Seth Green on why reducing meat consumption is hard and what actually works
About this episode
Seth Green discusses the challenges of reducing meat consumption and effective strategies based on his research.
This episode, I spoke with Seth Ariel Green, a research scientist at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford university. He recently published a meta-analysis called “Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem” (EA Forum summary here) where he reviewed over 30 papers and hundreds of interventions on the topic. Seth also writes about the science of meat reduction on his Substack, called Regression to the Meat, which I highly recommend checking ...
People in this episode
Host: James Özden
Guest: Seth Ariel Green
Topics covered
- meat consumption
- sustainability
- food science
- research analysis
- animal products
Keywords
- meat reduction
- sustainability
- food lab
- Stanford
- animal products
- research
- interventions
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Humane and Sustainable Food Lab, Stanford university, Regression to the Meat
Books & works: Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem
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