A friend dated a devout Vegan who swallowed. I didn't bring the seeming contradiction up until I knew they weren't going to date any more...
Oddly, I don't think there's a contradiction there, if you base the use of animal byproducts on the fact that the animals can't consent to us consuming them... I assume your friend consented to having his by-products consumed.
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I don't know that vegans particularly care about the treatment of animals. A lot of evidence points to the diet being most healthy.
See a lot of dead vegans lying around? Anyhow, if you want the truth about vegans, ask MARIS61. The aliens who abducted him were from vega.
What is the point of that question? I've never seen dead people of any sort lying around. But yes, vegans do die.
No one would argue vegans don't die. BTW, Consumer Reports on their back page has a feature called Selling It, on various bloopers. Including a product called Campagne Forestier, Pork Free pate. The first two ingredients are pork and pork liver. Oi vey.
I'm not a vegan, but I've read a lot about nutrition over the years. I've never seen any study that shows a proper vegan diet is unhealthy, nor have I seen that animal products are a requirement for a healthy diet. The downsides of animal products are numerous. Including cholesterol, unhealthy levels of "bad" (saturated) fats, and is linked to various types of cancer. I rarely eat red meat anymore, fwiw. Fish, turkey, lean pork, and chicken are my main sources of protein. If I wanted to skip meat, I'd be pretty happy eating beans instead.
I'm eating lunch - salad (mostly from my garden) and vegetarian, but not vegan, pizza that I made. Made the whole wheat crust too.
While most vegans have lower blood pressure, cholesterol and LDL levels than meat-eaters, many vegans have vitamin B 12 deficiencies, calcium deficiencies, anemia, lower bone density and elevated homocysteine levels--which can lead to other serious health issues. Infants of mothers who lacked vitamin B12 while they were pregnant or nursing can suffer from lasting negative health effects.
