I am NOT "Anti-Vegan", I am anti-vegan DIET

     Just as the title says, I am not anti vegan. I love vegans, some of my best friends are vegans. And those friends have huge hearts, good senses of humor and are coming from a place of compassion. However, the vegan diet is pretty darn bad for your health long term. If you would like to dabble in eating only vegetables and fruits (not the processed "fake meats, cheeses, and milks" that keeps vegans alive), go for it. You will probably lose quite a bit of weight just due to the fact that everything you are eating contains fiber and you can't absorb much nutrition (except sugar).

    However, as covered in the book, plant matter is also full of anti-nutrients and enzyme inhibitors. This means that as these poisons build up in your system, you will feel worse and worse, not quite knowing why, after about a month of vegan eating. Let's look at almonds, the good old almond. Vegans use almonds for "milk", "yogurt", "cheese", and as a "healthy snack". Yet almonds and cashews have all the problems of other seeds, high omega 6 fat content and a HUGE oxalate load that will lead to lethargy, irritability, erratic hormones, and kidney stones.  

    IF this was a natural human diet, vegans would not have to supplement all sorts of vitamins and minerals in order to feel good. Vegans will eventually NEED to supplement: Vit B12, creatine, D3, nutritional yeast, K2, iron, calcium, iodine, and omega 3 fatty acids. Here's the thing, if someone JUST ate a ribeye and a couple of pieces of aged cheddar, you would get ALL of these nutrients. Plus, you are still eating vegetables, which will block or slow down the absorption of these vitamins and minerals, so when the zinc that you are taking gets blocked by the spinach you are eating, you will realize why the carnivore diet is a much better option. 

    IF you are eating vegan for ethical reasons, because you love animals and want what's best for them, THIS reasoning I can totally understand. No one hates factory farming more than me. But I also realize it is a necessary evil to provide the poor and the downtrodden access to AFFORABLE meat and dairy for optimal health. This ethical dilemma, if you can swing it, can be taken care of by getting to know a local(ish) farmer. The local farmer is a great dude, he cares about his animals more than you do because they are his livelihood. The cows will be grass fed, the chickens will be free range, and the pigs will be fat and happy. Get to know your local farmer and buy a half cow, you will not be contributing to factory farming, you will know your cow lived a full, happy life, and that it was killed humanely. The carbon footprint of someone that takes one cow to feed their family for the year is very small. If you get your eggs, milk, and bacon from the same farmer, you will have a bunch of healthy, ethical options at your disposal, no supplements necessary. 

    If you needed one more reason why veganism is not the way to go, think of the "sugar problem". If sugar is inflammatory and bad for you in almost any amount, and all carbs are sugar, then the vegan diet is really a sugar diet, because of the lack of BIOAVAILABLE protein and the abundance of seed oils and other omega 6 fats. This means the vegan diet can lead to every problem a high sugar provides, including diabetes, certain cancers, and auto immune diseases.  

        Once again, some of my favorite people are vegans, and more power to them. Also, it is not even close to a natural human diet. Plants are starvation foods utilized when stocks of meat were getting low, plants are not meant to make up the bulk of your diet. IF I have a vegan reading this, PLEASE consider adding "no death" foods to your diet and becoming vegetarian. Add eggs, raw milk, and cheese back into your diet in large amounts just to get SOME nutrition. They can be organic, pasture raised, and raw, but please consider. 

    Just wanted to clear that up, long story short, vegans are good people, the vegan diet is not a good diet. 

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