Vegetarianism

[pegkerr]

Here is an extremely interesting article about the history of the arguments underpinning vegetarianism:

Vegetarianism has always been less about why you should eat plants than about why you shouldn’t eat animals. And so arguments about vegetarianism, by drawing attention to rights that we claim for ourselves but deny to other animals, inevitably involve basic questions about what it is to be human.

Comments

[cathellisen.livejournal.com]

Awesome link, thanks!

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link! Very thought provoking.

I spent a couple years as a vegetarian, and these days I'll eat meat, but with reservations. It seems to me that the most 'natural' diet is one in which meat is a small or occasional part of a mostly vegetable cuisine - like most Asian diets. I'm sure that if I had to kill all my own meat I'd have much less of it.

Vegetarians

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'll read the article later, but the quote ignores quite a bit of vegetarian philosophy. There are religious vegetarians, moral vegetarians (wrong to eat animals), ethical vegetarians (inefficient food production to eat animals), health vegetarians, economic vegetarians, and probably more besides.

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Re: Vegetarians

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. And the article mentions those distinctions, too. The quote was (of course) just a quick snippet of a larger discussion.

Re: Vegetarians

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Okay, good. I'll print the essay for later reading the next time I am at a printer.

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