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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Or the vegetarian who still uses dairy? Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Keith: As a historian or even an anthropologist, one could make the argument that being a vegetarian limits one's ability to understand other cultures. I, like you, am not a complete vegetarian. In other words, there are moral limits to science, as to law. In fact, my diet is worse, but I do justify my eating habits.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif., David Peters New York, Nov.