Sentence examples for moral diet from inspiring English sources

David Brooks ("A Moral Diet," column, June 8) rightly asks, "Is this life of minor transgressions refreshingly realistic, given our natures, or is it settling for mediocrity?" One prominent ethical system — the Talmud — provides an answer that speaks directly to realism and our basic human nature.

Whether you've eliminated an item from your diet on moral grounds or you just really, really don't like it, it's important not to stretch the truth.

Today many vegetarian societies and animal rights groups publish vegetarian recipes and other information on what they consider to be the health and environmental benefits and the moral virtues of a fleshless diet.

I modestly propose that a new Great Depression is exactly what America needs to wake ourselves up, put some moral fiber back in our diet, and give us some breathing room so we can catch up to the rest of the world again.

In this construct, moral life is more like dieting: I give myself permission to have a few cookies because I had salads for lunch and dinner.

Our diets become a moral issue when this is the food culture we foster, and gluten is just the start of it.

We believe that because we love dogs as pets, it is our moral duty to deprive others of a diet that they have enjoyed for more than 2,000 years.

A fat person on a diet sends a social and moral message, said Charlotte Biltekoff, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis who researches food and cultural values.

We are constantly inundated with messages about dieting, and expected to attach moral value to "good" or "bad" foods.

But to imagine the solution to climate change is to advance some sort of moral imperatives imploring people to change their diets is to start from the wrong end; it is to start from the individual.

Advice about diet and exercise often has a moral undertone; surgery has a mechanistic one.