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Originally Posted by LC FP
Also the hypocrisy of John Mackey is unbelievable. He's a confirmed vegan, but he sells meat in his stores because when he tried to not sell meat, his stores went bankrupt. So he'll sell meat to stay in business.
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Which is why the vegan philosophy is doomed to failure, and in fact, acts as a barrier to humane animal practices. Which is just one of the many reasons I have developed a strong dislike for vegans.
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Originally Posted by LC FP
However he does have a program with his employees to adopt a vegan lifestyle which has saved him $50,000 per employee, he says, in medical bills. I'm glad I don't work for him.
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I'm sure he's a liar as well as a hypocrite. My view of vegans was formed by that vegan doctor society, PCRM, stealing Dr. Atkins' medical records and outright lying about the manner of his death. Then, a few years back, there were all those vegan bloggers, some of whom were chefs, coming out with the news that their doctors were forcing them to eat meat because they were in serious health difficulties.
I can't look up the year or offer any links because
the sites were taken down due to death threats. But I vividly remember (because I eat lots of healthy
fat) that there was one chef in particular who was particularly brave and honest. She'd thought this was the best way to eat, she was stunned that it wasn't, and she divulged that some vegan bloggers had emailed her with,
Don't Tell. Yes, we eat meat sometimes to stay healthy, but we aren't supposed to talk about it!
There should be a rule: any practice that requires death threats to support... isn't a good practice.
So I'm sure Mackey is lying about saving his health care costs, because vegans either lie about what they eat or they get sick.
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According to Psychology Today, roughly 75% of vegetarians eventually return to eating meat with 9 years being the average length of time of abstinence.
The most common reason former vegetarians cited as the reason they returned to meat was declining health. One vegetarian turned omnivore put it very succinctly:
“I’ll take a dead cow over anemia any time.”
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About half of vegetarians originally gave up meat for ethical reasons. Pictures of confined animals standing on concrete in their own excrement and the stench of factory farms on country roads from 5 miles away is no doubt plenty of reason to turn away from meat. Some former vegetarians, however, have recognized and embraced the grassfed movement back to sustainable and humanely raised, cruelty free meats as a real ethical alternative.
Some of these converts back to meat view buying grassfed beef and other sustainably raised animal foods as a new form of activism similar to their boycott of factory farmed meats when they were vegetarians.
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Dr. Price concluded that while the diets of these natives varied widely, nutrient dense animal foods high in the fat soluble vitamins A, D, and K (also known as Activator X) were the common denominator. Consumption of these animal foods were revered in these communities as they bestowed vibrant health, ease of fertility, healthy children, and high resistance to chronic and infectious disease.
This discovery was a disappointment to Dr. Price who had expected to find the vegetarian cultures to be the healthiest cultures of all. But, the vegetarian cultures he examined displayed more degeneration than the omnivore cultures which surprised him given that these vegetarian cultures did indeed have superior health than the Americans of his day.
Most vegetarians return to eating meat
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And this is
vegetarians. They eat things like eggs and cheese. They are actually getting some animal protein, B12, and K2; and they still get into trouble.
The final straw was when I wrote an exhaustively detailed post (on my cat blog) about how veganism was bad for humans, in the midst of an argument about how it was bad for cats. Vegan cat lovers piled on in the comments, assuring me they fed their cats meat. Which was reassuring... but then they are, by their own definition, "killers." And they would admit cats are not vegans... but humans were supposed to be.
It's reached the point where they are on a part with TV preachers in my trust levels. It's not a lifestyle, it's not a diet. It's a cult.