It's too bad that the reactions to this article are so quickly approached as if it's a wholesale indictment of plant-based diets. Maybe it doesn't mean that veg

It's too bad that the reactions to this article are so quickly approached as if it's a wholesale indictment of plant-based diets. Maybe it doesn't mean that veganism should be immediately stopped worldwide. Maybe it means there's opportunities to optimize what is already a mostly good thing. The fact that an individual poster is vegan and, in his opinion, "is fine" is obviously not useful. The fact that hundreds of millions of people in India are to some extent mostly plant based and are are "Ok" is not useful because a) they are not necessarily 100% plant based and b) what is the definition of "Ok"? They continue to live obviously but who's to say they can't be better? There are plenty of negative characteristics of Indian health - as there are for any population - that could be correlated. If there is a causal link found, maybe it would prolong life and/or life quality. The assertion that the writer is funded by big meat is not useful. If someone says the sky is blue, the first thing to do is look at the sky to see if it's blue - not question whether or not the speaker is paid by the pro-blue sky lobby. It's unfortunate to see cultural movements smother science. I'm not saying that this article is science or is even correct science. But until a rational discussion is allowed that even allows such an evaluation we can't know.