This is a follow-up of my controversial entries attacking anti-smoking zealotry on the basic principle that anti-smokers, who aren't vegan or at least vegetarian, are being hypocrites. And that the anti-smoking zealotry and campaign needs to be put into a context. If you think cigarettes should be banned because of air pollution, you should go vegan -- the animal enterprise industry is the number two and three worst offenders in every type of pollution, including air pollution. And the American standard animal-based diets is as deadly, if not more deadly, than cigarette smoking. They are roughly equal to each other.
It is easy for anti-smokers to lynch smoking and smokers because smokers and smoking, in America, are being alienated and pressured from all sides and don't represent a majority as they once did. Like cigarettes, eating animal based diets is an option, not a necessity. If anti-smokers are honest about why they object against smoking, then they should naturally go vegan for the exact same reasons why they want people to quit smoking. Having an animal-based diet, just like smoking, is harmful to not just the individual doing it, but is harmful for others who don't even eat animals.
The motive for going vegan, just like the motive for an individual who smokes, isn't that their single individual act will suddenly change everything, but that the individual in question is no longer participating in a harmful and completely optional practice.
And I didn't even factor into the video about the suffering towards non-human animals into the equation, simply just humans. But it is a thought to consider, not only is going vegan better for everybody's health, not just your health, not only is vegan diets better for the environment, but going vegan also prevents you for contributing to the suffering and exploitation of the thousands and thousands of animals you yourself will cause to suffer and death by your individual choices throughout your life.
Okay, enough talk, watch the video:
Ok... so we've just completely rehashed what was previously established in your first and second blogs on this subject. Are you completely lacking in originality lately? I have a few blogging ideas if you're short.
It's not about being a vegan/vegetarian. It's about being healthy, and eating meat and dairy products moderately. Choosing the right ones to eat, such as lean cuts of beef over 85% lean ground beef. This is not rocket science; you haven't responded to comments in your previous blog. We have also shown that vegans/vegetarians are in no way healthier than meat eating people who have a healthy lifestyle, and in fact vegans/vegetarians have shorter lifespans. Sustainable farming; sustainable lifestyles reduces your carbon footprint whether you are a meat-eater or not. This video is a moot point.
And it's the American Dietetic Association, just for future spelling reference.
End story.
If you notice, I don't blog here consequently anymore, haven't for a long, long time. My time is devoted to other projects, but I come back here from time to time. You can criticize me for that, but that is pointless. I use to be an avid blogger, but time is a precious commodity. I don't have endless time and endless energy to divide into endless projects.
Furthermore, you are rehashing.
I brought up different sets of data form different sources. You are running over your
own feet in such a hasty judgment as you have just done. There is no rehashing buddy. The only rehashing, or really, I should say regurgitating, is being done by you.
You aren't even responding to the data.
Lean meat, non-lean meat, it is still a problem. It is a fact that a diet with high animal protein intake is a problem, its not just fat that is the problem. Furthermore, there is no biological need for dairy products if you are no longer an infant, and the dairy you need comes from your mom, not a bovine mom that you will never meet in person.
You have not shown and have never shown that vegans and vegetarians don't live longer and aren't healthier.
The American Dietetic Association, the American Heart Association, their Canadian counterparts, and many other organizations explicitly state that a vegan/vegetarian diet is perfectly suitable for all stages of life and have significantly reduced risks of major causes of death and major debilitating conditions. Where are your credentials? What exactly is your profession that your words can toss aside multiple organizations explicitly specializing on good health?
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I wrote an entire blog responding to your rambling diatribes the first time, which you rudely never bothered to comment on despite your awareness of it's existence. You'll note that it's fully referenced by legitimate sources and researchers.
http://progressiveu.org/001209-i-am-a-meat-eater-and-im-proud-of-it-disp...
Your data is unfounded, poorly referenced, you never gave us the true link to that UN report, and you really ought to spell-check your "Video Blog."
I support sustainable agriculture, not food elitism.
Anti-smoking zealotry is not about imposing a healthy lifestyle on people; it has to do with the fact that smokers think everyone is okay with breathing in their toxic fumes and actually like the smell of cigarettes.
I dealt with that. If you watched the video, you'd know that more toxic fumes are exhaled by the animal enterprise industry than cigarette smokers. I think you either didn't pay attention or the only reason for anti-smoking zealotry is simply that people don't like the smell of cigarettes. And I'm sorry, but when it comes to spending energy to change the world for the better, getting rid of a pesky smell ranks pretty low as an ethical argument.
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So you're proposing that, because animals release more toxic fumes relative to cigarettes, we can't do anything about cigarettes until we address the other problem? Hmm... why not both? And you're damn right it's about a pesky smell that causes cancer over time.
Why not both? Well, maybe you missed it, but I suggested doing both in the video.
If anti-smoking zealots are really against cigarettes for causing cancer and for polluting the air, it is hypocritical for them to have animal-based diets for the exact same reasons they object against cigarettes.
In the video, I said that anti-smokers can either remain as hypocrites or abandon hypocrisy by going vegan.
I never implied once that they couldn't be vegan and anti-smoking, in fact, that's why I am suggesting that anti-smokers go vegan and discard the hypocrisy of eating animal products.
Why not both? Certainly. But if an anti-smoker stays non-vegan, they are contradicting themselves in the reasons why they are against smoking. That's the point.
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Like I've been pointing out again and again and again. You are waving a big bag of nothing around. And you still refuse to admit the simple things like your blatantly easily provable mistaken assumptions and you also fabricate as you go along. Your credibility is shot to pieces. You have no leg to stand on when it comes to intellectual honesty or integrity. Hell, you couldn't even google Livestock's Long Shadow and find it -- though it pops to the top of the list. No, instead you insinuated that such a document didn't exist. Your blowhard comments you keep leaving here just keeps digging yourself deeper into your own hole.
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