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If you were prevented from eating meat/dairy for some long period of time (say a year or even 10), I doubt you would willingly lose a finger in order to start eating meat/dairy again.

I think the relevant empirical question is whether people who refrain from eating meat or dairy are on average less happy (or successful, or whatever other metric) than people who do eat those metrics. Trusting your own guess at what the disutility might be is flawed, you are biased because your current self cannot identify with such a change in identity but the consequences of actually making the change may be minimal or positive rather than negative.

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