[lbo-talk] Alternet reviews Singer's latest (The Way We Eat) (and other responses)

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Fri May 26 23:47:33 PDT 2006


On 5/26/06, info at pulpculture.org <info at pulpculture.org> wrote:
>
> if you'll notice, most of my posts on this thread are about VEGAN diets. my
> statement was about those diets.

I was responding to the second part of this claim of yours:


> an entirely vegan diet doesn't provide that
> for you. a vegetarian diet usually doesn't provide that for you.

It is nonsense that a vegetarian diet doesn't USUALLY provide that.


> I also think that you discount the tendency for USers to be vegjunktarians,
> as this article points out and it's just exactly what I described and
> points at why I was ill:
> http://drfuhrman.com/library/article5.aspx

It's not my experience that most American vegetarians are "vegjunktarians", at least not those who remain vegetarian for more than a couple months at most. And I don't see where that article says that they are, either. I'm sorry about what happened to you but to use it as a springboard to say that vegetarian diets, PER SE, do not "usually" provide essential nutrients is totally inaccurate and I make no apology for pointing that out.



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