I drew a picture of this post on my vision board and it appeared. Explain THAT!

Great post!

Superman exists if you take a picture of him and put it on a board and stare at it. True story!

Much more eloquent then my explanation: A teacher will tell you when you are full of shit and trust me... we need that.

As they say with gardening, "tend the soil, not the plant."

I'm glad that you said up front that a vegan diet is healthier than the Standard American Diet (SAD). The last part seems to get lost in the literature. What I'd like to know is if the water usage numbers are from the factory farming of cattle or what we can call SAD meat. Do these numbers differ with local, grass fed, pasture raised cattle?

Exactly.

Thank you for this wonderful piece! I love that you simply explain why you are who you are. The key is to be okay with who you are, knowing that you are a very important piece of the puzzle, meat-eater or not.

I do quite a bit of work at Haskell!

You are citing to Google? Obviously you don't know that I am a reference librarian and have read the studies. The two studies that are always cited two are referred to The British Study and the China Study. The scientists behind the British study just admitted fudging the numbers to fit their theories. Google that.

And the China Study has been debunked.

So when you do research, I suggest you go beyond Google and look to see if who you are relying on has an agenda.

FYI, I am not against veganism. I'm just against lying to people and this is at worst a lie, at best an unsubstantiated belief.

An omnivore who eats whole, organic foods is healthier than a vegan who eats processed meat substitutes. Meat is NOT the source of our dietary problems. Over-processing is. Factory farming is. But to say that it's the consumption of meat? That's pushing an ideological agenda that has no basis in reality.

The only study that has ever been produced stating that a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle is healthier is The China Study and that piece was full of holes, completely ignoring any form of scientific method. The only people who rely on the study are vegans. The scientific and health community have torn it to shreds.