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Do Ex-Vegans’ Stories Make the Case Against Vegan Diets?
- jamesbritt 16y agoThe plural of anecdote ... Such stories, for or against this or that diet, may be handy insofar as they bring to light current research or practices, but it's the scientific data, not the stories, that make or break a case.
- mattdw 16y agoEspecially considering the selection bias of using "people who have given up diet X" to judge "diet X."
- robryan 16y agoWeird that I find myself agreeing along when reading both the pro and anti vegan accounts, as you say these 2 anecdotes could be both right in aspects but without any hard data that attempts to remove extraneous variables (from all the nutritional claims and counter claims I've read this is very hard to do) it's merely going around in circles.
- preek 16y agoGreat article. An intelligent conversation over different kind of arguments made by carnivorous and vegan people. Overall, an enlightening read. Thank you for sharing.
- ehutch79 16y agoyou know, the few vegans i've met might as well have been fanatics. so it does hold up that they'd willfully eat themselves into an unhealthy situation. That said, I've met way more people who called themselves vegan who surely were not. after all, lots of things that arn't immediately apparent are not vegan. the biggie for the wannabes was beer. the militant vegans i knew when i was a kid swore it was not vegan. Also I was at a vegan bbq onces (isn't that an oxymoron) and I swear it smelt like burnt tires. that can not be healthy for anyone.