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Originally Posted by ferociousgoals  escapee, I respect that your diet has worked well for you and that you have research to back it up, but I think it verges on disrespectful when you come into every vegan thread and try to push people into eating dairy and eggs. |
While it's true that escapee recommended milk and eggs, the post was in response to fruititarian - a form of diet where you eat only those things that don't hurt the life that created it. For the most part this allows fruit but not vegetables -- the apple tree goes on living after you pick an apple, but the carrot has to be uprooted in order for you to eat it. Technically speaking, it would also allow eggs & dairy - breakfast eggs are unfertilized and cows don't die when you drink milk - but most fruititarians are vegan nonetheless. Unfortunately for people who like protein, soybeans die in the creation of tofu, so the fruititarian diet is extremely difficult to stick to while also meeting your nutritional needs.
Escapee said nothing about the dangers of veganism, nor did his/her quotes on fruititarian research.
Of course the entire post discouraging fruititarianism was a little off-topic, since no one was seriously suggesting it. It was suggested as a sarcastic remark to counter other people's sarcastic remarks. I'm pretty sure if someone greats news of your diet with, "But plants suffer, too!" they're not going to be open-minded enough to switch to fruititarianism, so it's not actually a danger.