You know, it’s so obvious that you didn’t actually read any of these before you posted them, which means I have to waste my time doing your homework for you, and that really irks me. But you see, unlike you, I actually, at the very least, will skim an article before posting.
Let’s take this one by one, shall we?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/11/italian-baby-fed-vegan-diet-hospitalized-for-malnutrition/
Your first source claims with a big splashy headline that a child died due to a vegan diet. There are no specifics in the article about what the child was actually fed, which is suspicious, but it does cite similar cases. However, in all of these similar cases, the babies were fed things like “soy milk and apple juice”. Well no shit your kid died, they weren’t even being fed real food. This would have happened to any child, vegan or not. It even says this in the article, which you would know if you had gone down more than halfway. The very same article cites the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, which, indeed, agrees that a well planned vegetarian or vegan diet is suitable for all stages of life, including pregnant mothers and very young children.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18574603/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/vegan-couple-sentenced-life-over-babys-death/#.WfCtDmhSxPY
Same goes for this one. This is actually the soy milk and apple juice story cited from the previous article. The prosecutor against the couple even says himself, and I quote, “No matter how many times they want to say, ‘We’re vegans, we’re vegetarians,’ that’s not the issue in this case… The child died because he was not fed. Period.” This article is, what, ten short paragraphs and you still couldn’t be arsed to read it?
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/why-vegan-diets-suck
This article goes into a bit more detail, mainly claiming that vegans are prone to deficiencies simply by virtue of being vegan. This is not the case. Yes, you can become deficient in certain nutrients as a vegan… or as a meat eater, or vegetarian, or pescetarian, etc. This has nothing to do with a vegan diet and more to do with eating a diversified, whole-foods diet, which, when consisting of purely plant-based foods, is, once again, perfectly healthy for all stages of life.
The B12 bit especially irks me, since B12 does not naturally occur in plants or animals; it’s synthesized by bacteria. What’s more, the livestock that are bred and killed for food also have to be supplemented for B12. In fact, there are far more B12 deficient meat eaters than vegans. It’s also estimated that a large section of the North American population does not meet nutritional requirements in general. Obviously, most of North America eats meat, so if meat is so healthy why is there such a large discrepancy?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160316194551.htm
This article sources a Gallup poll as its main source of information, enough said.
What’s more, it says that vegans are at risk of certain key vitamins, not that they will be. See the previous response. You could literally do a 5 second Google search of vegan sources of iron, calcium, vitamin D, B12, Omega-3, and everyone’s favorite, protein, which is, I might add, basically impossible to be deficient in if you’re eating enough food.
http://www.healthnewsline.net/4966-2/2534966/
See the above response, because you’re literally repeating the same shit over and over at this point.
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/protein-building-blocks-of-the-body/
This article is mostly explaining what protein is and how it works, but the main thing is that it argues that animal proteins are the only “complete” proteins, therefore we must eat animal protein in order to get all essential amino acids. In fact, the idea of “incomplete” vs. “complete” proteins is a myth, started by a woman named Frances Moore Lappe writing in her book who was not a physiologist, nutritionist, or doctor, but an otherwise well-meaning sociologist wanting to end world hunger; she even retracted her original statement 10 years after her book was published.
Now even if it wasn’t a myth, North Americans actually are eating way too much protein, which is linked to health problems such as kidney disease, some types of cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease. North Americans, on the other hand, are not getting nearly enough fiber on average, which - surprise, surprise! - only comes from plants.
Here’s some more sources for you in case that wasn’t enough:
Meat and cheese linked to earlier death
NHS position on vegan diets
US National Library of Medicine on vegan diets
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on vegan diets
Meat consumption and cancer risk
UN report on red meat and cancer
WHO classes processed meat as class 1 carcinogen (on the same level as cigarettes and formaldehyde) and red meat as a class 2
Animal products are the only source of cholesterol
Dairy and cardiovascular disease
Problems with dairy products
Now, I’m no fool. I know that you’re infamous on tumblr for being an Edgy™ bastard, and maybe responding to you is me feeding the troll. Hell, I know you probably won’t read any of this; you might even block me if you haven’t already. You’re too much of a stubborn asshole to even consider the idea of veganism.
However, you still somehow hold a lot of influence on this site, and I just couldn’t let your misinformed and just plain false bullshit go by and have people join you in the anti-vegan circlejerk that’s prevalent on this website, at least not uncontested.
You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, and you’re a stubborn, abrasive moron. So shoo fly, you bother me.
