Vegan Death Cult

gozunda wrote: »

Yup last time I checked this is boards and shock horror people post stuff. Maybe best report it if you think its outside ToU or otherwise rather than throwing crap around at all and sundry no?

Leave the modding to us thanks.

Unearthly wrote: »

Did you know the person who made this video is in favour of allowing murder and rape of humans to be legal as it's natural?

Not to generalise, but....all meat eaters hold that opinion

wakka12 wrote: »

So stupid. You can be fat if you eat enough , and vegan diet is no exception, whats stopping somebody eating dozens of avocados or loads of olive oil or nuts or seeds which have huge amounts of calories? Theres no reason why a vegan diet would lead to malnourishment because of this bizarre anecdotal video

It's not really anecdotal. Anecdotal is when you base something on personal experience which may not be representative. This is not based on personal experience, this is somebody with an agenda deliberately trawling online through who knows how many hours of footage to cherrypick some examples to fit their twisted worldview.

MrAbyss wrote: »

The Vegans all become mentally ill because there is no B12 or animal fats to generate neural plasticity in the brain. They basically die because the brain and nervous systems dies.

Anyone you know today who is a vegan will be dead within a decade or in a psyche ward.

Healthy Plant-Based Diets Are Associated
with Lower Risk of All-Cause Mortality
in US Adults

That's United States adults not us adults.
I'm not being condescending.

Condescending means having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.

hellsing101 wrote: »

On topic though I cant imagine a vegetable only diet is particularly healthy, modern humans have always been omnivores so its going against thousands of years of evolution, same goes for meat only diet.

Thing is, there is a pretty common fallacy that at one point man was in a state of absolute harmony with his environment, from which we have strayed over time. I remember when I was young, my Ma claiming that our **** wouldn't smell if we ate properly, but modern foods made our **** stink.

This isn't really any different.

We evolved, over millions of years, to make good use of our environment. The organisms which can extract the most energy, most efficiently from their surroundings, are the ones which will propagate.

This doesn't mean that the diet humans ate was perfect, was processed with perfect efficiency, or was the optimal use of the environment. It merely meant that the diet humans ate, and the way humans ate, allowed them to survive better than competitors, and live long enough to raise at least one (but probably two according to anthropology) generations of offspring.

It doesn't mean that reverting to a prehistoric diet pattern is by default, better.
It doesn't mean that a prehistoric diet didn't cause cancer (for example), merely that it didn't cause cancer quickly enough to prevent the organism from procreating.
And it doesn't mean that a modified diet to include or exclude foodstuffs, cannot be better than a "traditional" diet.

It's a form of the appeal to tradition fallacy, but it crops up so often in discussions on diet, that it probably deserves its own name.

The reason humans are omnivores, is because our prehistoric diets were often massively suboptimal. And an omnivorous system allowed to us to make the best of a bad lot in harsh times. Being omnivores doesn't require us to eat a varied diet, quite the opposite; it allows our bodies to continue to function at a relatively high level when a varied diet is unavailable.

gozunda wrote: »

Not to generalise but that would depend whether you believe the bs or otherwise

Agreed but then you look at some of the comments made here and on any other vegan/meat eater threads. Its a bit mental really.

riffmongous wrote: »

Jains would be pretty close

That would require research.

Veganism is pretty hardcore in fairness. Imagine actually giving up cheese out of choice? A step too far for this poster.