Thread: What to eat
View Single Post
  #18 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,alt.food.vegan,misc.rural
Rupert Rupert is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,380
Default What to eat

On Mar 2, 10:34*pm, "Dutch" > wrote:
> "Rupert" > wrote
>
> > I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility that there might be some
> > dietary choices she might make which are not vegetarian and yet are
> > nevertheless just as good as a vegetarian diet

>
> Or better, with respect to health AND negative impact on animals.
>
> > but you haven't given
> > her practical guidance about any specific such choice.

>
> Buy local, buy organic. A free range organic chicken from a local farmer
> arguably supplies more nutrition per calorie at a lower environmental cost
> than an equivalent amount of imported and/or processed plant-based product,
> vegetables or fruit.
>


You think a local free range organic chicken involves less harm than
plant foods?

> > In the absence
> > of specific practical advice going vegetarian is a good strategy for
> > her to reduce her contribution to animal suffering.

>
> Its one strategy, however it carries the risk of nutritional deficiencies in
> some people, and it tends to lead to the dreaded "holier than thou"
> syndrome. If those pitfalls can be avoided then it has advantages.
>
> > It's also better
> > for her health to be vegetarian than not.

>
> Clearly categorically false.


Wrong. Two doctors have told me that being a vegetarian is an
excellent choice for my health.