A quick economic model of humane meat consumption — Tejas Subramaniam
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A framework to think about when a vegan might eat humane meat instead.
June 5, 2026 Humam Aziz asks, “Does eating free-range products increase animal welfare, or does it drive prices up for humane animal products, leaving consumers (who are highly elastic) to switch towards cheaper, higher-suffering animal products?” It seems clear that non-vegans eating more-humane animal products is, other things being equal, preferable (for the farmed animals in question) to them eating less-humane animal products, because even if their demand drives up prices for more-humane meat (or eggs), that can (assuming upward-sloping supply curves) only partially offset the benefit…
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