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Originally Posted by y.winter
Going to the gym and lifting some weights doesn't mean you're helping your body, you could quite easily harm yourself - it's all about doing it right. Same goes with diet and nutrition.
For me, it comes to show how badly educated people are when it comes to plant based food. When fruits and vegetables almost go under the same group in the (allegedly) food pyramid they teach you in school, when in reality it has so much layers and they differ from each other in so many aspects. When I'm getting asked "of you're vegan? So what do you have to eat?" I love to joke and answer "lettuce", because I find it funny that once you take dairy products and meat from the equation, people don't know where to begin with - and it's ridiculous, because there's so much to begin with and the variety is enormous without even touching the fake meat and like-milk category. Just replacing your meat meals with veggie burgers and other supermarket-bought frozen vegan meals and your yogurt with soy based one -doesn't mean you're doing it right. But people think they are, when it's actually mostly junk food with zero nutritional values.
In regards to the child thing - eating animals is not more of a default diet than a vegan diet is, it's rather your own personal opinion/social convention (not necessarily a right one). There's nothing unbalanced and non beneficial in vegan diet (in fact it has more than many other diets). People don't know how to deal with it because of bad/lack of education - this is where it falls.
And as for the cat lady - yeah, I have come across a lot of weird people, vegans and non vegans, so the way I see it, it's nothing but ad hominem.
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Well yes, more education about this in schools and in general tbh would definitely help. As I said, my opinion on the whole thing may well be biased due to the people I know who are veggie/vegan and how I have actually watched them become pale and ridiculously thin after ditching meat, heard them going on about suffering severe anemia and so on. But yes, they probably just don't balance stuff properly or understand that its so much more than just replacing chicken with processed crap from the supermarket :S
I am not saying eating animals should be the default diet for kids. But if the kid wants to eat meat to the point where she actually cries when kids around her are eating meat that she is not allowed...do you not think this is quite cruel? Obviously some kids chose not to which is fine (aslong as the parents are educated in how to keep the diet as balanced as possible...mind some parents could do with a crash course in this in general) but having the choice totally taken from them...I just think is awful tbh