This paper describes a pair of dietary practices I label default vegetarianism and default veganism. The basic idea is that one adopts a default of adhering to vegetarian and vegan diets, with periodic exceptions. While I do not exhaustively defend either of these dietary practices as morally required, I do suggest that they are more promising than other dietary practices that are normally discussed like strict veganism and vegetarianism. For they may do a better job of striking a balance between normative concerns about contemporary farming practices and competing considerations of life. Additionally, I argue that framing discussions in terms of defaults is useful for various reasons: it helps organize agreements and disagreements, it more accurately reflects the way people conceptualize their dietary practices, and it presents a more dialectically effective view.

本文描述了我标记默认素食主义和默认素食主义的一对饮食习惯. 基本思想是，人们默认坚持素食和纯素饮食，定期例外。虽然我没有按照道德要求详尽地捍卫这些饮食习惯中的任何一种，但我确实建议它们比通常讨论的其他饮食习惯（如严格的素食主义和素食主义）更有希望。因为他们可能会更好地在对当代农业实践的规范关注和对生活的竞争考虑之间取得平衡。此外，我认为根据默认情况进行讨论很有用，原因有很多：它有助于组织协议和分歧，它更准确地反映了人们对他们的饮食习惯进行概念化的方式，它提出了一种更有效的辩证观点。