(11-04-2015, 11:31 AM)Bring4th_GLB Wrote: It would be one thing if ones personal diet was strictly a personal choice that extended no further than the end of their rectum. Each could then go merrily about eating this thing or that, and no other person would need to make a fuss about whether they ate that thing, or this thing – even if their eating habits lead to the demise of their own health.
But so far as I understand, our individual, seemingly personal diets have impacts upon, and consequences for, the whole.
While I think individual rights are paramount, I also think they must be balanced against the the responsibility to the health/well-being of the whole.
If twenty people are on a boat together with limited food rations, their fates contingent upon each other, I don't think it a personal choice for a few people to go hog wild on the rations at the expense of everyone's survival.
Likewise, if a portion of the meat-crazy world is causing our global village to live in an unsustainable way upon the planet, I think it well and good to raise awareness strongly upon the issue.
Very well said.