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“If you want to be vegan but you worry about health effects of no meat, consider being vegan except for mussels/oysters” by KatWoods

2025/6/30
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  1. They're unlikely to be sentient (few neurons, immobile)

  2. If they are sentient, the farming practices look likely to be pretty humane

  3. They're extremely nutritionally dense

Buying canned smoked oysters/mussels and eating them plain or on crackers is super easy and cheap.

It's an acquired taste for some, but I love them.


First published: June 30th, 2025

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cwpxfpj4o99bDrv7X/if-you-want-to-be-vegan-but-you-worry-about-health-effects)


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