I can provide studies that say otherwise it's generally well established that you can live a perfectly normal life on a vegan diet
I'm sure you can, but my point of contention was against the claim that "there's no excuse not to go vegan in the West."
I used to argue against it too because it sounds right from intuition but it's just not true to say it has detrimental health effects many of studies that say this are faulty.
I'm not talking about full grown adults who are already developed. I'm talking about foods you're evolved to eat and grow on. With enough money you can do a lot and can even pull a Bryan Johnson to slow down your aging.
Reminder that this particular argument against veganism is not specifically about eating meat, as the vegetarian diet allows for eggs and milk, which does allow for healthy development, but about the consumption of any kind of animal protein, the vast majority of which is meat. The arguments
for veganism can generally be extended to vegetarianism as well.
Also I don't think appealing to nature (fallacy) is the best thing to do here. We are humans. We change nature. The food you eat on a daily basis isn't natural. The way we are communicating right now isn't natural.
The real fallacy here is pretending that we're outside of nature and having the hubris to think we that we change nature (influence, yes, but not change). And yes, a lot of crap we eat daily isn't natural, which is why we've developed so many health and weight problems over the decades in the "civilized world." We're not meant to eat processed garbage loaded with chemicals that make us sick.
I'm sorry for the outburst, but when you hear/read someone say something so patently absurd when you shouldn't expect to them to it can easily make you (me) agitated.
Yes it minimizes suffering indeed and I never denied that. I was asking you if the act of killing itself can ever be humane.
The answer is yes, because "humane" refers to having the properties of mercy and compassion, which directly corresponds to the minimization of suffering. Your question isn't asking if killing itself can ever be "moral." That's a completely different question, since (abstractly)
properties are not
actions and vice versa, though actions always have properties.
Oof, I have a feeling the slippery slope this kind of thinking would create would be extremely destructive.
Yikes! Big oof!