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@maiyannah While I agree on pseudoscience bullcrap that a !vegan diet will magically cure ailness, the fact is that you'll have a smaller risk of contagious disease if you avoid animal products:
1. because of how the industry works, chickens crowding in small areas with their own feces, others' corpses etc. etc. (pick any animal that gets industrially bred and it'll have similar bad circumstances except some of the "ecological meat" products)
2. nasty bacteria that grows a whole lot better in meat than on greens
3. overuse of antibiotics just about everywhere, which in turn gets to you because if they can't kill the germs already in the animal they won't be able to kill it when you've consumed it.
etc. etc.
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@maiyannah Proteins are seldom from nuts. Chick-peas and stuff are much cheaper, easier to store and process and smack-filled with proteins. Lack of proteins isn't a !vegan problem. Only a stupid person problem (if someone's "vegan" is spaghetti + ketchup for example).
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@maiyannah Oh, oh, and that whole saturated/trans fat thing that is much harder to come by in vegetarian ingredients than animal based ones.
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@maiyannah Right yeah, I was assuming people actually cook their own food most of the time.
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@maiyannah In Sweden we've had court cases where they're not allowed to call it vegetarian if it contains egg/milk (because the proper term then is ovo/lacto vegetarian).
But I have a hard time thinking even the US is that bad at restricting labels, so I guess whoever called something with chicken "vegan" just hadn't gotten their FDA housecall yet.
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@takeshitakenji I'm personally not against eating meat itself, I just strictly oppose the industrialisation of breeding animals and the horrible destructive effect it has on our common planet.
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