USE AND ABUSE REVISITED - REJOINDER Academic Article

abstract

• In "Use and Abuse Revisited: Response to Pluhar and Varner," Kathryn Paxton George misunderstands the point of my essay, "In Defense of the Vegan Ideal: Rhetoric and Bias in the Nutrition Literature." I did not claim that the nutrition literature unambiguously confirms that vegans are not at significantly greater risk of deficiencies than omnivores. Rather than settling any empirical controversy, my aim was to show how the literature can give the casual reader a skewed impression of what is known about the risks of a vegan diet. In this brief rejoinder, I illustrate how two essays by nutritionists in the same volume as George's and my essays, and a referee's report on my manuscript which was authored by a nutritionist, confirm the soundness of this basic insight. 1994 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.

authors

• Varner, Gary

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

author list (cited authors)

• VARNER, G. E.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• VARNER, GE

publication date

• March 1994

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Journal of agricultural ethics  Journal

keywords

• 50 Philosophy And Religious Studies
• 5001 Applied Ethics
• Nutrition

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF01997225

start page

• 83

end page

• 86

volume

• 7

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01997225