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Government warns of dangers of vegan diet [Germany]
TheLocal.de ^ | 22 Aug 2016 15:31 GMT+02:00

Posted on 08/22/2016 7:49:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The German government has warned that in some circumstances a vegan diet can be harmful to a person’s health, as the non-meat, non-dairy lifestyle experiences a boom in Berlin.

“A purely plant-based diet makes it more difficult to give the body some of the important nutrients it needs,” the government statement from last week reads.

Vitamin B12 is a particularly important nutrient that is almost exclusively present in meat, the statement adds, explaining that the only way vegans can consume it is by taking supplementary pills. …

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bundestag; cobalamin; cyanocobalamin; diet; germany; meat; vegan; vitaminb12
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1 posted on 08/22/2016 7:49:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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No need for a govt announcement. Let the vegans figure it out.


2 posted on 08/22/2016 7:51:23 AM PDT by lurk (T)
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To: Olog-hai

Then I would like to recommend this diet to all our liberal friends.


3 posted on 08/22/2016 7:52:37 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: lurk
No need for a govt announcement. Let the vegans figure it out.

The problem with that is in some cases cognitive function becomes impaired, and they still get to vote.
4 posted on 08/22/2016 7:52:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: Olog-hai

The primary danger of a vegan diet is you grow dreadlocks and become stupid. Multiculturalism becomes self-evident to you and you become unable to see the irony of screaming and cursing at people because they are intolerant.


5 posted on 08/22/2016 7:52:57 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Olog-hai

Vegan diet leaves to underdevelopment of a country’s alpha males. Makes a country susceptible to invasion by Islamic hordes. Look what is happening!


6 posted on 08/22/2016 7:53:06 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Black's jobs matter!)
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To: lurk

That’s like gays figuring out that their “lifestyle” is harmful. Only the rare few do.

Remarkable to see a government take a stand on veganism at all.


7 posted on 08/22/2016 7:53:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Vegan diet leads to underdevelopment of a country’s alpha males. Makes a country susceptible to invasion by Islamic hordes. Look what is happening!


8 posted on 08/22/2016 7:53:50 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Black's jobs matter!)
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To: lurk

Some already have. There’s a good book out there by Nina Teicholz, The Big Fat Surprise.


9 posted on 08/22/2016 7:54:39 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Olog-hai

Funny they have warnings of vegan diet when obviously that is not a big health risk compared to what the illegal immigrants may do to them.


10 posted on 08/22/2016 7:55:00 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Olog-hai; MeganC
I am a second hand Vegetarian.

The Animals eat the plants and I eat the Animals.

11 posted on 08/22/2016 8:04:02 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: Olog-hai

Talk about distraction. “Don’t worry about the Muslims blowing themselves up in movie theaters, raping your children, or shooting you. A Vegan diet is what’s really scary.”


12 posted on 08/22/2016 8:04:18 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: ModelBreaker

Lions and tigers who exist on an all-meat diet seems to do okay. Maybe it’s because they eat vegans. :0)


13 posted on 08/22/2016 8:05:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

Humans are omnivores. Why fight it?


14 posted on 08/22/2016 8:05:43 AM PDT by American Guesser
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To: American Guesser

A lot of this anti-meat craze came from pagan religions, especially those with the notion of animals in certain cases being reincarnated human relatives.


15 posted on 08/22/2016 8:07:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: KC_Lion

Same here, I eat grass fed beef!


16 posted on 08/22/2016 8:10:16 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: lurk

If it results in significant malnutrition and developmental harm to their babies and children, it’s child abuse.


17 posted on 08/22/2016 8:12:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It is better to better to be slapped with the Truth than to be kissed with a Lie."- Yiddish proverb)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; All
Such as malnutrition and/or death, you mean?
18 posted on 08/22/2016 8:16:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Gaffer

“Lions and tigers who exist on an all-meat diet seems to do okay. Maybe it’s because they eat vegans. :0)”

In that case, the Vegans have converted low-quality vegetable protein into high-quality meat protein for the lions. I guess that’s a public service in a sense. Lions are an endangered species!


19 posted on 08/22/2016 8:17:02 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Olog-hai
Germany. Where you can go to a butcher shop and enjoy meat just by sense of smell.


20 posted on 08/22/2016 8:17:14 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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