Cringe to choose the ethical option - plants are just too good; I can’t give them up. I guess I’ll have to start eating double the amount of plants to make up for your carnivorous ways.
The thing about vegan diets being unhealthy really irks me because the alternative is not usually some perfect diet optimized for health but whatever thoughtless diet one gets from just eating whatever they feel like in the moment without any deliberate thought.
Have you studied the arguments claiming that veganism may actually increase the total amount of suffering when you consider wild-animal suffering? Do you have an opinion on this issue?
I think it's very doubtful--the effect on wild animal suffering is mostly very, very unclear, and in the case of most animals, just completely dwarfed by the first-order effect of not eating animals.
If I ate a plant based diet I would have to take artificial supplements of choline, creatine, B12, D, calcium, zinc, and iodine. I can't afford the $20/month for those supplements so I will get a $5 big mac every day instead.
You only need a b12 and d supplement. You get iodine from salt, for instance. There’s a reason vegans have better health than non vegans even controlling for other stuff
Could you link to a study showing vegans have better health after controlling for other stuff? I spent a few minutes trying to find a study like that but the handful I looked at all had confounding variables.
Cringe to choose the ethical option - plants are just too good; I can’t give them up. I guess I’ll have to start eating double the amount of plants to make up for your carnivorous ways.
The thing about vegan diets being unhealthy really irks me because the alternative is not usually some perfect diet optimized for health but whatever thoughtless diet one gets from just eating whatever they feel like in the moment without any deliberate thought.
I’ve been vegan for 20 years but you’ve convinced me to change my wicked ways!
Your hunger shall be ready, for when the Glenn inevitably sues you for plagiarism in the supreme marsupial court, you must simply eat him too.
Have you studied the arguments claiming that veganism may actually increase the total amount of suffering when you consider wild-animal suffering? Do you have an opinion on this issue?
I think it's very doubtful--the effect on wild animal suffering is mostly very, very unclear, and in the case of most animals, just completely dwarfed by the first-order effect of not eating animals.
Wild animals are not less harmed by loss of habitat to beef production, in Brazil for example
Keep at it and maybe you can level up to looking like Liver King.
If I ate a plant based diet I would have to take artificial supplements of choline, creatine, B12, D, calcium, zinc, and iodine. I can't afford the $20/month for those supplements so I will get a $5 big mac every day instead.
You only need a b12 and d supplement. You get iodine from salt, for instance. There’s a reason vegans have better health than non vegans even controlling for other stuff
Could you link to a study showing vegans have better health after controlling for other stuff? I spent a few minutes trying to find a study like that but the handful I looked at all had confounding variables.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26853923/
This one is about vegetarians rather than vegans but controls for stuff https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15824171/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4691673/pdf/ajcn119461.pdf
Good to read!
Veganists suck.
I fear you did not read very carefully.
I read that you are now on a manly lion's diet of nothing but bloody hunks of healthy god-given meat.
That's a good thing: you need super animalistic proteins to build muscle and fight fight fight.
Screw the Veganists and their weak veganismatic impulses.
It's great to read someone who's so genuine and honest in his writing and who can also recognize it in others.
When they call you a carnist,but you're really just circle-of-life anti-communist-maxing
You should stop writing this blog, instead listen and learn.
So you are now down for frog legs...guess I'll have to start making crutches for them to get around.
Touche. But you're too quick to dismiss the lion argument.