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Heh - that's funny. First: veganism does not protect against the vast majority of diseases. There's only a few. Furthermore, vegans are famous in medicine for
by candiodari 9y ago
Heh - that's funny.
First: veganism does not protect against the vast majority of diseases. There's only a few. Furthermore, vegans are famous in medicine for developing weird diseases. How ? They forget, in their diet, something essential, which often first results in reduced immune response, which results in a weird infection, which results in severe symptoms. And to add a cherry on that cake: when you start being vegan there are many things you can do without for years, so you can't easily compensate for it: the actual problem occurs many months to years after going vegan, and occurs very suddenly.
Vegan patients are also famous for not believing the diagnosis, and after specific pills fix the problems, they get released, start the same vegan regimen again, and have the same problem again months later, only usually worse.
Also, about screwing ... you realize this means that in 10 years or so screwing, having sex with multiple partners, will be like Russian roulette, right ? Almost all diseases are sexually transmittable and if a few dozen of the easier to transmit ones become incurable ...
- maxerickson 9y agoThey are talking about the use of antibiotics in livestock accelerating resistance.
- himom 9y agoAntibiotics combined with people and animals concentrated in confined areas are extremely bad ideas for both pandemic evolution and antibiotic-resistance.
- philipkglass 9y agoAntibiotics used in animal agriculture dwarf the quantities directly used to treat humans. I didn't read ianai as saying that veganism protects against disease, but saying "screw you" to livestock producers and their customers, who are risking these lifesaving drugs' efficacy in pursuit of lower-cost food from animals.
- ianai 9y agoI’m glad somebody got it. I’m fine leaving people be up to the point where their practices produce externalities which threaten or actively hurt me. Second hand and even third hand smoke are taken seriously and societal risk from overuse of antibiotics should be too.
- candiodari 9y agoI don't get it. So veganism is supposed to prevent this from happening how ? It happened. If your veganism was an attempt at preventing antibiotics resistance, it completely failed. And if the message is "it happened but I'm not to blame (and, implicitly, YOU are)" then all I'm going to say is ... I hope you enjoy it, because there is nothing that matters less. You're like a WWI soldier pointing out that he never shot any Austrian duke, as if that will stop a single bullet.