I eat oysters but am otherwise vegan. The reason I didn’t just go with standard veganism is something like the more general arguments in this post. I had my reasons for nitpicking the details of this post; rationalists should learn some science and thereby be less wrong than the rest of the cultic milieu. But I want to comment again to focus on the positive: this post was a great reminder that I’m not a real vegan and why, and I’ve been making more of an effort to get oysters since reading it.
One of my criticisms of this original post is that with the vegan diet there can be uncertainty over what you may be missing on a vegan diet, but with a lot of animal food there is uncertainty over what you may be getting, and for me there are many concerns about pollutants in oysters. I would prefer a vegan multivitamin.
I eat oysters but am otherwise vegan. The reason I didn’t just go with standard veganism is something like the more general arguments in this post. I had my reasons for nitpicking the details of this post; rationalists should learn some science and thereby be less wrong than the rest of the cultic milieu. But I want to comment again to focus on the positive: this post was a great reminder that I’m not a real vegan and why, and I’ve been making more of an effort to get oysters since reading it.
One of my criticisms of this original post is that with the vegan diet there can be uncertainty over what you may be missing on a vegan diet, but with a lot of animal food there is uncertainty over what you may be getting, and for me there are many concerns about pollutants in oysters. I would prefer a vegan multivitamin.