EA - [Linkpost] Why pescetarianism is bad for animal welfare - Vox, Future Perfect by Garrison

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Linkpost] Why pescetarianism is bad for animal welfare - Vox, Future Perfect, published by Garrison on March 16, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.In my debut for Vox, I write about why switching to a pescetarian diet for animal welfare reasons is probably a mistake.I was motivated to reduce animal consumption by EA reasoning. I initially thought that the moral progression of diets was something like vegan > vegetarian > pescetarian > omnivore. But I now think the typical pescetarian diet is worse than an omnivorous one. (I was actually convinced in part by an EA NYC talk by Becca Franks on fish psychology.)Why?Fish usually eat other fish, and they're smaller on average than typical farmed animals.The evidence for their sentience is much stronger than I previously thought. I think my credence is now something like P(pig/cow sentience) = 99.99%, P(chicken/fish sentience) = 99%Given that there are ~30k fish species, generalizing about them is a bit tricky, but I think the evidence of fish sentience is about as strong as the evidence for chicken sentience, something I would guess more people accept.I also spend time discussing:environmental impacts of fishingconsumer choice vs. systemic changeshrimp welfareThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.