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Former good articleVeganism was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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July 18, 2007Good article nomineeListed
October 14, 2007Good article reassessmentDelisted
January 20, 2013Good article nomineeNot listed
Current status: Delisted good article


Davis and Regan

In "Debate about animals killed in crop harvesting", Steven Davis certainly seems to misunderstand and thus misrepresent Regan's position on minimizing harm to animals. In The Case for Animal Rights, beginning on p. 302, Regan devotes considerable space to explaining why he rejects what he calls the "minimize harm principle" (i.e., the utilitarian position that Davis attributes to him). So I propose deleting Davis's claim that Regan has a utilitarian position on this issue (Regan has frequently explained why his rights position is incompatible with utilitarianism), while retaining reference to Davis's claim that "a plant-based diet would kill more than one containing beef from grass-fed ruminants." Scales (talk) 20:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

Dodgy citation

There is a citation [1] that is nearly all about vegetarianism. If it doesn't address veganism specifically, it can't be used to make claims about vegan diets, IRWolfie- (talk) 21:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Several studies use "vegetarian" to mean plant-based diet, i.e. strict vegetarian (as the text says). You have to read the study to know how they're using it, and when they don't specify they tend to mean plant-based diet. The one you removed seems to be about plant-based diets, given the point about low consumption of saturated fat. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Aren't you kind of assuming? I wouldn't think it refers to veganism; vegetarians undoubtedly eat more vegetables on average than omnivores. IRWolfie- (talk) 23:45, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Biased Article

It seems to me that this article is biased, especially in it's section about health effects. There are *plenty* of counter-arguments, one need only look for them; and yet there is not mention of that fact.

68.199.204.112 (talk) 22:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]