Meanwhile in India, meat-free diets have been mainstream since the 6th Century BCE...
Meat free does not equal Vegan. If you can eat eggs and dairy it's far easier to get the nutrients that you need than if you completely shun all animal products. That means no eggs, no milk, no cheese, no honey...
Even with such animal supplements, 75% of Indians suffer from vitamin deficiency [indiatimes.com]. The dependency on animal food is even stronger in Westerners, as populations that traditionally eat enough meat are genetically [cornell.edu] incapable of coping with the lack.
And that's vegetarian diet, not vegan. For vegans, there's more and more calls to forbid that diet to children and adolescents.
I worked for a number of years for a group led by vegans many were raw vegans. They didn't force anyone working for them to go vegan but a fair amount of influence was used. I was amoung the non-vegan group. I have to say the vegans seems to get sick more often and those could afford it consumed a lot of supplements to makeup for what the diet didn't provide. The vegans tended to be health obsessed so were also the ones that did exercise regularly, which probably did more for them than being vega
Meanwhile in India, meat-free diets have been mainstream since the 6th Century BCE...
Meat free does not equal Vegan. If you can eat eggs and dairy it's far easier to get the nutrients that you need than if you completely shun all animal products. That means no eggs, no milk, no cheese, no honey...
Even with such animal supplements, 75% of Indians suffer from vitamin deficiency [indiatimes.com]. The dependency on animal food is even stronger in Westerners, as populations that traditionally eat enough meat are genetically [cornell.edu] incapable of coping with the lack.
And that's vegetarian diet, not vegan. For vegans, there's more and more calls to forbid that diet to children and adolescents.
I worked for a number of years for a group led by vegans many were raw vegans. They didn't force anyone working for them to go vegan but a fair amount of influence was used. I was amoung the non-vegan group. I have to say the vegans seems to get sick more often and those could afford it consumed a lot of supplements to makeup for what the diet didn't provide. The vegans tended to be health obsessed so were also the ones that did exercise regularly, which probably did more for them than being vega