To minimize the overall amount of suffering one causes, is it better to eat an organic Vegan diet, or eat a conventional Vegan diet and donate the money saved? Measured in neuron deaths of conscious animals and using AI estimates. Comparisons to non-Vegan diets included.

Published on July 3, 2026 9:07 AM GMTEdit: Please take this entire post with a huge grain of salt, and see it more as a thought experiment than as donation or lifestyle advice!Hi, I’ve recently started looking into neuron deaths as a way of measuring overall harm caused and wanted to answer the question in the title for myself. I thought some here might also be interested. For transparency: These calculations and estimations were done with the help of AI (Google Gemini), and I did not independen...