As many others have stated, the issue isn't with the choice to deprive yourself of necessary nutrients, the issue is with vegans forcing their lifestyle on everyone else and shaming those who do not submit.
You can always tell who's a began, because they'll tell you about it within 5 minutes of meeting them.
How true. When my middle daughter was in high school she had a friend from band that decided to become vegan. One day during dinner her friend comes to visit. We are sitting at the table
eating steak. My wife, trying to be polite and knowing that she is vegan, offers to make something for her. While this is going on the friend looks straight at me with a bite of steak on my fork
and says" you're eating death" to which I replied " yeah, buts it's tasty death". She immediately starts crying and leaves. It must suck not having a logical argument to defend your lifestyle.
My family owns a steakhouse so..... plus bacon is just damned tasty.
Seriously though my wife and I don't eat meat for every meal all the time either. She has been eating more hear lately because she's pregnant and needs the iron and protein and those are just things that are harder to get in large, soluble amounts from plant based diets. We actually did what's called a Daniel fast earlier this year, that's no meat at all for 40 days, and with some of the products on the market today it's almost like cheating. Very tasty stuff that if you didn't know where vegetarian/vegan you wouldn't know.
I’ve been wondering this for some time now. What’s with the hate towards a plant-based diet and those with more conservative-based leanings? I often hear soy-boy and beta-cuck tossed around. I am not totally WFPB/vegan, but am eating less animal-based products and have only had positive results without any change to my activity levels.
Americans as a whole eat WAY too much meat/animal products, ask any doctor.
I’ve been wondering this for some time now. What’s with the hate towards a plant-based diet and those with more conservative-based leanings? I often hear soy-boy and beta-cuck tossed around. I am not totally WFPB/vegan, but am eating less animal-based products and have only had positive results without any change to my activity levels.
I'm unfortunately gluten free.... Not by choice.
All these guys that think they are great hunters will find game scarce a lot of the year...
Even more so if they hunt without firearms like early humans, so ground crops keep humans alive much of the year.
This allowed humans to stay in one place where they could start building infrastructure, refine metals, etc.
Growing vegetables and fruits supplanted gathering not hunting. It wasn't until animals were domesticated that hunting began to be supplanted. Fruits and vegetables alone have never been able to sustain civilizations very well.
Crops are seasonal, wildlife, with the exception of migratory animals, are not. Animals do not just disappear and reappear with the change of the seasons.
If you think it would be difficult for people to survive a societal breakdown by hunting, it would be even more difficult to do so by primarily growing fruits and vegetables. Growing fruits and vegetables is land and equipment intensive not to mention the need to defend the crops from human and animal pests.
Maybe you missed the point...
Hunter-Gatherers did a lot of starving, and once any given area was hunter-gatherer out, the group had to move on, nomad existence.
Until animal husbandry & growing/hybridizing of weeds into grain crops staying in one place year round wasn't an option most places.
Even rain forest tribes had to move seasonally since areas get hunted out.
Farming both crops & livestock allowed societies to stay in place long enough to build infrastructure...
Without infrastructure, we would still be in the stone age.
It's REAL hard to pack up and move a metal smelter, pottery kiln, stone oven, etc.
Even the crudest iron furnace or pottery kiln would take a LOT of manpower to build, and would have been impossible for prehistoric man to move.
Let's not put the cart before the horse,
There were exactly ZERO cities in prehistory, even the smallest permanent settlements had signs of animal husbandry & agriculture,
Grain storage, etc even before fired/glazed pottery...
Doesn't take a genius to figure out agriculture & herding came before cities/permanent settlements,
Permanent settlements allowed for people to develope ovens, mess with pottery, metals, etc.
Hard to do that when you are out hunting-gathering all day, everyday...