Discrediting: A credible organization studied the product and said it was bad and false
An inductive generalization is hasty when the sample upon which the generalization is based is too small. Now, recent estimates place the number of vegetarians in the United States at around 10 million, with a similar number in the United Kingdom. There are many more millions of vegetarians around the world. This is not a small sample. Additionally, these millions of vegetarians come from both sexes, all stages of life, and a wide variety of ethnic, cultural, and sO'cio-economic backgrounds. They are a diverse as well as a large sample. But are these people healthy? Books advocating vegetarianism cite numerous, recent, scientific studies indicating they are. Common sensically, it is difficult to believe that tens of millions of people would voluntarily continue with a diet they found adversely affected their health. But that is what vegetarians who have the option of eating meat are doing and have been doing for many years, even generations. Indeed, my experience has been that the majority of American vegetarians are "health vegetarians" rather than "ethical vegetarians;" that is, most American vegetarians are vegetarians because they find that diet to be healthier for them. Consequently, although no inductive generalization could "prove," in some conclusive, deductive sense, that every person would find a vegetarian diet healthy, the generalization from the number of health vegetarians to the conclusion that "a vegetarian diet is adequate for human nutrition" is a reliable one. The considerable amount of empirical evidence for that generalization puts a considerable burden of proof on those, like Weir, who wish to deny the adequacy of a vegetarian diet. That burden is not met by his fallacious charge of fallacious reasoning.^-^
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