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You can't fully replace meat nutritionally? Any source for this assertion?

• mschuster91 14y ago
  At least not in child nutrition, unfortunately the only usable reference which is not vegan propaganda I could find are in German (http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ernaehrung/gesundessen/tid-21186/vegetarisch-leben-vegan-eignet-sich-nicht-fuer-kinder_aid_595804.html http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ernaehrung/gesundessen/tid-21... and http://www.dge.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1150 http://www.dge.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&#38...). TL;DR: It is extremely difficult to sustain the needs of a child with a pure vegetarian/vegan diet.
  • rosser 14y ago
    Anecdata, but I know a woman who's never, in her entire life, not been a vegetarian, and she's probably the healthiest person I've ever met. It's easier than you think.
  • justin66 14y ago
    > TL;DR: It is extremely difficult to sustain the needs of a child with a pure vegetarian/vegan diet. Tripe. I think people forget that even with the naive diet pyramids a lot of us grew up with, eggs (rightly) were counted as meats. It's been well understood for a long time how to function without eating meat, as in, the flesh of animals, if you have eggs available as part of your diet. Pure veganism requires some actual thought, yes.
  • meepmorp 14y ago
    > TL;DR: It is extremely difficult to sustain the needs of a child with a pure vegetarian/vegan diet. So really, meat is wholly replaceable in the human diet, though doing so in children may be difficult.