>A general response to the various points raised:
>
>I think Singer is not referring to people with particular needs, such as
>those like you with heart conditions, that require specialized diets.
>Such are not representative of the general case, yes?
>
>I mentioned that I have a clean bill of health to imply that I do not
>think it is necessary to count and keep track (again in the general
>case) of vitamins, proteins, etc. It is not some theoretical, unexamined
>issue that we are discussing here. Large populations of human beings
>have lived, quite healthy and long lives, on entirely vegetarian diets.
>And they have come upon their diets through an evolutionary process, but
>have no method or need to quantify and track components, today.
No, no. We're talking _vegan_ diet. no animal products whatsoever.
And yes, it does matter, to everyone: you have to have B12, essential proteins and essential fats. an entirely vegan diet doesn't provide that for you. a vegetarian diet usually doesn't provide that for you. there are plenty of stories of people becoming ill because they ate a vegetarian diet without knowing that they had to carefully eat certain foods to get the right amount of essential proteins, fats, B!2.
But please do tell us about the vegetarian cultures and what they ate and who they were. I don't want a list of books to read, I want references to legit sources and quotes.
What you're claiming isn't unarguably true. It's disputed.
By making broad claims about lots of cultures living like this, you do a disservice to people because you aren't giving them the whole picture. That's a problem.
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