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Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says

www.nbcnews.com Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says

The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he's in isn't accommodating his vegan diet.

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Why would the default be the diet of a small minority?
- Because humans don't need meat to survive.
  
  Humans don't need anything but nutrient slop to survive, but the prisons aim for something better largely because it keeps riots down.
  
  Sure, but you could e.g. start with slop and then let people request something different. That's what I meant by 'default'. Perhaps there's a better world?
  I sure there's a fancy word in psychology, but it's like if everyone is given choice x automatically, then it shouldn't be a surprise that x seems to be what people prefer.
  I've noticed a similar thing in the Subway sandwich store: there are approximately the same number of vegetables and meats available, but if you look at the menu there is just one 'veggie' option, and a multitude of different meat combinations.
  
  You could, but the only reason to do so would be to accommodate a small minority's ethical dietary decisions, which is the opposite of a default.
  No one's going to chose the slop so there's no point in having it.
  As for subway, their menu is largely determined by sales. They do trial other options occasionally, and the ones that are popular stay.
  
  Here's the definition of default I'm using (from Google):
  a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer. (weird it specifies "a computer program or other mechanism", but whatever)
  My argument is that the default meal including meat is what makes including meat the most popular choice, not the other way around.
  
  It's not weird that it specifies a computer program, the use of the term to mean the standard option comes from computing. It's the value chosen when the computer defaults, as in fails to pay it's debt (in this case debt being the value it was looking for).
  I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that people prefer meat because it's the default option and not the other way around.

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