Varner, Gary E. "Rejoinder to Kathryn Paxton George," Journal of Agricultural and
Environmental Ethics 7 (1994): pp. 83-86.
In "Use and Abuse Revisited: Response to Pluhar and Varner", Kathryn
Paxton George misunderstands the point of my essay, "In Defense of the
Vegan Ideal: Rhetoric and Bias in the Nutrition Literature". I did not
claim that the nutrition literature unambiguously confirms that vegans
are not at significantly greater risk of deficiencies than omnivores.
Rather than settling any empirical controversy, my aim was to show how
the literature can give the causal reader a skewed impression of what is
known about the risks of a vegan diet. In this brief rejoinder, I
illustrate how two essays by nutritionists in the same volume as
George's and my essays, and a referee's report on my manuscript which
was authorized by a nutritionist, confirm the soundness of this basic
insight.