I’ve already written at length on this over the past few years on my blog, and I’ve just made a comment on Erin’s post over on She Cooks, She Gardens, which may respond to some of your points. I’ll try to follow along as the discussion continues, but I fly in a couple hours to Oregon, so will be out of touch for a bit!

I think this really clarifies the discussion. We believe that we should be flexible, but only to a point. It shows great weakness in people, me included. The same of dog or whale. In the west we constantly screw up our noses at people who eat these species. Yet, we’ll quite happily play along with cultural relativism until it gets a little too uncomfortable.

I’m a vegan for ethical reasons. I have taken food that has contained animal products for the reason of not wanting it to go to waste. I agree that it is flawed logic, because I wouldn’t do the same with meat–I couldn’t go that far. Thanks for allowing me to adjust my position.