Vegetarianism & Gnosticism

Commonweal August 9, 2010 - 11:38am

THE AMINO ACID TEST

Bernard G. Prusak’s review of Andrew Linzey’s Why Animal Suffering Matters (“Humane Society?” July 16) cites Nina Planck’s observation that “animal proteins and fats...contain all the essential amino acids needed for life in the right ratio,” as well as Robert P. Heaney’s argument that “we need to eat animals…because they provide what is essential for our...

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