Vegans? Or vegetarians? There's an enormous difference, nutritionally, between the two. I have known quite a few vegans over the past 36 years -- a college roommate and dear friend for decades was the first vegan I ever knew, and I knew her for 25 years and watched her health steadily deteriorate, deteriorate, deteriorate, though she blamed it on EVERYTHING but the stoooooooopid diet she decided to make her life's habit when had reached the wise age of 18 -- we all remember how smart we were at 18!
The vegan diet is for very stupid people and it is Darwinism in action. A human baby will die on a vegan diet, while a human baby will survive healthily on a vegetarian diet, though I think evidence is overwhelming that human children THRIVE on a diet that includes meat. Human children cannot become fully vegan until they are about five -- and when those children are forced to become vegan, they get big gray circles under their eyes, and are wan, listless, and dull. I HAVE SEEN MANY VEGAN CHILDREN. Vegan adults are so emotionally vested in the vanity of being vegan that they WILL HARM THEIR OWN CHILDREN to make a political point. I've SEEN it over and over and over again.
I worked a four-month temp job about ten years ago in an office with six women where three of us were meat-eaters, and the other three were vegetarians. Not vegan, but vegetarian! Clearly, they did not understand nutrition enough to eat "smart" vegetarian (it's ALL chemistry, nutrition IS ALL CHEMISTRY), but just figured they could eat anything they wanted as long as it wasn't meat, and they'd be fine. So in that four measly months that I was there, the three vegetarians each called in sick AT LEAST three times, and all three of them had "issues" with allergies. LOTS of allergies.
Of we three meat-eaters, NOT ONE SICK DAY in those four months, although one did miss a day because of some dental work. We meat-eaters used to discuss the "superior health" of the vegetarian diet and laugh ... out of earshot of the vegetarians, of course.
Vegetarian is okay, though -- many vegetarian cultures (Hindus, for example) around the world have survived and even thrived for centuries, because they know the chemistry of proper nutrition and the tiny bits of animal protein (dairy, eggs) necessary to maintain human health. VEGAN, however, is a dead end nutritionally if you are homo sapiens. There are exactly ZERO vegan civilizations in world history. The reason: any vegan civilization would last for exactly 1.5 generations, and then die.
We don't get to choose to skip animal protein because we don't want to "hurt animals" any more than we get to choose to ignore gravity because we'd rather fly. Vegan is a little-girl mentality, the little girl who wants a pony and just knows that the pony can live in the backyard!!! "It can, it can, it can because I WANT it to!!!"
Vegans are stupid. Adult vegans who subject children to veganism, are indulging in child abuse.
They are vegetarian and have been for years.
Think I read recently about a case of a child who was fed vegan and died.
Personally I could do without red meat, even white meat and just do wild caught fish but might be too hard for me to be a real vegetarian. However, based on the people I know I ought to try it.
I did read an article by an English guy who for years couldn’t bring himself to eat meat and he had over a decade of unexplained illnesses. Finally he ate some meat and in less than a week he was way better. It was quite interesting - maybe your personal chemistry defines if you can survive without meat or not.