And some vegans won't eat certain vegetables because of the insect life they harbour - onions in particular - and some won't eat plants that propagate by shoots (root veg, potato) as they each contain the possibility of many souls.
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If I were going to restrict my diet for ethical reasons, veganism is the best way to go. Vegetarians, who eat milk and cheese, worry me - what do they think happens to the baby animal that milk was destined for? VEAL, that's what happens.
If one is going to worry about the collateral death or suffering of animals one isn't eating or wearing, then vegans would pretty much have to give up on anything grown by mechanized farming as well: apparently the death toll by combine harvester can be fairly horrific. (Though even an animal-drawn plow is likely to reap a bloody harvest in field mice, earthworms, moles, shrews, and assorted insects, *and* it exploits the horses/oxen.) And farming that employs pesticides is presumably right out. But even organic farming has its potential moral failings -- blood-, bone-, and fish-meal fertilizers depend on the deaths of animals, obviously. And manure as fertilizer will presumably be coming from exploited animals. And so on and so forth.
And none of it, presuming one can find any morally correct food, may be eaten off of bone china without treyfing the whole deal after all.
Quite. I will happily support vegetarians and vegans who have made that choice on health grounds, but the ethical argument has always seemed rather unconvincing and inconsistent for the reasons you give.
As an aside, I really don't understand near-carnivores (and I've known a couple) who refuse to eat anything *but* meat because they don't like vegetables. That's just barmy!
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Date: 2006-03-02 11:40 pm (UTC)(Jainism)
If I were going to restrict my diet for ethical reasons, veganism is the best way to go. Vegetarians, who eat milk and cheese, worry me - what do they think happens to the baby animal that milk was destined for? VEAL, that's what happens.
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Date: 2006-03-03 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-03 12:19 am (UTC)And none of it, presuming one can find any morally correct food, may be eaten off of bone china without treyfing the whole deal after all.
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Date: 2006-03-03 09:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-04 08:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-05 09:12 pm (UTC)As an aside, I really don't understand near-carnivores (and I've known a couple) who refuse to eat anything *but* meat because they don't like vegetables. That's just barmy!