions, but in the same way that a person would eat a cow but not a horse, some people draw the line at fish, others at eggs, and so on.

As a vegetarian myself, I have read that the economic, health and environmental benefits of not eating meat draw a curve with an optimal point right before becoming full vegetarian; going vegan can easily feel like going too far since the price of ingredients and carbon and water footprints start going up again when you start to diversify your diet to replace the things you liked before and that is before considering the social impact of not sharing other people's food.

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thegapbetweenus t1_iunhvma wrote

>You are assuming a linear behaviour for human decisions

Not really, but I get your point. At the same time we both are assuming people are rational optimisers (my point is just a logical one). A popular believe in economics, but I would strongly argue against it.

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