The vegan lie

Everybody knows that being vegan is not something new but in recent years has become an increasing trend among young people and like every topic that becomes a fashion tends to make a shift into radicalism and fanaticism and i think that now everyone knows, at least, one person that is vegan and has a lot of "informed" arguments about why he/she took that decision, how his/her life has changed, why we need to do the same and also why we need to feel ashamed about the way we are know.

After those encounters you just feel confused because suddenly you don't know what happened and why that person was so aggressive / emotional and ofended by something that you don't have fault. But well we all know those embarrassing situations and that's not the point of this article, my point is to give you an insight of the main reasons that the Vegans use to justify their actions but at the end if you do some research and put some brains into that you realize that everything is just a big lie. 

Being vegan, as a minority, might be good and in some cases "healthy" but if you were responsible for feeding everyone then the things change because to apply something to everyone is a huge challenge and actually behaves in a different way than expected because the variables are even more complex to control than in a small minority that voluntarily stop eating meat.

As engineer it's easy to see the flaws of the Vegan philosophy because every solution we think has to be applicable to every human and living being. So here it is my analysis

1. The vegan diet is a decision.

Each person needs to to and just to apply that philosophy to everyone for the belief that will benefit the earth, animals or us will turn this philosophy into an imposition because you can't force or convince all humans to eat something that you think is right without scientific proof and even that if you prove it if someone doesn't want to eat like you should be enough to respect him and let him be, so veganism is not for everyone.

2. The vegan diet is enough for our development.

The reduction of the diversity of our diet is something we don't know how will impact our health or future generations because humans are omnivorous and that characteristic allows us to adapt to changes and allows us to have a different development than herbivores or carnivores. Besides, the fact of including meat into our diet was fundamental for the development of our brains and the increase of our size through generations. Just look at some studies about the size of all human civilizations through the centuries and size and meat consumption is directly related. Just Europeans increase their size in less than 200 years just by making meat available for everyone.
So, it's not so clear how a vegan diet will affect future generations and the facts let us see that the changes will not be positive for all.

3. A vegan society will use the land in a more efficient way and will end hunger in the world.

That's also something that is not proven and actually, just like reducing the diversity of food will be harmful the same applies to crops because you reduce the rotation of land use which directly impacts production and makes you waste land. So, another reason that it's not true. you can see more about that in this article Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think

4. Being vegan save animals from suffering are we are good with them.

There is no animal that his only existence is 100% good and also I don't see a Lion thinking in how much harm a zebra feels when they are killing her while she is still alive in front of all her family and even kids, right? that sense of suffering and good or bad is an invention of humans and it changes based on our values or point of view, at the end is just in our heads but it's not real. 

All animals and species have positive and negative effects in the environment and humans are not the exception because we do a lot of harm but also other species benefit from us so that idea is just laughable. Besides, all the animals that are directly related to human existence are not able to survive without us so if we just stop being like we are will, in fact, kill and extinct more animals that just keep doing what we do so at the end is not "protecting" animals is just protecting the animals that vegans think are worth it based on their limited understanding of how things work.

5. Being vegan is being a better and different human being.

Well that's the has a partial truth vegan might be right, in some cases, but vegans're not "different" they are just like everyone else but they thinks that their existence helps to humanity but, normally, they didn't studied something to help humanity actually they're just a self-centered persons that thinks that the world have to listen to them because somehow they are right and we don't.

In conclusion, this article is not to make you think that we should exterminate vegans but is to give you another approach of how the things work and to point into the idea that diversity is, so far, the best option that we have to enjoy a healthy, balanced and enjoyable existences as humans and society so at the end the decision is yours.

Have a nice day

Luis O