What are the dumbest things you’ve heard about a “vegan diet”?

[foundsheep]

@orthogulf B12 has to be supplemented due to modern farming methods. The only reason meat eaters get b12 without supplementation is because they eat animals that were given b12 supplements. B12 is produced by a bacteria in soil, and due to heavy pesticide use our soil no longer has that bacteria. Some plant milks and cereals are fortified with b12, if you are bad at remembering to take supplements.

 

[animusph]

@foundsheep And due to the adequate cleaning of the produce we eat, which is a great trade off because we don’t get sick because our food is cleaner. So it’s great that we can just take a supplement that’s so darn cheap and easy

 

[celticpiping]

@animusph We could also eat our own poop to get B12 like many herbivorous animals do, but I think I'd rather stick with supplements!

Vitamin B12 and Nonhuman Animals – Vegan Health
https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/vitamin-b12-and-nonhuman-animals/

Hares, rabbits, and some rodents eat their fecal pellets, which provide an opportunity to obtain vitamins produced by bacteria in their digestive tracts (1).

 

[animusph]

@celticpiping

 

[celticpiping]

@foundsheep Not entirely true, it is primarily produced by bacteria in the rumen (fermentation stomach) of ruminant animals like cows or sheep - but cobalt may be supplemented to ruminants to help them with this. However the majority of B12 supplements do go to animals, especially for monogastric animals like chickens and pigs, so it's easiest for us to just take a B12 supplement regularly ourselves instead.

 

[vellaswin]

@blindly28 It's so hard to pick just one, but my favorite is when people think they have some special metabolism or mysterious, unnamed medical condition that requires them to eat meat and for which there are no side effects or symptoms except needing to eat meat.

 

[blindly28]

@vellaswin The amount of times I’ve heard that

 

[ramy6et]

@vellaswin Good one

 

[heidi1]

@blindly28 In Germany there‘s a federal financed Youtube channel that informs about nutrition and is run by a food chemist. In their last video, they „exposed“ vegan burgers. So they showed the ones of McDonalds and Burger King and then their chemist made patties out of pea protein. In the end they said, due to the burgers being highly processed, they‘re lacking all the Vitamins, etc. That peas usually contain. Well, no shit? Now tell me how to get all those vitamins with a meat burger patty.

 

[psycrexprism]

@blindly28 I went to a cookout at my family’s. Had my dad put a Field Roast hot dog on the grill. An aunt comes over and asks about it. Says she ‘could never eat vegan shit because of all the chemicals’. Meanwhile she’s smoking a cigarette…

 

[syl4jesus]

@blindly28 "Hey, I'm vegan, too! It's so good knowing another vegan in the office, everybody looks shocked when I say that I only eat fish. Now it's two of us! I'm ordering a salmon poke for lunch, should I order one for my new vegan friend, too?"

 

[steve2219]

@blindly28 Number 1. Where do you get your protein.

 

[amieeee]

@blindly28 ‘Are bananas vegan?’
‘You can’t get enough nutrients from just vegetables’
‘I had to stop being vegan/vegetarian for my health’
‘Your parents abused you by raising you vegetarian’ (they gave me the option not be)
‘Seed oils are bad and vegans eat them’
‘Raw milk is better than any other milk’

Also the whole not eating soy because of ‘estrogen’.

People are just so freaking dumb.

 

[blindly28]

@amieeee ARE BANANAS VEGAN? that’s so funny I can’t

 

[mom4kids2]

@blindly28 I was recently told I’ll get osteoporosis because I don’t drink milk. And another person, a full time smoker in her 70s who eats Burger King at least once a week, told me you can’t get protein on a vegan diet. I’m 18% body fat and run marathons, meanwhile she’s coughing up flame grilled bullshit…

 

[jhonydeck]

@blindly28 The soil has been depleted of minerals and nutrients so plants today aren’t as rich in nutrients as in the past!

Q: So where are the animals you eat getting their nutrients from?
A: Oh I don’t know I’m not an expert…

 

[animusph]

@blindly28 The one is see perpetuated so much is how soy will give you estrogen. This one hurts my brain so hard. I know they are just regurgitating what a fake doctor said on youtube, and I know they’re too lazy to educate themselves about it. So sometimes I don’t even try to rebut the completely ignorant statement. Sometimes I do and their whole world of food and nutrition gets blown up.

 

[de_maria]

@blindly28 -Can't get enough protein, or protein literally completely worthless because of amino acid ratio

-Soy products will fuck you up

-Only rich people eat plant-only diets

-Someone eating faux meats or things with a meat-comparable umami taste is a sign they basically have carnist envy

-Saying people who raise their children vegan (i.e. raise their children with the family's values, as everyone does) are abusive (caveat: I'm applying this to ethical vegans who actually give the kids a normal, balanced diet, not fringe weirdos who only eat fruit or have other inappropriate diets based on plants)

-The food is bland, uninspired, and uninviting

 

[trueblood]

@blindly28 Could write a book. The latest one is “vegetarians die younger. It is a fact” but the dumbest one may be “this is not why my ancestors climb the evolution ladder” like typical cis het guy thinking he is a wolf or a shark

 

[blindly28]

@trueblood All of those types of men want to be lions so bad