Deep ecology is essentially the belief that we should learn to live in harmony with nature and connect with the earth, and the idea that all life forms, including humans, deserve equal rights, thus embracing a rejection of anthropocentricism. Nowhere in the philosophy of deep ecology does it say, or is implied, that a deep ecologist should be a vegetarian. To be both a vegetarian and a deep ecologist would actually be to find oneself in a contradictory position, as there are several opposing ideas within the two ideologies.
Generally, one chooses to be a vegetarian for ethical, ascetic or…
