To think that maybe being vegan could've stopped this.

[Scapegoatforlife]

See the link and post

www.instagram.com/p/B9uiHGJl5xo/?igshid=ae9keny8um35


In short : COVID-19 was caused by eating animals (bats)

Ebola, swine flu, bird flu , HIV , SARS and VCJD were caused by eating animals.

COVID-19 and the like would not exist had we not eaten them.

And each one has caused an epidemic of some sorts, whether that be globally or on a social scale.

After doing my own research I'm definitely going to be incorporating more vegan food into my diet and then transitioning fully.

I KNOW this is about the C word, however it's an AIBU and let's be honest people post non relevant stuff in here all the time and dont get policed for it.

[Margay]

“ Fruit and veg are not vegan food. They are food.”

😂

[PickAChew]

All dried pasta is vegan

Except for the dried pasta with egg in it.

[PickAChew]

Or squid ink.

[PurpleDaisies]

To be fair, the vast, vast majority of dried pasta doesn’t contain egg. I can’t remember ever seeing squid ink pasta in Tesco.

[Reginabambina]

Well not eating wild bats for whatever reason would most likely have prevented it. But any animal contact carries a risk of this kind of thing, including keeping pets.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

People who eat vegan and vegetarian diets have a lower risk of heart disease and a higher risk of stroke, a major study suggests

Actually I am sure I have seen recently that a study showed that if you eat fruit and cheese it lowers your risk of stroke as well.

Don’t forget vegetarian/Vegan diets also lowers your risk of certain types of cancers as well.

Yes there are people who can’t eat a vegetarian or vegan diet but then I have come to realise over the years that I can’t eat a diet with meat in it.
I am sure I am not the only one

I didn’t realise that meat was the problem until I went vegetarian.
Decided to try it as a New Years resolution and would try just eating vegetarian for the whole of January one year.

I never ate anything with meat in ever again.

I would like for a study to be done on D&V in children.
How many fully vegetarian children (not those who claim to be vegetarian but eat fish and chicken) have cases of D&V against those that eat meat.

My whole childhood was one long D&V up to the point I was given 6 weeks to live because of a serious consequence that I think was partially caused by eating meat.
At the time I was a 5.5 stone teen in so much pain and dropping weight rapidly

Quite an extreme example but so many of the children dc knew were always off school with D&V or anecdotes of how when on holiday they would be confined to their hotel room for a day or 2 because of stomach problems.

I don’t think my children have cast iron stomachs but Dc have been brought up vegetarian (now both vegan) and like other fully vegetarian children we have met over the years have never had one incidence of D&V ever

[BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser]

I've grew up with meat and had d&v episodes VERY rarely. Unlike my sibling who had salmonella number of times. I could eat things which were very much off and nothing would happen. My first food poisoning (mild) was when I was nearly 30 (my own fault too). However, I grew up with minimum of highly processed food. I don't think it's meat itself what's the problem. As with other things I believe that some modern processes are making some things essentially non digestable. White flour is killing my belly last few years. I suspect the bleaching process.
I felt similar to what some of you describe by scrapping as much of highly processed food as possible from my diet after I turned to them when moving to UK.

[MarieFromStTropez]

My vegan DC have never had D&V. And I haven’t since we went vegan. Furthermore, DH used to suffer from high cholesterol, palpitations and chest pain. All disappeared when we went vegan. And I was diagnosed with IBS 18 years ago. Again, completely disappeared when we went vegan.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser you say you had D&V rarely but you did have episodes of it.

Being vegan like MarieFromStTropez and myself going vegetarian are saying is that you never get any, not just occasionally.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

Also I grew up in an era before processed foods and supermarkets.
Even the few items that would be considered processed we didn’t eat. Either because it was expensive or because it was just not how we cooked so for me it was definitely meat being the main problem for me

[Graciebobcat]

a diet of rice, soy beans and vegetables

Sounds good to me!

[BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser]

@Oliversmumsarmy I am sorry, but EVERYONE would end up with d&v when in camp where EVERYONE (120 ppl) got it from something. There was no escape😂 Fond memories of that for some reason. That's the only times. One every 2 years for a decade. And the food poisoning unless you count throwing up from car sickness when young
We never had norovirus or smth at school. I know because I asked mum after I first encountered the "there is a norovirus around" in UK and was bit about it

[BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser]

However, as I said above. Different diets suit different bodies and not everyone can be on same diet. So while it's great you feel better, it won't suit me. And vice versa. And that's fine, because we are all different and so are our bowels. As long as person is personally happy, good for them

[differentnameforthis]

@Rhubarbpeony Thanks for that!

[nannybeach]

Noro or Christmas vomiting virus goes around every year, from roughly October to the following March,spreads like wildfire. You can catch lots of nasty bugs from salad and veg, remember people dying last year from the bagged salad.

[differentnameforthis]

Are we really have a fucking argument over whether you get D&V as a vegan?

Anecdotes don't = data.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

Noro or Christmas vomiting virus goes around every year, from roughly October to the following March,spreads like wildfire. You can catch lots of nasty bugs from salad and veg, remember people dying last year from the bagged salad

But again we have never caught it.

Everything is anecdotal till it is researched

I bet the first studies on smoking causing cancer came after people started noticing that people who smoked suddenly started dying from lung cancer

Even then people who smoked were just saying it was anecdotal and not true

[vodkaredbullgirl]

As usual scapegoat pisses off