I think it is important and often neglected to take nutrition seriously in conversations on plant forward diets. In particular I think there is a lot of uncritical rejection of the very important nutritional role that animal products currently play in the lives of most people, by several prominent figures- and repeated uncritically by their followers.
However, the argumentation in this argument is pretty fundamentally flawed, This argument is framed as a rejection of an overly prescriptive pathway to improving sustainability and animal welfare (veganism), but rather than concluding with the nutritional challenges that need attention, it seems to present its own equally prescriptive, but far less accessible, diet in it's place. If... (read 904 more words →)
I think it is important and often neglected to take nutrition seriously in conversations on plant forward diets. In particular I think there is a lot of uncritical rejection of the very important nutritional role that animal products currently play in the lives of most people, by several prominent figures- and repeated uncritically by their followers.
However, the argumentation in this argument is pretty fundamentally flawed, This argument is framed as a rejection of an overly prescriptive pathway to improving sustainability and animal welfare (veganism), but rather than concluding with the nutritional challenges that need attention, it seems to present its own equally prescriptive, but far less accessible, diet in it's place. If... (read 904 more words →)