there's more to life than books, you know

Word. I guess I think of it as one way to eat more consciously and withdraw yr complicity from various inefficient/inhumane means of food production. But that doesn't mean that I think veganism/vegetarianism=Ethical, and eating meat=unethical. Also I am bothered by the idea, which I used to hold when I became vegetarian when I was 14, that it's a really effective way of disrupting/redirecting an entirely fucked up distribution of resources (the whole, '40 acres of grain that's used to feed oxen that produce x pounds of meat that gets into the mouths of y people who can afford to eat meat'thing). It is one very small way of attempting that, yeah. But the structural inequalities around food are a lot more complicated.

I also think veganism sometimes (not always) rests on these weird concepts of nature and human animals' place in it. But I digress.

Also, I hope that whatever yr "weird deficiency" is, that you've been healthy and happy to boot.