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Re: Eating an oyster as bad as eating a cow?
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:23 am
by PsYcHo
fredericlavender wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:32 am
If you are going to eat an oyster, you may as well eat meat.
Hello fredericlavender,
Wouldn't it be less harmful overall for someone to eat an oyster rather than veal? Just in terms of overall, identifiable suffering?
Re: Eating an oyster as bad as eating a cow?
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:49 am
by fredericlavender
Sorry, less harmful to who? The animal, the person eating it or to the environment?
Re: Eating an oyster as bad as eating a cow?
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 2:13 pm
by carnap
The vegan position on oysters is really rooted in religious ideology. Veganism has roots in religious thinking, it was derived from western vegetarianism which was imported from eastern religion into the west. This thinking was imported into the west prior to major achievements in biology so the ideas weren't as anti-scientific as they are today. What is surprising is that the ideas have persistent for so long despite numerous advancements in biology. But there is a name for that sort of thing, namely, dogma.