Vegan woman dies of altitude sickness on Mount Everest trying to prove "vegans can do anything"

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134. Eat what you want, with my best regards.

Just keep your diet to yourself.

Again, it's the behavior. They not only don't eat meat, they want nobody else to eat meat either.

That is a rather big problem. For instance, what does one do with all the cows? They cannot live in the wild because they are domesticated. There's all that animal husbandry over thousands of years which gave rise to today's domesticated cows.

Now one can make ethical arguments about not eating meat, and that is part of why I eat a lot less of it at my age. I suggest that you look up Temple Grandin, a rather awesome person who is an academic at the height of such ethical questions.

But I am not the vegan's enemy here, except maybe to point out when one climbs Mount Everest in advocacy for a vegan diet, that might not be a very good idea.

Your best argument is ethical treatment of animals. Stick with that. It's the one that convinces. Ditch the health claims -- no educated person thinks vegans aren't healthy (I reserve that ridicule to the fruitarians and breathairians) -- especially if one is using it to justify climbing one of the 14 8,000 meter summits, all fucking dangerous, all in the Himalayas.

My whole point here is that you are not at all helping your case with that argument.

And yes, my best to you.