With all the hype about becoming vegans, an important fact always seems to get lost…
there’s a reason why every human society in history of mankind has depended on meat or at the very least diary products: a Vegan diet is not adequate in the long run.
Case in point, a New York Times story about Vegans yesterday. The story recounts the story of Crown Shakur:
“WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty.”
The story goes on to discuss why a vegan diet is inadequate especially for babies, which I happen to agree with completely.
Vegans may think they are doing the right thing, but any extreme– whether its eating only meat or no meat products– is usually not a good course of action. Moderation and balance are usually the key. Or is that way too logical and sound minded for most of you?
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Are you kidding? I would consider doing your research carefully before agreeing with Nina Planck on anything especially since she herself failed to do a lot of research when writing that piece. She is trying to appear altruistic by pretending she is truly concerned with people’s diets. In truth, she is only concerned with publicizing her book. She saw a tragedy (the death of the infant) and decided to use it to her advantage. It wasn’t veganism that killed that baby, it was negligence. If you consulted any *good* nutritionist, they would tell you that a person can obtain all the nutrients they needed to sustain a healthy life from a plant based diet. Many would tell you that a plant based diet is healthier for you than the average human omnivore’s diet. Given this, which is more extreme?
(1) Growing plants and eating them.
OR
(2) Growing 6 times as much plants to feed livestock which are confined, tortured (not to mention contribute to massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions) and then slaughtered just because it “tastes” good?
You do the math.