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In Defence of the Vegan Project

Lookup NU author(s): Mx Jan Deckers

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Abstract

The vegan project is defined as the project that strives for radical legal reform to pass laws that would reserve the consumption of animal products to a very narrow range of situations, resulting in vegan diets being the default diets for the majority of human beings. Two objections that have been raised against such a project are described. The first is that such a project would jeopardise the nutritional adequacy of human diets. The second is that it would alienate human beings from nature. It is argued that neither undermines the vegan project.

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Author(s): Deckers J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Year: 2013

Volume: 10

Issue: 2

Pages: 187-195

Print publication date: 01/06/2013

Online publication date: 21/03/2013

Date deposited: 15/02/2018

ISSN (print): 1176-7529

ISSN (electronic): 1872-4353

Publisher: Springer

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-013-9428-9

DOI: 10.1007/s11673-013-9428-9

Notes: This article is an expanded version of a paper presented at the Newcastle Animal Ethics and Sustainable Food Policy conference (held at Newcastle University on December 2, 2011), which addressed the following question: “How should the U.K. Government regulate the consumption of animal products?” Presentations of the conference were recorded and can be downloaded, together with their PowerPoint slides, from http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/12/animal-ethics-and-sustainable-food-policy-a-minding-animals-international/

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