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--- Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What I have difficulty understanding is someone
> becoming vegetarian in order to lower methane
> emission (from cattle) and thus prevent global
> warming. Talk about ideologies.......
>
Hi Mervyn,
Since Frederick chose to misinterpret the note of
caution that I had sounded, let me make it clear that
the issue is neither why nor whether one should become
a vegetarian, as a matter of personal choice. The
issue is simply whether to uncritically accept the
propaganda that a vegetarian diet is always healthy.
Frederick's remark below now also raises some other
serious questions:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It doesn't matter to me whether it's healthier or
> not... but I'd like to believe that it is healthier
>to the planet and to the lives of the many animals we
>otherwise simply 'consume'. Whether this belief is
>true or not, I'd like to believe in it, and since it
>doesn't demonstrably hurt anybody, why shouldn't I?
>
Would he actively try to convert others e.g. his child
to vegetarianism without caring to find out whether it
is healthier or not?
In preaching his ideology to others would he also tell
them, as he himself does, to disregard scientific
facts about potential benefits and harms of a
vegetarian diet?
If we don't want our beliefs to hurt anybody we have
an obligation to ensure that they are not harmful
before recommending them to others.
Cheers,
Santosh
