by David The Good
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Every time I post something on YouTube about raising pigs, chickens or other animals for food, some crazy vegan will snipe at me.
Fortunately, most people are smarter than that.
This video explains the inherent silliness of eating vegan:
A good nutrient-dense diet needs to include meat.
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11 responses to “Why Vegan Diets Don’t Work”
Eat your red meat folks. Maybe not a massive amount but at least a modest amount alongside lots of veggies and fruits. The issues I see with meat are not the meat itself but the quality level of the meat in general. Store bought meats are total crap. From animals being treated poorly to the twisted stuff they do while they’re being raised or processed for sale. Buying truly pasture or grass fed red meats without the injections etc is the way to go.
We ate fully vegetarian for several years and purely vegan for 6-8 months in our mid 20s. Though vegetarian didn’t give us seemingly any issues pure vegan did. We felt absolutely amazing the first 3-4 months of pure vegan until the issues started to set in on us. Started being very low energy and feeling pale and like you were gonna pass out regularly the last few months of pure vegan. It had gotten so bad that we started adding meat back into our diets after those many years without and felt better very quickly. You must eat what you are made of for sure. You must have that quality protein but also the micronutrients from your veggies etc. We were meant to eat both in my opinion. Quality matters the absolute most.
To some people, veganism is more than a diet – it is a quasi-religion. The interesting thing is that studies reveal that there are far more ex-vegans than active, current vegans. This speaks directly to the efficacy – or lack thereof – of the diet. Think about it: most of the people who become vegan, over time, quit the diet.
Vegans can be divided into 3 main categories: health vegans (those who follow the diet for health reasons) and “ethical” vegans who are allegedly motivated by moral and/or ethical reason, and raw-fooders. Fanaticism is common in vegan diets, which can lead to eating disorders (orthorexia, anorexia, bulimia). There are “ethical” vegans on youtube who spew hate against omnivores and vegans who have a different type of vegan diet. For some, veganism can be the method to divide the world into “us” and “them”, providing reasons to hate “them”.
David – your post here will probably draw vegan hatred.
Long time lurker, first time commenter. Anytime veganism is mentioned, Baxter Black’s “Vegetarian Nightmare” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nai76P7eA0c) is obligatory.
Yikes! I never saw that one. Really intense.
I’m fine with people choosing to eat whatever and however they want. I just don’t like when they demand everyone else join them. I especially hate seeing young children and pets forced to eat vegetarian/vegan diets. How is that not child abuse/animal abuse? They always look sick.
off topic (but totally agree)
Do you still have a PO box? 953 Atmore 36504?
I set a Christmas card but it came back
No – we moved! Sorry you didn’t see that. No longer Atmore, but Brewton.
David The Good
PO Box 283
Brewton, AL 36427
Is this the address I can send the ube bulbils too? Figure so but want to be positive. I did email you back but know you probably get so many its hard to keep up. Anyways I’ll probably send them off on Tuesday.
Yes, that is right.
Thank you for sending the card.
No hatred from me. I used to eat a lot of meat. Still do on rare occasions. Switched to a plant-based diet. Never felt better. From a health standpoint, there is nothing in meat that you need that you can’t get from a plant-based diet…including protein. That said to each their own.