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This is some of why it is important to distinguish moral food specifications from health-related specification: it takes work for me to eat out anywhere that isn't exclusively vegetarian because meat contamination makes me ill, and restaurants don't understand that, for example, labeling things "vegetarian" when they are fried in the same oil as meat is misleading. Sometimes the grill is well-cleaned and it is fine, and then other times I am in for a night of misery and it's just not worth the risk.


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Bingo! This is basically my problem -> I am a human detector of certain animal proteins in my food, if I ingest them my immune system gets angry. I can't be "oh its fine" about certain things in/ob my food so I tend to like vegan options.

I stopped eating meat for ethical reasons, and after a couple of decades it makes me ill, presumably because my gut flora no longer tolerates it. So any reason to not eat meat can become a health-related specification, given time.

From the sounds of it I'm nowhere near as sensitive to it as you and bifrost.


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