J.C. Scott wrote:
> Jay Santos wrote:
>
>>At Wikipedia:
>>
>> Those who avoid animal products for reasons of
>> health (eg, due to allergies, or to avoid
>> cholesterol), rather than compassion sometimes
>> describe themselves as "dietary vegans". However,
>> popular vegan author Joanne Stepaniak argues that
>> this term is inappropriate because veganism is by
>> definition about helping animals.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan
>
>
> I don't eat any animal products at all, and it's strictly for health
> reasons. In my own case, it has nothing to do with compassion for
> animals. In fact, I love hamburgers and chicken, among many other
> types of animal products, but due to the associated ill effects of such
> consumption, I abstain.

What "ill effects"?

> A person could label me vegetarian but that's
> too lax a term, in my opinion, because plenty of vegetarians continue
> to eat eggs and cheese, which I don't. My diet is extremely rigid.

So is your sense of semantics. Why do you insist on using *any* labels
if animal rights isn't a personal concern?

> If
> the debate is strictly over whether the term "dietary vegan" is valid,
> well, it's just trivial semantics, as far as I'm concerned anyway.

Then why do you consider "vegetarian" too lax a description of your diet?