We'll be discussing The Meat Eater Problem by Michael Plant, recently published by The Journal of Controversial Ideas. Plant argues that two traditional views in EA—that it is wrong not to save a stranger's life (when one can easily do so) and that meat-eating is wrong on animal-suffering grounds—while often accepted simultaneously, enter a sharp contradiction when the stranger and the meat-eater are the same person. The author bases this on four premises that hold even outside of purely consequentialist approaches. Plant explores possible resolutions while admitting that, given the uncertainties and subjective assessments involved, reasonable people could substantially disagree on how to resolve this contradiction.

Link to paper: https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/2/2/206