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Yeah watch forks over knives, changed my overweight friend with a bad family medical history's life. Women who know him hound him everyday about his continuing weight loss.PS OP you should watch the documentary "Forks Over Knives" if you're actually interested about the subject. The documentary dispels a lot of the misinformation out there in a non-sensationalist way, while answering tons of questions I'm sure you have. I've seen it probably ten times now after showing it to various family and friends. My aunt decided to completely change her lifestyle and diet after seeing it, got fit and lost 60 lbs, so that's a testament if anything is.. Anyways I think Netflix has it, if not, torrents.
Thanks, I'll have to look into that.
I was doing research online and found that the meat itself isn't unhealthy, but the kinds of meat. Lean, grass fed meats are not unhealthy at all, and are full of many of the vitamins (mainly B-12) that some have to take supplements to take and often don't get enough of without meat. But for every article praising the advantages of one diet, there is another one bringing up its disadvantages.
To put it simply, ethics. Once I educated myself on the moral, economical, environmental, and health implications of the use of animals in our diets and our products, I wouldn't have been able to look myself in the mirror if I hadn't become a vegan.
The ethics part interests me because while I get it, I don't get it. I've seen documentaries about how the big companies create massive amounts of chicken, beef, what have you but big vegetable/grain producers create many of the same issues in the product/environment (chemical runoff, clearing the large spaces of land, transportation, etc.)