Ignorance Flaunted
by dsb nola on July 20, 2010
Over at Nola.com’s “comment of the day,” veganola argues a vegan diet can teach children about social justice. Okay, so veganola probably isn’t being especially fair when s/he suggests the chicken and cow industrial complex leads to a
a system which feeds [children] carcinogenic, diabetes and stroke causing food, so that they can become fodder for a medical system determined to hook them an expensive medications instead of encouraging a good diet.
It’s not automatic a diet that includes animal products leads to all these bad things. But the comments that follow (I know, not surprisingly) are a parade of ignorance about veganism. This one by mjzapjr is pretty representative:
Vegan? Yeah, here kids, eat these plants and take these 48 vitamins to fill the big whole [sic] in your daily values.
How about teaching kids to make healthy choices instead of cramming crap down their throats?
Leaving aside the misinformation about “the big whole” veganism would leave in one’s “daily values,” what’s with the contemporary obsession with having ____________ crammed down one’s throat? I guess we’re all Foie gras, eh?
I would also be remiss if I didn’t point out that “crap” isn’t vegan.
