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University student took her own life after suffering from 'delusional beliefs caused by her vegan diet', inquest finds
UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/19/2026 | Jon Brady, Charlie Moloney

Posted on 05/19/2026 7:41:47 AM PDT by fruser1

Georgina Owen, 21, of Saffron Walden in Essex, had been following a plant-based diet since 2016 'stemming from her environmental concerns', but was suffering from a B12 deficiency in the latter months of her life.

Miss Owen told her family she had 'forgotten' to take her supplements but had bought an 'organic' Methyl-cobalamin B12 spray from Canada to top herself up. But a coroner's court heard that post-mortem blood tests showed she was B12 deficient

Miss Owen's family reported that in the recent period before her death she had [been] dwelling on the state of the world and her place in it.

Her symptoms, the report said, suggested a 'gradually developing psychiatric disorder culminating in the delusional beliefs' that she expressed in a note that was found with her body.

Recording a narrative conclusion, the coroner noted that the student died whilst 'on the balance of probabilities suffering delusional beliefs brought about by a Vitamin B12 deficiency developed as a direct result of her vegan diet.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: b12; depression; mentalhealth; nihilism; vegan
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In Genesis 1:29, God presents Adam and Eve with a menu: "Here are all the herbs, God told them, that seed on earth, and all the trees, that carry in them the seeds of their own life, to be your food"

This is a vegan menu, and, as you may recollect, the first peoples of the earth were wiped out by the Great Flood, leaving Noah and his family.

When they get out of the Ark, man again is presented with a "menu", in Genesis 9:2-4: "2 All the beasts of earth, and the winged things of the sky, and the creeping things of earth, are to go in fear and dread of you, and I give you dominion over all the fishes of the sea. 3 This creation that lives and moves is to provide food for you; I make it all over to you, by the same title as the herbs that have growth. 4 Only, you must not eat the flesh with the blood still in it."

The only difference from the prior menu is that now there is meat on it.

So it seems to me that the fundamental cause of the lunacy of the first peoples that needed to be wiped out was their veganism.

Veganism may help to explain a lot of leftist and democrat behavior.

1 posted on 05/19/2026 7:41:47 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Some of the slop they eat might drive me to self-harm as well


2 posted on 05/19/2026 7:42:42 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: fruser1

“Here are all the herbs,


Methinks she probably did partake in her fair share of “herbs”.


3 posted on 05/19/2026 7:44:02 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: fruser1
Veganism is a religion.


4 posted on 05/19/2026 7:46:58 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: fruser1

Cults use the vegan diet to control their slaves


5 posted on 05/19/2026 7:47:45 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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So it seems to me that the fundamental cause of the lunacy of the first peoples that needed to be wiped out was their veganism.
= = =

OK, Very interesting. I will put this in my mental file cabinet for future considerations.


6 posted on 05/19/2026 7:52:45 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: PROCON

Isn’t that tattoo right over his Carotid(sp?).


7 posted on 05/19/2026 7:53:39 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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The B12 deficiency might have been a problem.
The Vegan diet might have caused the deficiency.

But she took her own life because she was mentally ill, and had been for years. The mental illness was the foundation of all the other problems.

But society likes to applaud and encourage the people who have crazy ideas, and so those crazy people don’t get help, they get crazier.


8 posted on 05/19/2026 7:55:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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I don’t think a vegan diet has anything to do with it. Some people are just nuts, whether they are on a diet or not. I’m not a vegan, but I eat very little meat, and then it’s usually chicken, fish or venison. No ill effects. And not insane, (by most standards)


9 posted on 05/19/2026 8:02:26 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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Correct. There was a very good chance that mental heath and suicidal tendencies were a problem long before the vegan diet was adopted, IMHO...


10 posted on 05/19/2026 8:05:17 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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> But society likes to applaud and encourage the people who have crazy ideas… <

That’s a very important point. It’s a free country. So it’s no crime if you think you are Napoleon.

But it’s wrong for society to demand that everyone agree with you, and address you as “Your Majesty”.


11 posted on 05/19/2026 8:05:36 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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There’s a lot of ways to do a “Vegan” Diet.

Most of them are wrong. You really have to do the research (and spend a lot of money) if you want to do Vegan in a healthy manner. And 99.9% of Vegans don’t.


12 posted on 05/19/2026 8:07:34 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: PROCON

Literally, a Pencil Necked Geek!
A gradually diminishing species with low reproductive levels.


13 posted on 05/19/2026 8:23:27 AM PDT by lee martell
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Almost everything I eat had a parent. Libs hate that when I say it.


14 posted on 05/19/2026 8:24:19 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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without artificial supplementation, ALL true vegans are doomed to die a miserable death once their liver stores of B12 from their previous, non-vegan, diet are depleted ... generally, our livers store a few year’s supply of B12 via a normal diet, so all seems well for vegans for a while ...

one should always ask: is a voluntary diet that REQUIRES artificial supplementation to stay alive healthy?

OTOH, folks like myself who have the auto-immune disease called pernicious anemia, must inject B12 because we have antibodies to intrinsic factor and Anti-Parental Cell (anti-PC) antibodies, and therefore are unable to absorb B12 in food ...


15 posted on 05/19/2026 8:27:21 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: fruser1

Delusional beliefs caused the vegan diet.


16 posted on 05/19/2026 8:30:15 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: PROCON

He looks deficient!


17 posted on 05/19/2026 8:31:56 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: PROCON

How can you tell if someone is a Vegan?

You don’t, they tell you.


18 posted on 05/19/2026 8:35:18 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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How can you tell if someone is a vegan?
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They will tell you.......................


19 posted on 05/19/2026 8:35:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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😁 GMTA!.............


20 posted on 05/19/2026 8:36:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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