RE: Veganism 'the healthiest diet?'
November 15, 2016 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2016 at 10:30 pm by bennyboy.)
I'm vegetarian, sometimes with stretches of vegan, and I can say-- if you have to try THAT hard to stay healthy, it's probably not the diet that people were meant to have.
Clearly, a mixed diet favoring vegetables, fruits and nuts but also including some animal fats and proteins is the most viable diet for good overall health.
As for ethical issues: vegetable food sources, especially grains, if mass produced, involve huge machines that churn up dirt and grind up plants, and plenty of little critters are gonna get mulched. So unless you are hand-picking food from plants grown lovingly in your family's own shit, you're probably not really doing the environment any favors. I'd say the best overall approach would be to hunt out-of-control wild species for food, currently very much deer in the US.
In the long run, though, I think algae and bacterial foods could be grown out of waste, and be genetically modified to be super-rich in nutrition, including the Omega oils and so on, and textured to be pleasant enough to eat. There is SO much we could do to recycle the resources that we use, and that would not only minimize our impact on other living things, but could keep the air and water cleaner as well.
Clearly, a mixed diet favoring vegetables, fruits and nuts but also including some animal fats and proteins is the most viable diet for good overall health.
As for ethical issues: vegetable food sources, especially grains, if mass produced, involve huge machines that churn up dirt and grind up plants, and plenty of little critters are gonna get mulched. So unless you are hand-picking food from plants grown lovingly in your family's own shit, you're probably not really doing the environment any favors. I'd say the best overall approach would be to hunt out-of-control wild species for food, currently very much deer in the US.
In the long run, though, I think algae and bacterial foods could be grown out of waste, and be genetically modified to be super-rich in nutrition, including the Omega oils and so on, and textured to be pleasant enough to eat. There is SO much we could do to recycle the resources that we use, and that would not only minimize our impact on other living things, but could keep the air and water cleaner as well.
