Posted on 08/10/2017 4:08:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Veganism in Britain has increased by 360 percent over the last ten years, as healthy eating takes a hold amid a widespread obesity epidemic.
In order to cut the risk of health related diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and stroke, many are turning to a plant-based diet.
This involves cutting out all animal products, including meat, eggs and milk.
Just 150,000 people followed a vegan diet in 2006, but that number rose to 542,000 in 2016. As a result, veganism is now the fastest growing lifestyle movement ever.
Vegan study - Verdict Even The World Health Organisation have turned their back on many meat products in recent years. Processed meats, such as bacon and sausages, have been listed alongside arsenic and asbestos as cancer-causing substances.
It’s understandable why people are so concerned. And yet, eager to save meat-eaters from impending doom, pushy vegans are putting many people off.
Vegan study shows people are put off by pushiness
A recent study looked into why meat-eaters are unwilling to adopt a vegan diet.
In total, 2,363 adult Brits provided an insight into why recent health warnings haven’t been enough to put them off of tucking into a burger or steak.
Vegan study - Verdict The top reasons for continuing to eat meat were:
I like the taste of meat too much (81 percent) Meat substitutes are too expensive (58 percent) I’d struggle for meal ideas (50 percent) My family eat meat and wouldn’t consider going vegetarian or vegan with me (41 percent) All four of those reasons are understandable. You would expect concerns related to money, convenient and enjoyment to top the list. However, the fifth most popular reason is somewhat more surprising.
The study revealed that 26 percent of people in the UK are put off of switching to a healthy diet because “the attitude of certain vegetarians/vegans has put me off”.
Dubbed ‘vegan aggression’, 37 percent of those questioned believe that vegans view their way as the only way.
Likewise, 25 percent of respondents claimed to have been lectured about their diet by pushy vegans, who are keen to introduce others to their healthy way of life.
Yet, it seems that these eager vegans are having the opposite effect.
Vegan study - Verdict
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As the study shows, there is a popular belief that vegans are pushy about their movement. A quick search for ‘vegan aggression’ will throw up terms such as self-righteous, unbalanced and obnoxious.
Despite its rising popularity, there are still many negative associations with veganism.
There might be something in it. A study conducted by researchers at McGill University in Canada anticipated that images of meat would increase aggressive behaviour in men. However, their results showed that meat actually calms men down.
Although, as is usually the case, rather than plant-induced anger, these attitudes towards vegans are likely the result of a small minority of aggressive vegans that have tarnished the reputation of many.
Probing Question: Does talking to plants help them grow?
“There isn’t a lot of research in this area,” says Rich Marini, head of Penn State’s horticulture department, “But there is evidence that plants respond to sound.” In fact, plants react readily to a host of environmental stimuli, as the ability to respond to changing environments is vital to their survival. Explains Marini, “Wind or vibration will induce changes in plant growth. Since sound is essentially vibration, my guess is that vibration is causing a response.”
Research supports Marini’s guess. A 2007 paper from scientists at South Korea’s National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology proposed that two genes involved in a plant’s response to light—known as rbcS and Ald—are turned on by music played at 70 decibels. “This is about the level of a normal conversation,” says Marini. The Korean researchers found differing responses depending on the frequency of the sound. The higher the frequency, the more active was the gene response. ...”
Except predator birds like eagles.
“In a month-long study performed by the Royal Horticultural Society, researchers discovered that talking to your plants really can help them grow faster. They also found that plants grow faster to the sound of a female voice than to a male voice.
In the month-long study, the Royal Horticultural Society recorded ten people reading from either literary or scientific works, both men and women, and played their voices through a set of headphones that was attached to each tomato plant’s pot (so, one tomato plant per person.) The same tomato variety was used, same soil, same care regimen, etc.
They also included two plants that were not read to as a control. At the end of the month, the plants that had been attached to female voices grew an average of an inch taller than those attached to a male voice. The overall winning tomato listened to Sarah Darwin, great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Her plant grew approximately two inches taller than the rest.”
https://www.thespruce.com/should-you-talk-to-your-plants-3972298
Sugar, bread, grains, rice, potatoes, corn and peas are plants or made from plants. Every one of those plants causes health problems such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and heart attacks.
"You don’t need to kill the animal, either, if you make use of its milk products and eggs."
A tv personality once freaked over eating eggs because they were aborted chickens...
Oops! Sorry. Posted that to the wrong thread!
Have you made a homemade Big Mac Salad? Tastes just like McD’s without the bun. Really good.
Potatos and other tubers are very important sources of resistant starch which our gut bugs actually need. Eaten without being fried and dipped in a ton of bad things, they are a healthy part of a diet.
There is not much need for grains. Seeds can fulfill the few nutritious things they have for less harm. However, let’s be real, this stiff wheat flour is VERY handy for holding its shape. And breads and cakes and such are ok as a tiny treat part of the diet.
If processed foods are 90% avoided, your diet is pretty healthy.
If it’s so healthy, then why do they have to lie so much push this agenda? Why do they ignore all the health problems associated with it?
Agreed. Vegetarianism is not so bad.
What I love is the west side ladies who claim they never eat mammals or some BS. Invariably, they are carrying a leather bag.
Partly it is for health and partly for the sheer fun of doing it.
I am trying to get it so that we have the full "circle of life" going.
While we could feed a vegetarian, especially if they were willing to eat eggs, it would be impossible to feed a vegan.
The soil NEEDS animal poop, blood and bones to grow healthy plants.
I agree with you on the leather thing. It is even more fun when it is vinyl and you point out that it is made from oil and oil comes from dead animals. When they protest that those animals died long ago I put on my shocked face and ask if there is a statute of limitation on how long after an animal dies it is moral to make use it.
Going hard core keto here. 2 weeks in I’ve lost 10 pounds! The more I read the more I’m finding out that this WOE (way of eating) vs. the WSD (western standard diet) is healing people of diseases and chronic illnesses that have been plaguing these folks for years! It’s not just sheddding the pounds it’s healing the body.
It’s a life change one must make to stay healthy and you all saying that man was designed to eat this way are 100% correct! The sad thing is the govt. and the food industry and the medical establishment are not on board. But discussing that makes me very very discouraged. They aren’t on our side for the most part. Some are coming along, most just aren’t and it really really makes me sad to know that I know more than some so called nutrition experts and doctors. Horrifying actually it really shouldn’t be this way but what’s new?
Vegan is not “healthier.” They avoid healthy foods like butter, yogurt and kefir and eat poison like margarine and canola oil, saturated with glyphosate. Fats are CRITICAL for avoiding dementia, alzheimer’s, parkinsons, MS, lupus, etc down the road. Meats are not “unhealthy” in limited amounts. But low-fat diets are disastrous for brain and nervous system health. These are the same idiots who denounced avocados, coconuts and egg yolks for 30 years — sentencing tens of millions of Americans to an unprecedented explosion in dementia and related ailments. Those fats also reduce inflammation, helping the heart as well (again, in reasonable amounts).
That is mouth watering.
That’s OK...just let them eat themselves into the ER.
Vegan eating is not healthy eating
Just 150,000 people followed a vegan diet in 2006, but that number rose to 542,000 in 2016. As a result, veganism is now the fastest growing lifestyle movement ever.
Veganism is not a lifestyle movement, it's a cult movement. With a large number of activists utterly intolerant of anyone who eats meat, or even dairy products.
I’ve never met an aggressive vegan, but wine and pretzels are causing me to avoid a healthy diet. Tickety-boo, nutrition-nuts of all persuasions!
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