[Yaelle]

Vegan isn’t that healthy. Vegetables are fantastic but a lot of vegans eat a ton of starchy carbs that aren’t all that natural or healthful. We need animal protein, though if some really wish to be vegan, that is their choice. Vegetarian, with dairy, eggs, and fish allowed is better.

[leaning conservative]

I could never be a vegan, but my brother brought me to this bakery in Asheville a few years ago. We both got fudge cupcakes w/ fudge frosting & we ate them in his truck. After we finished he told me they were vegan.

How this woman did it I don’t know, but they were moist & buttery & to this day the most fantastic cupcake I’ve ever eaten. Weird but true.

[JohnnyP]

I’m watching a pro-vegan documentary called Forks Over Knives.

Someone posted a free link to it. Skip past the first four or five minutes:

http://www.alluc.ee/l/Forks-Over-Knives-2011-DVDRiP-XViD-TASTE/oyp555tn

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Vegan isn’t that healthy."

Especially now days. There is a huge industry of vegan processed frozen foods. And just like regular processed frozen foods, the vegan counterparts have lots of sodium and sugar.

Many people have this idea of vegans and vegetarians as all looking like the 1960's model Twiggy. Not the case. I've met a lot of fat, not just slightly overweight, but fat vegans....