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Later lives print abstinence from meat as a public ethical heading

Printed meat-abstinence is not a modern animal-welfare act. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Iamblichus English and later vegetarian receptions treat Pythagorean diet as kinship with animals. Low-confidence improving path: a printed limit on killing for food, as later readers used it, not a 6th-century farm statute.

Context

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed meat-abstinence is not a modern animal-welfare act.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.19 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — PythagorasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactLater lives print abstinence from meat as a public ethical heading
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Later lives print abstinence from meat as a public ethical heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-vegetarian-later-ethics

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-vegetarian-later-ethics

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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