Removing Barriers To Veganism

Thank you for your engagement! I believe we need a two-pronged approach centered on freely redistributable open-source AI to effectively remove barriers to veganism:

Comprehensive barrier removal through antirivalrous free/libre software planning tools, specifically the Gourmet meal planning system that's part of the broader Free Life Planner (FLP) ecosystem. This AI-powered meal planner is designed to revolutionize how people approach vegan eating by:

• Generating personalized meal plans optimized for nutrition, taste, cost, and effort
• Providing access to ~150,000 recipes (with plans to expand further)
• Supporting inventory management with automated shopping lists
• Incorporating sophisticated food ontologies for understanding relationships between ingredients
• Reducing food costs by up to 4x through better planning and bulk cooking strategies
• Gradually steering users toward more plant-based options using gamification and behavior-change techniques
• Integrating with larger planning systems that can coordinate meal planning with shopping, transportation, and financial management
• Supporting specialized dietary transitions with medical and ethical considerations

Intelligent dialogue systems that address the normalization of animal agriculture through both logical reasoning and persuasion techniques. The FLP ecosystem already includes components for:

• Contingent dialogue planning that can adapt to different user responses
• Argumentation mapping for developing logical cases for veganism
• Reactive planning for guiding conversations
• Integration with LLM-based persuasion agents like the "suasion" agent mentioned in the reference manual
• Gamification systems that can reward progress toward plant-based eating

The system serves as a harm reduction tool that guides people through a gradual transition to plant-based eating in a way that respects their current preferences while encouraging more ethical choices.

I'll be drafting a comprehensive paper outlining this approach starting tomorrow, examining how these tools directly address animal welfare concerns through personalized support. This paper will provide a point-by-point response to each barrier identified in my previous research, with corresponding technological mitigations implemented through the FLP ecosystem. As my research shows, reducing demand for animal products through technological support could dramatically improve welfare conditions for billions of sentient creatures each year.

What makes this approach powerful is that Gourmet isn't just a standalone meal planner—it's part of a larger Free Life Planner (FLP) project with over 1,000 subsystems designed to help people manage various aspects of daily life. The system maintains a comprehensive "digital twin" of the user's situation that enables coordinated planning across domains, with vegan transition becoming just one aspect of an integrated approach to health, ethics, and sustainability.

The redistributability of free/libre software allows these solutions to expand and adapt to diverse needs. As noted in my FLP paper, "free software is non-rivalrous and can be copied endlessly to benefit more people," making it an ideal medium for addressing global challenges like animal welfare.

Would you be interested in collaborating to strengthen the ethical diet transition components of the system? With your expertise and the FLP's powerful underlying architecture, we could develop truly effective pathways to plant-based eating that address the full spectrum of barriers I've documented.

Key Resources:

• Gourmet-Formalog-Standalone: https://github.com/aindilis/gourmet-formalog-standalone
• Meal Planning Resources: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/WebWiki/MealPlanningResources.html
• Barriers to Veganism Documentation: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/barriers.txt
• Free Life Planner paper: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/flp-jwas-article-draft-1.pdf
• FLP Reference Manual: https://github.com/aindilis/flp/blob/main/ReferenceManual.md
• Free Life Planner Github: https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner