'he should be ashamed and embarrassed of being this gullible, and so ignorant about science.
he is a member of a species which is designed to be omnivorous. If he wants to eat differently he needs to ensure that he gets the right nutrients. Without using food supplements which are not 'natural'. Let him get on with it as long as he cooks his own food. If the sight of a chicken upsets him, he needs to grow up.'
specialsubject, I don't say this lightly, you should be ashamed of how deeply, deeply stupid and ignorant you sound. Your post is the most utterly ignorant and uneducated thing I have ever read on mumsnet. Are you honestly this dense, not to mention uncaring, about most things?
Imagine making a choice about your diet that shows you care about your health, and animal welfare! How shameful. OP, you should be proud of your husband. A vegan diet is one of the healthiest on the planet.
Sadly, as evidenced on this thread, most meat eaters will desperately cling on their 'belief' that humans should eat meat and that the little cows and lambs they eat frolic about in a pretty green field before trotting off to the lovely slaughterhouse where a kind man gently puts a bolt through their head. It's about as real as Santa, but admitting that would mean facing the truth about the absolute horror that goes into the meat and dairy that we consume. Far easier to label vegans freaks and weirdos. Even though you're the ones stuffing dead animals and their produce in your mouths.
Oh, I forgot. We're meant to eat meat, because we always have done. There are lots of things that humans used to do, because it was necessary, that we don't do any more. We don't think it's ok for husbands to rape their wives, or for white people to enslave blacks. We move on, and progress as humans. But some people insist in remaining cavemen, and insisting we 'need' meat. We don't. Educate yourselves.
Some of the worlds healthiest, strongest athletes are vegans. You do not need meat or dairy to be healthy, and it can make you incredibly unhealthy. There is nothing you can't get in a vegan diet, except for vitamin b12 which can be taken in supplement form, and plenty of shit you can get from a meat eating diet that vegans rarely suffer from - heart disease, types of cancer, and other disorders. If people just had the courage to find out where their food actually comes from, and what it's doing to them they'd be far less quick to call vegans, weirdos. But they prefer to sling pathetic insults at the few people who do choose to stick to their principles, and who know that we have absolutely no right as a species to inflict pain and suffering on another species just for our own enjoyment - because, as I said, we have no need to eat meat and dairy.
There is so much you can eat as a vegan, and in the five years I have been one I have never felt so energetic and healthy. I do not miss meat or dairy at all. It incenses me to see the mind blowing ignorance around veganism though.