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Good points. I will note that according to the article I dug up at the end of my post, PETA sent some sort of preparatory materials, which presumably include a list of vegan foods, some recipes, etc. No details given about that.

You are all generally right that being vegan is almost impossible for someone who is poor, but even if the language said "vegetarian," I suspect you would still disagree on principle. That's what I'm trying to understand.

    (There is also the distinction that no one here is arguing that the assistance be made illegal, we're only debating the ethical (moral?) side of it)

True. I would like to register the opinion, which I haven't put enough thought into probably, that no voluntary contract can be immoral in the sense that you mean it. (That is, you can voluntarily contract to kill someone, which is immoral, but the immorality isn't in the contract, like everyone seems to be saying it is in this scenario, it's in the action.)