Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[James2014]

No. Values of one might seem more pursuasive to others if it is seen to be expressed and applied logically and consistently. But pursuasiveness to others may not form an important part of the value in the first place, in which case there is no compelling reason why it must either be logical and consistent, or be amenable to being expressed or applied logically and consistently.

I said nothing about values themselves being logical, I am talking about application. For example consider a person who values nature and therefore only eats organic food because it is natural, and further believes that doing anything unnatural, such as eating non organic food, is always wrong. If that person were then to the believe taking medicine is good, they would be inconsistent, and therefore one of their beliefs must be logically incorrect.

Don't impudently use the word must when it is trivial to show how easily it mustn't.

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Since you have done nothing of the kind, I think I will continue to make that argument. If one values the reduction of suffering as one's primary ethical concern then one must not eat eat.

The fact that animals also suffer in nature in irrelevant. The suffering that would be reduced by not eating meat vastly overwhelms any suffering that would be caused by stopping people eating meat. Eating meat is cruel and should be stopped.

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