ABSTRACT
Suppose that purchasing (or eating) does make a difference. Is that all the utilitarian needs to establish that we ought to be vegans? No: even if individual consumers can make a difference, utilitarianism doesn’t require us to be vegans; it requires us to eat unusually. In this chapter, I argue that due to the harms to animals associated with plant agriculture, utilitarianism requires us to eat roadkill, garbage, bivalves, and insects. It probably also requires eating the eggs from backyard chickens and limited hunting, and, depending on your version of utilitarianism, some small-scale agriculture. However, I leave these topics for a later chapter.
