How the radical history of plant-based eating illuminates our future (msn.com)
Reality check: The Accidental Vegetarian – Coldstreams
The media has become an activist group promoting the end of eating meat – yet very few people eat plants-only, and the percent who eat plant-based has been in decline the past 2 decades (see here). These stories ignore actual health dangers (as I experienced) of cutting out meat from your diet. See my post for details. Promoting a vegan or vegetarian diet without explaining the dangers is reckless reporting. You cannot casually stop eating meat – you must discuss with your doctor, discuss with a dietician, and have blood nutrient levels periodically checked. This is not a joke (read my story to learn what happened to me). Becoming an accidental vegetarian cost me thousands of dollars out of pocket for medical tests that ultimately failed to find the cause of my health problems – I eventually figured it out on my own, and hundreds of dollars more of testing confirmed the findings.
The story above agrees that very few people eat vegan or vegetarian, and the percent is not increasing. But implies this is a U.S. phenomenon, but this is true globally as well.
Advocates claim it is a growing trend: Why Veganism Is More Than Just a Trend: The Cultural Shift Towards Compassionate Living (msn.com). It’s not, and that is media disinformation that this is a “growing” way of eating – at least it says that some will have to take manufactured protein supplements …
Some advocates for veganism/vegetarianism are in a culture of perpetual outrage and say eating meat is caused by:
- Racism
- Colonialism
- Capitalism
- Exploitation of workers
- Apartheid
- Industrialized agriculture (that fewer people today go hungry is a bad thing, apparently)
- There should be no profit in food production (because no profit will incentivize more healthy food?)
Throughout history, fresh fruit and vegetables have been available to everyone, year around, regardless of where you live, but they chose to eat meat because they were racist, white supremacists exploiting the working classes (/satire). People ate meat because of that – in the 1700s, they could have flash frozen veggies and stored them in their freezers, of course (/satire).
This is why today, advocates push for “eat local” – which makes sense in California, Florida, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The rest of us can go hungry in winter.
The proponent of the above lives in Puerto Rico – a year-round, warm climate where the growing season is 12 months of the year. She has no idea that locally grown food (other than meat) is not available half the year or more in most of North America without intensive operations (heated greenhouses, frozen foods, long distance transportation).
A vegan dietician notes to eat vegan you must take artificial supplements and use an app or spreadsheet to track your food intake, or risk health problems: I’m a dietitian who follows a vegan diet. Here are the four mistakes people make when they go vegan. (msn.com) – this is one of the few honest articles on the subject.
It’s so natural you need expert advice: How To Go Vegan Without Hurting Your Health, According To Doctors (msn.com) – that article claims 6% eat vegan which is more than the combined vegan + vegetarian number found by Gallop in ’23! Hah! Also fails to note that most people who do this, eventually give up.
YOU CANNOT CASUALLY BECOME A VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN – SEE THE COMMENTS FROM THE VEGAN DIETICIAN, LINKED ABOVE. AGAIN, IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THIS, NOTIFY YOUR DOCTOR, CONSULT WITH A DIETICIAN AND HAVE YOUR BLOOD CHEMISTRY CHECKED AT LEAST ANNUALLY.
