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SB's avatar

Errr - I'm an ethical vegan (and have been for many years). I am certainly not young! I was once a veterinarian, then an epidemiologist, then a scientific editor specializing in medical texts, so I know quite a lot about physiology (many species), medicine, nutrition and animal welfare (and indeed the WHO...). I have indeed worked in slaughterhouses, and on livestock farms, but that was before I became vegan. Please don't make generalizations.

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I am so tired of people telling everyone how to eat. As though one size fits all FOREVER.

Yes, quality of the food is essential -- which has everything to do with how it's raised and grown. So it's not really a good comparison when Industrial mono-culture agriculture is pitted against local, grass-fed animals.

Here's a quote from my piece, "Freedom from Foodogma:"

"Vegan? Paleo? Keto? Lion? Omnivore? The answer will always be: it depends.

What are you trying to achieve? Are you looking for healing? Is your illness acute or chronic? How old are you? Are you breastfeeding? What kind of work do you do? Do you live in a warm or cold climate? Is it summer or winter? Where are your ancestors from?

Then there’s the food itself: what is the quality of it; where and how was it grown? Factory farmed or biodynamic? Was it processed? Is it canned, frozen, cooked? If it was an animal, what kind of life did it have? What kind of death did it have? I could go on and on..."

https://marypoindextermclaughlin.substack.com/p/freedom-from-foodogma-the-food-wars

Each unique individual needs something different, at different times of the year, to do different activities, and at different stages of life. A vegan diet might serve someone who needs it for healing; ditto carnivore. And the way to figure out what is best for one's own body is to LISTEN TO THE BODY, rather than listen to everyone else, and make adjustments based on what the body is telling you. Haven't we all had enough experts telling us what to think and do?

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