Conversation

"...the realistic alternative to meat eating is not a better life but for those animals to not exist in the first place."
- #ScottAlexander
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-net-harm/

I wonder if Scott realizes this sounds an awful lot like one of the justifications for human slavery? I call false dichotomy. Without farming of non-human animals for human food, our food production would take up a fraction of the land it does now, and the balance could be rewilded to support larger population of free non-humans.