Banned from c/vegan for this one. My bad.

Captions: Anakin Padme 4-panel:

  • “I’m going to make everyone go vegan and eat soybeans.”
  • “So we won’t destroy any more ecosystems, right?”
  • …
  • “We won’t destroy any more ecosystems, right?”
  • sexy_peach@feddit.deM
    4·
    3 years ago

    Try to keep your young child healthy with soy milk, as I have seen in some cases of fanatical vegans, with dire consequences.

    Why would I give soy milk to young children?? Children have mothers milk or specially crafted formula and then start eating other foods.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      23·
      3 years ago

      Yes, without a doubt, but i’ve seen vegans who do this, because milk isn’t vegan and which don’t even use honey in their diet nor using yeast as complement. Works in young people some years, but all they finished with 40-50 years with several serious health diseases. As I say, fanatism is bad and it is idiotic to pretend that it from falling from one extreme to the other due to alleged unnatural excesses in the past in meat feeding to the other just as unnatural only with vegetals. https://www.newsweek.com/parents-convicted-feeding-baby-vegetable-milk-625626

      • Aarkon@feddit.de
        3·
        3 years ago

        While it is true that certain dietary deficits take years to surface in actual somatic issues and probably as well that the majority of vegans is younger than the western average, neither is evidence that a vegan diet (especially a modern one) can’t be sustainable & healthy for a whole lifetime.

        Large fractions of the world’s population don’t eat diary products at all (like said before, lactose tolerance is rather the exception than the rule, globally), and others don’t have access to meat/fish, at least regularly, can’t keep certain animals or what not - do you consider all that unhealthy?

        • التنينوكس@social.touha.me
          0·
          3 years ago

          @Aarkon @Zerush I am not an expert in the domain but my area for lacking access to fish, has a high incidence of Goitre.

          This is because of a clear lack of iodine and some minerals found in seafood. While most cope up with this, they do have thyroid issues.

          I guess the same can be said for a lack of any other type of food.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          0·
          3 years ago

          Certainly are people in the third world without a regulary access to animal protein, but also there are normally a lessd lifespan as in the western world. Apart, there is a huge difference between not a regulary access to animal protein and never. Most of the people in these countries are also include insects and other recources in their diet, even in few occasions. This is just what a healthy diet include, which we don’t have in the western world with meet for every day, which is also not a healthy and balanced diet, as I mencioned before (depending on the climatic conditions, and activity. A Inuit with -30ªC need more fat and animal products as the people in Africa with 40ºC, also a worker in a fundition more than a officinist)