"Rupert" > wrote in message
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> 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?

Which 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.

That's not what you said.