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This old study may only underscore people generally don't measure their diet or pay attention to nutrition in order to avoid preventable conditions of their own
by cat-dev-null 11y ago
This old study may only underscore people generally don't measure their diet or pay attention to nutrition in order to avoid preventable conditions of their own fault: balanced, limited caloric intake and essential vitamin sufficiency. Maybe a few readers desire to feel superior for lazy, carbon- and methane-intensive lifestyles, but that's likely only a small minority. There are healthy meat eaters and healthy vegans.
As an anecdotal sample size of 1, I've eliminated meat for many years now and my cholesterol numbers are outstanding... vitamins including B12 are all fine considering the variety of bioavailable sources in my diet. I only take high-quality fish oil, that's it. Works for me, YMMV.
- noondip 11y agoCheck out videos about fish oil supplements on http://nutritionfacts.org http://nutritionfacts.org. I took them for a while, but have since realized algae oil is a much safer source of EPA-DHA. Even krill oil would be an improvement.
- nikolay 11y agoThat site you link to is a vegan propaganda site. It only has selective studies that back its not-so-hidden agenda!
- noondip 11y agoExactly who stands to gain from a vegan agenda, do you think? Big Broccoli? Dr. Greger Super Pills Inc.?
- mindslight 11y agoThe fish that vegans don't want harvested for their oil.
- nikolay 11y agoUnfortunately, vegans kill a lot more animals by replacing forests and grasslands with monocultures and most importantly - they kill wild animals, where omnivores kill reproducible farm animals only... that wouldn't otherwise exist anyway!
- noondip 11y agoSo you mean to say the mass production of corn and soy as animal feed is not an example of crop monoculture? Also, how do vegans "kill wild animals" - and are you so sure they do so in numbers of over 150 billion per year, as does modern animal agriculture? I think you are confused. Wildlife suffers mostly from the collateral damage of meat production - deforestation, drought, pollution, climate change, etc. Definitely check out documentaries such as Cowspiracy if you are not convinced, or just search around. Here's something I found about Amazon deforestation: > A 2009 Greenpeace report found that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon, supported by the international beef and leather trades, was responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[3] or about 14% of the world’s total annual deforestation, making it the largest single driver of deforestation in the world.[4] According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, is used for livestock pasture.[5][19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
- qrendel 11y agoExactly this. Animal agriculture necessarily kills far more animals than crops since you have to grow significantly more crops to feed livestock in the first place. Meat does not just magically appear without having been fed. Not only that, but in addition to the unpaid negative externalities of meat production (e.g. climate change, deforestation, health problems), the price of meat is kept artificially low through subsidies for corn and soybean produced as animal feed.
- nikolay 11y ago