"Rupert" > wrote in message
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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
>> >> cost
>> >> 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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>> Which 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?

I am suggesting that it is completely plausible that substituting some of
the calories in your meal with some free range organic chicken presents a
meal that falls within a range of environmental impacts that any reasonable
person would call acceptable.

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

You said that is is better for her health to be a vegetarian. That is not
the same as saying that a vegetarian diet as selected by your doctor is an
excellent choice for your health.

The second second statement is, with some conditions, supportable, the first
is not, it is too categorical, broad and poorly defined to be correct.