Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Imposing Vegan Diet Could Land Parents In Prison" video.

No, veganism is a problem for humans. It's not a healthy way of managing your diet. But, for adults we allow people to eat all sorts of unhealthy diets without interference. The problem is when you're indoctrinating children to eat something that's not healthy. Parents are in a unique position to withhold proper nourishment and hence the need for a specific law telling vegans that they'll be held legally responsible if their diet choices result in their children being malnourished.
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Vegan diets are nutritionally deficient and nutritional deficiencies in childhood and even before your born have consequences into the future. Unfortunately, there's much less room for error when it comes to proper nutrition in childhood and as such, fad diets like veganism are not appropriate for children. For adults it's possible to spend a lot of money on tests and supplements and obscure fruits and vegetables and largely work around the nutrient content that plants can't provide, but there's ultimately a price to be paid for disrespecting the body.
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Moravian Wallachia No, it's due to veganism. Our digestive tracks are significantly shorter than what's typical for an herbivore so we can't really make the best use of plant matter. I'm not aware of any species of animal that is born vegetarian. At any rate it's not common. Even cows consume animal products during their early weeks before going vegan. A child will literally starve to death on vegan diet during those first few months because mother's milk is designed to be the most efficient method of getting nutrition into the baby. Older children are a bit less of a problem, but a toddler has a very small stomach. Hence why they get done eating so quickly and are hungry again so soon. Their stomachs are proportionally smaller than an adults. Not to mention that during those first few years children grow more than they will at any point. I mean they'll pretty much double in size and then double again before they're 18. A vegan diet is just not suitable for children without major modifications. And I"m deeply skeptical that it's even possible to modify it enough not to represent a health risk.
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First off, the burden of proof here is on vegans to demonstrate that their diet is sound. We have literally millenia of human experience that demonstrates that a well-balanced diet of meats, animal products and plant matter works. There's examples all over the world. Examples of vegans are much more localized and much more recent. At this stage we're still establishing what precisely it is that makes a diet healthy. But, with that being said, vegan diets are typically deficient in fats, cholesterol, B-12 as well as having more exposure to various anti-nutrients and hormones that come in things like grains and soy. If you think that animal products are bad, just look at what soy and improperly prepared grains do to the body. In short, the "benefits" that people generally tout in the vegan diet usually aren't. Cutting your cholesterol and fat intake has some pretty serious health consequences as cholesterol is what gives your cells their soft rubbery consistency and prevents them from freezing and the best sources of vitamins A, D, E and K are mostly from animals. In some cases, like flax seed oil, the form of nutrients found aren't even usable to humans. But, the forms found in animal based oils are much more easily absorbed. At the end of the day, humans have teeth like we do because we're supposed to be eating meat. Our digestive system isn't anywhere near long enough to be living a purely plant based dietary lifestyle and anybody who chooses to disrespect their body by cutting out the meat and animal products completely is going to cut a few years off their lives in the process. The best dietary advice remains to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables and meat and animal products in moderation. Stray too far from that and you'll get sick.
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There's no science to back that up. The science is pretty clear about the fact that vegans are sacrificing their health by being vegans. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like the B vitamins, cholesterol and fat. It also tends to have too much soy and other ingredients that throw their hormones off. Yeah, there's a bit of a reduction in the risk of heart disease related death. But the rates for all other causes of death increase by enough to more than offset the reduction. Simply put, if you care more about animals than your own health, be a vegan. But, it's a complete lie to suggest that it's healthier than other dietary options. Most of the "benefits" that people cite come from cutting back on meat and animal products.
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It goes beyond that. Look at a model of our digestive track. It's somewhat longer than that of a dedicated carnivore, but it's much, much to short when compared with herbivores. Meaning that we're meant to eat a considerable amount of our calories in the form of meat, but we're also supposed to eat a considerable amount of fruit and vegetables. We shouldn't really be eating grain at all, but we should be eating a combination of nuts, veggies, fruit and meat. Other animal products are kind of questionable. Milk is horrible for our health, but cheese and other animal products are less clear.
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That's not true. They probably said it, but it's based upon old information. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like cholesterol. Cholesterol, you know that thing that testosterone is made out of and that is used by the body to maintain the appropriate amount of flexibility in the veins and arteries. Veganism isn't healthy and has never been demonstrated to be healthy. Also, if we don't need the animal products, then why is it that every society in every part of the world that has ever existed incorporates animal products into their diets? There's a small number of exceptions to the rule like the particularly religious Hindus, but it's never been common anywhere in the world and has always come with health problems.
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The theory under which vegan and vegetarian diets are preferred is based upon the already debunked superstitions that cardiovascular disease is caused by cholesterol levels and that eating fat makes you fat. There's no credible research to back that belief up now. And there wasn't any in the past either. To make matters worse, the foods that people use to substitute for the lost protein are often times horribly unhealthy. Soy is one of the worst things you can be putting into your body as it screws with the whole endocrine system by depressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen levels. A diet with moderate amounts of meat and animal products is the healthiest and most natural diet for humans to be consuming. If you go too far away from that in either direction, you wind up with health problems. But, pretending like the only possible meat eating diets are horribly unhealthy amounts to willful ignorance. It might be possible to eat a vegan diet without major health consequences, but it does require a ton of work and probably information that we don't yet have.
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That's a strawman. You have to eat a ton of meat in order for that to happen. Eating a moderate diet that includes a mixture of animal and plant matter isn't going to kill a person. And it can't just be any meat, it has to be meat that's been modified to no longer reflect it's natural state and eaten in quantities that are abnormal combined with a lack of exercise In fact, I'm going to go to my fridge and eat some meat pizza just because of how obnoxious and ignorant the vegans are being in this topic.
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Citation needed. You're going to have an extremely hard time cobbling together an entire diet of plant matter that provides adequate amounts of bio-available nutrients. It's possible, but you make it sound like it's a walk in the park. Vitamin D deficiency, as an example, can take many years to become apparent and you wouldn't necessarily notice it in the mean time. Hence why vegans often times appear to be malnourished. It's because they often times are because they haven't managed to adequately replace the vitamins and minerals that they've skipped. As long as you're eating meat as part of a generally sensible diet, it's not going to do anything but improve your health. Where people get into trouble is when they eat much more of it than they should be and prepare it in ways that strips the natural nutritional value.
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