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. by PreciousPig

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Edit: 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 in­de­pen­dently ver­...

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