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On Mar 3, 10:05*am, "Dutch" > wrote:
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> > On Mar 2, 10:34 pm, "Dutch" > wrote:
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> >> > 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

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> >> Or better, with respect to health AND negative impact on animals.

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> >> > but you haven't given
> >> > her practical guidance about any specific such choice.

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

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

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Well, I ate potato gnocchi with tofu and lentils and carrots the other
night, are you suggesting that I would have been better off with a
local free-range organic chicken, from the point of view of animal
suffering?

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

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> >> Its one strategy, however it carries the risk of nutritional deficiencies
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> >> some people, and it tends to lead to the dreaded "holier than thou"
> >> syndrome. If those pitfalls can be avoided then it has advantages.

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> >> > It's also better
> >> > for her health to be vegetarian than not.

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> >> Clearly categorically false.

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

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> That's not what you said.


The distinction is lost on me, I'm sorry.