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.

Michael Pollan, in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, points out that it is entirely possible to raise animals for milk, eggs and even meat in a humane way, but that is not at all compatible with our factory farming and food-processing methods.