On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:01:42 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote:

by definition it has to be less full and varied than the diet of someone
who
can eat everything you can plus meat products etc

Jim Webster


Not necessarily. The meat-eater might live on BigMacs and nothing
else, while the vegan scoffs an enormous variety of veg and fruit.

so what, a vegan could live of rice and beans.
by definition, a diet that excludes major food stuffs has to be more limited
than one that includes t

No, Jim, it doesn't, as I've just illustrated. You can have very
limited omnivorous diets, and you can have very varied vegan diets.
The definition 'omnivore' doesn't give you a clue about the variety of
any given omnivore's diet; nor does the definition 'vegan' give any
indication of variety.
I take it you mean *potentially* more varied, but that's another
matter.

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Paul


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