re: #125 Unabogie

I’m vegan, and I’m part of what you might call “vegan skeptics”, who are people who adopt a vegan diet for ethical reasons but are horrified at the pseudoscience that gets promoted around it. IMO, documentaries like this only hurt the cause because it invites people to mock veganism over things not actually related to veganism.

IMO, people should go vegan because:
1. It’s undeniably better for the environment
2. In a modern society, when people can get everything they need from a plant based diet, it’s unethical to harm animals for food and clothing.

Well, that goes back to the old joke, “How do you know someone is a vegan? They’ll tell you.”

What’s undeniably bad for the environment is trucking or shipping vegetables all over the planet. You know what we can grow around here? Cattle, chickens, sheep, corn, and wheat.

If you’re “thinking globally but acting locally” you know what you buy to eat here? Beef, chicken, mutton or lamb, corn, and wheat.

I’ve been in a running argument with a moonbat vegan on another site now for four days who is trying to convince me (a city water operator) that the reason there is no Vitamin B-12 in water is because chlorination by cities kills it.

(For the record, B-12 grows in the gut bacteria of ruminants, and certain algae that is not found on this continent. You can get it from grass that has cow pies in it. It is not recommended to eat cow pies, though I’ll bet there’s a moonbat out there who thinks that’s fine. It is not found in water except water with dead animals in it, chlorine does not destroy B-12, cities are not required to chlorinate water unless they have contamination in their water supplies, and homeowners with wells are not required to chlorinate water ever.)