Vegetarians: What do you think of this interview that attacks vegeterians?!

It is her experience. I don't have to prove her "wrong," but I can listen and in the end say what it stated near the beginning of the interview. "There are always both sides to the argument." So even if her story is true, it is just one side of the argument again. There's plenty of other vegans who speak out after years and are very healthy. It sounds to me that this lady in the interview became vegan at a very young age without fully understanding why, and she simply stuck with the diet for many years. That could both explain why she gave it up and also why it didn't work for her (if she didn't eat a balanced diet).

Regardless. I will say this. Through the interview, some interesting points are also brought up. The idea that veg*ns can be as blinded to what they eat as those raised in meat-eating homes and continue an omnivore diet makes me alert. I broke out of the "social conditioning" when I became vegan. I don't want to fall into another pattern of that. Personally, I couldn't eat meat again because of the negative feelings it brings me. But nonetheless --

1. The idea that the vegetation diets is better environmentally - just assuming that -- is something I've heard from some vegetarians and yet they do not think about the environmental impacts of shipping the produce or all of the GMOs in their soy products. No denying that there are ways around that -- just an observation that many (not all!) vegetarians aren't concerned over it.

2. Thinking that a vegetarian diet is always healthier. I fully believe that diets high in meat are bad for you as well as hormone-driven meat, but there has been too many studies to assume that a person cannot eat meat and be healthy.

I was happy to hear that the interviewee stated that she believed that factory farming is terrible. While I encourage people to research before simply going vegetarian, I still always point out factory farming whenever appropriate. Factory farming is never ok.

Some of the other general information about plants and the like is interesting too.

Long post. Bottom line. It's knowledge worth listening to, but it doesn't make it true for anyone else. When it comes to diet, find what works for you and not for someone else!

Vegan

Its just the same bollocks we see here every day. She isn't a scientist, she isn't an academic; she's just someone who wasn't a very committed vegan to begin with who then decided she wants to eat meat and is using some very tired arguments and strawman fallacies to justify it (ooooh, she'd hate that I said strawMAN). The fact that the Weston A Price Foundation gives her their "thumbs up" is a good indication that her arguments are not based in reality.

http://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews…

id say, good on her for trying to get education on health out

and id say shes not "attacking" anyone, but IS attacking lack of education

but,
shes more talking abut vegans, not vegetarians,
she keeps switching between vegan and vegetarian as if they are the same thing, when im sure shes aware they arent

im with her on that education is the key here, its our main social problem, and the one thing the nets great for, as well as not so great for

but to keep switching vegan and veggie is a bit strange , they are very different diets

she says herself she livd the " vegetarian life"
, yet she was a vegan, so, no, she didnt live the vegtarian life, she lived the vegan one

i totally get what shes doing,
its what some of us are doing on here, trying to educate tohelp others so they 'do it right', whichis a great commendable thing, but not eveeryones the same, and veggies and vegans arent either

the problem is that soceity doesnt educate enough or well enough,
and from that ,withthe right info, each persons individual choice, is their own

...yeah this guy sounds like an intellectual. lol

i was really going to listen to what he had to say, but apparently its an hour long lol so screw that---but here is a link on the most common anti-vegan arguments and comebacks for each:
http://wayfaringvegans.weebly.com/common…