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Veganism in unhealthy, unnatural, and destructive to young children and the environment (gtio.io)
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The most bioavailable foods are animal foods. Plant form iron is not even remotely comparable to heme iron.

Heme iron is found only in meat, poultry, seafood, and fish.

Take a iron deficient person and give them plant iron and it will be weeks to never before their iron returns. Feed them a liver and see it spike up in a day.

The same can be said of vitamin A and many other vitamins. A No indigenous society on earth has ever been vegan. Even horses who eat grass sometimes eat birds.

Hong Kong has one of the highest life expectancies on earth and one of the highest meat consumption rates on earth.

Every "Vegan" body builder got their start on whey protein. And are in their 20's usually. There is no good 50+ year old long term vegan body builders who aren't on massive amount of steroids and who didn't get their start on animal protein.

Vegan farming is unsustainable. Animals naturally help the soil become more nutritious.

Vegan foods are terrible for the environment. Mass produced mono crops destroy the soil.

Being a vegan is OK if you want to destroy your body. Pushing it on children is evil because it will limit their growth.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Weird, 97% is a really high number... In my country it's about 10%, even with the EU laws to promote extensivization. I'll take it though.

Grass lands are common, but what about the animals? There couldn't have been nearly that many if a few early colonists hunted them down so quickly. Also the kind of grassland those lived in was vastly different from what cows need, let alone chicken.

Messing with their pH balance? As in, giving them diarrhea? Yes, that's usually treated with antibiotics if severe, but still insufficient. Cattle get many different kinds of infections, anything from infected cuts to insect-transmitted diseases.

If we humans get and transmit diseases today, animals do the same. The first risk factor for that is the total number of individuals, so that needs to be cut down, and livestock are much more numerous than us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Most of what this person says is made up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Said the guy who post blogs as a source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Grace can't see your reply because lemmy blocks exploding-heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

interesting, I didn't think that would be the case because wolfballs blocks lemmyML too and their comments show up for me

does this site block e-heads at all? because I tried to comment on another post in gtio politics which I posted on on wolfballs and it wasn't showing up (because wolfballs sometimes has downtime issues so I use explodingheads and also try to give them more traffic)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Their comments aren't on wolf balls. Lemmy blocks exploding heads, but exploding heads doesn't block lemmy. You can see them but they can't see you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Grass lands are common, but what about the animals? There couldn’t have been nearly that many if a few early colonists hunted them down so quickly.

It wasn't actually that quick. It was over many generations. White people did hunt them by the millions but also the natives were newly armed with horses and guns and so could hunt them down much more efficiently, then sell the hides.

Messing with their pH balance? As in, giving them diarrhea?

Not just diarrhea, salmonella and other diseases. Their stomachs are not designed for corn. Feeding them mostly corn makes them vulnerable to lots of bacterial over growth. That is the reason they need antibiotics to begin with.

Maybe in parts of the EU people should protest cattle farming but here in the states I see lots of really happy cow farms.