Think of it this way, unless the whole population is vegan there is going to be only a certain percentage able to afford or have access to the ethical omnivore standard. Therefore even if their model is one of suffering reduction across the board and elimination of ‘factory farming’ then the model the rest of the population would be required to follow to allow their overall utilitarian calculation is a vegan one. If 99% of products currently come from factory farms and replacing that demand is impossible – this is why farming intensified in the first place, then the scaled back model can only
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