Vegans kill animals too

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 14 11:27:38 PST 2002


Kendall Clark wrote:


>Easily avoidable animal suffering aside, a vegetarian diet is pretty
>widely conceded to be more healthy for its consumer than a meat-rich
>diet. Surely there's *some* moral value in maximizing one's own
>health?

Moral value? I don't know, why should health be a moral value in itself? Does that make the sick guilty of some transgression against morality? That makes me a bit nervous (though I don't want to bring up the Nazis, so as not to upset Gordon).

Doug



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