Vegan Health Risks Are Lies?

Published March 27, 2011

Question by Aly R.: Vegan health risks are lies?
Hi, I’ve been starting veganism due to watching horrific videos of industrial farm abuse and toture and of course I did my research… i also found that milk that was taken from cows are intended for calfs and NOT humans since every other animal stops drinking milk after a certain age they don’t need milk to constantly be fed to humans and that cows only can produce milk when they are pregnant and all the hormones and drugs they feed it to make the cows produce milk they use machines and these arent fun at all for the cow. they said that calcium for humans is intented to be absorbed from leafy greens, lots of salad, nuts, and lots of beans and tofu and certain ethnic veggies too which is actually what they should be consuming and its a much better source of calcium than milk. so on this website while doing my research, I found that the people were talking about all these risks of veganism like the vitamin deficiancies and the part about milk they said that they found many people who dont drink milk to develop Osteoporosis as a result of a lack of calcium causing bone demineralization. i for one disagree a lot and suspect that perhaps certain “facts” are just fed to the public so the meat company would still be in business. and believe me these facts scare people from their strict diets.
so what do you all think? also as stated before leafy greens are a much more ideal way of consuming calcium.

thank you!!

Best answer:

Answer by Hannah
I’m glad that you want to embrace a meat-free lifestyle, but you do have to research all the nutrients that you need from animals (like calcium, vitamin B, omega 3, etc.) to make sure that you somehow get it in supplemental (pill/vitamin-fortified food) or natural form (like lettuce, walnuts, etc.). Vegan health risk aren’t “lies” because people can get sick from not getting proper nutrients that ordinarily come from animal products. Good luck on your new diet and make sure you get the right nutrients in some form or other!

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