Tag Archives: flexitarian

why being vegan can be bad for you

I had writ­ten some notes on this topic a while back, but I lost them, so here goes noth­ing. You might have guessed from the topic of this post that I was going to write about why the vegan diet is not nutri­tion­ally ade­quate. That actu­ally isn’t the main rea­son why I think being vegan

why I became vegan

Here’s the sec­ond in a series of posts on veg­e­tar­i­an­ism & ani­mal wel­fare. If you spend any time at all in the veg*n (veg­e­tar­ian and/or vegan) areas of the inter­net (web­sites, blogs, mes­sage boards), you learn the ide­o­log­i­cal ter­ri­tory pretty quickly. For peo­ple who rec­og­nize and take seri­ously the eth­i­cal prob­lems sur­round­ing food ani­mal pro­duc­tion,