This new article is making a splash in the headlines with its catchy and unignorable title .
It’s a great deep-dive on the nutritional deficiencies common in the vegan diet, and the fact that insufficient supplementation [and/or absorption I’d add] of amino acids, as well as other key nutrients, is very common.
Ms. Gorvett deftly covers astute angles - and somehow a full color pic of a tasty egg & bacon burger is perfectly plonked in the middle of it for emphasis. She even raises the point that Gandhi’s health suffered by abstaining from milk and being a vegan for awhile - and returned to gratefully eating milk and ghee etc. That’s a powerful lesson for the more spiritual types of vegans, most of whom greatly love Gandhi - and possibly a good conversation starter.
The tricky thing is that part of the nutrient deficit brain state means that even though this article is great, one’s vegan loved ones brains’ aren’t very keen on deep dives into the nutritional science or facts of it, and it’s really a tragic communication gap.
The ideology/religion is the best thing some of my dear vegan friends have found ,for responding to the destructiveness of industrial culture in a way that they think reduces harm -without acknowledging that big agriculture is its own killing machine.
In an impure world with uncertain outcomes and a coming global food crisis, protecting one’s brain nourishment and the brain nourishment of children everywhere is a wiser dietary approach.
Maybe this article will at least compel more focus on the seriousness of the supplementation issue, and the highly processed nature of the typical vegan’s needed supplements.