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The meat eater problem

I've heard people argue that it's possible global health and development could actually be negative utility due to the consequence of increased meat consumption and also factory farming. It feels like EAs who value animal suffering at all must provide very clear reasons why its okay to support saving the lives of meat-eaters and also developing the third-world given the "meat eater problem."

Even stepping away from utilitarianism, it seems more wrong to actively save someone who is very likely going to commit a moral atrocity (if you believe eating meat is a moral atrocity).

How do you deal with the meat-eater problem? I find the problem very compelling and I do not know myself how to deal with it.

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