Re: Babies' Mental Delay Tied to Moms' Vegan Diet

>I was not saying that all reporting on veg. is biased.. I saying >that the scare tactic reporting..and this particular story is >biased.. the scientific evidence to back up what they are trying >to insinuate is not valid.

How so?

>I coulod be caught up in my own emotion.. but I do believe that >this story is "implying" that vegans arent healthy and shouldnt >have babies, although they just dont come out and say it....

They said nothing of the sort. The article I read said proper nutrition is important for natal care and even went on to say that they weren't bashing vegetarianism. That's pretty clear. But it is completely accurate to say a lot of vegetarians are improperly nurished. I have emperical data to support this. All the vegans I work with have pastey grey complexions, their hair is falling out and looks like tattered burlap threads and are mentally slow when doing analysis. Can you explain how any of that is indicative of good health? And how is this not throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

>i am left wondering how many meat eating moms babies are messed >up beacause they ate so much crap....

Why is eating meat always synonymous with eating crap? I'll grant you overeating meat is unhealthful. But it appears painfully obvious that undereating meat is also unhealthful.

>i am vegan for both ethical and health reasons... Im not into our >forest being choped to raise cattle, and the whole over >indulgence meat thing... I am open to hearing pro's and cons of >being veg... only if it is in responsible ways.... just my >opinion...

As for the ethical reasons: you are a heterotrophic consumer(you can't make you're own food the way autotrophs do) and must destroy life in order to keep your own. If you're going to extend the benefit of the doubt to our barnyard pals why not include all life? Plants have shown themselves responsive to stimulus. Why is it any more ethical to eat just plants instead of plants and animals? Doesn't that then mean that in order to provide the appropriate respect for living things that we must starve ourselves to death? That is the logical result of "be kind to animals don't eat them".
Incidently there are no such things as "cruelty free" products no matter how much bellyaching the vendor/merchant does. NOTHING in this country gets FDA approval unless it's tested on animals. All they do is contract some other business to do their testing for them so they can say they dont' do testing. That's bunk. It's a lie of omission.
Lastly: if you feel eating animals is bad I'm guessing that you feel animal testing is wrong too.
When you're sick do you refuse to use medicine to combat your sickenss? Do you refuse a Dr.'s care? If not how then is it any different than eating meat(as an end result)?
Just wondering.... ;)
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