I was pointing at a non-vegan bias in the way how you framed your argument: that a vegan diet is restrictive. But non-vegans also eat a restrictive diet, as they donât eat (and often refuse to eat) vegan foods. Vegans donât eat non-vegan sources of B12, and non-vegans donât eat vegan sources of B12.
Your bias is comparable to a native English speaker who has an English bias and claims that French is a difficult language because the French people donât use those simple words like âdoorâ and âtableâ. So when you want to speak French, you first have to learn new words. But the fact that the French language doesnât use the words that you use, doesnât make it a difficult language. For native French people, French is an easy language.
So the crux is: a vegan diet is not difficult, but changing diet is difficult. For vegans (who learned how to eat vegan), a vegan diet is easy, just like a non-vegan diet is easy for non-vegans (who learned how to eat non-vegan).
I donât think the claim that non-vegans donât eat vegan foods is well-supported. For instance, a cake made with eggs and butter still consists of mostly vegan foodstuffs; that a non-vegan may refuse to eat a vegan cake does not mean they are restricting specific foodstuffs from their diet. Likewise, non-vegans do not categorically refuse to eat vegan B12 supplements (I assume the B12 in a multivitamin is made in a lab?) even if they do not eat them as part of 100 percent vegan completed foods.
Most non-vegans donât take vegan B12 supplements. That means this vegan product is excluded from the non-veganâs diet. The reason why non-vegans exclude it (whether they donât like it, consider it as immoral...), is not important because reasons are not health related. Whether or not someone who doesnât take the B12 supplement categorically refuses to take it, has no impact on that personâs health.
a vegan diet is not difficult, but changing diet is difficult. For vegans (who learned how to eat vegan), a vegan diet is easy, just like a non-vegan diet is easy for non-vegans (who learned how to eat non-vegan)
Accepting this arguendo, it doesnât seem like an argument against education for vegan converts.
I was pointing at a non-vegan bias in the way how you framed your argument: that a vegan diet is restrictive. But non-vegans also eat a restrictive diet, as they donât eat (and often refuse to eat) vegan foods. Vegans donât eat non-vegan sources of B12, and non-vegans donât eat vegan sources of B12.
Your bias is comparable to a native English speaker who has an English bias and claims that French is a difficult language because the French people donât use those simple words like âdoorâ and âtableâ. So when you want to speak French, you first have to learn new words. But the fact that the French language doesnât use the words that you use, doesnât make it a difficult language. For native French people, French is an easy language.
So the crux is: a vegan diet is not difficult, but changing diet is difficult. For vegans (who learned how to eat vegan), a vegan diet is easy, just like a non-vegan diet is easy for non-vegans (who learned how to eat non-vegan).
I donât think the claim that non-vegans donât eat vegan foods is well-supported. For instance, a cake made with eggs and butter still consists of mostly vegan foodstuffs; that a non-vegan may refuse to eat a vegan cake does not mean they are restricting specific foodstuffs from their diet. Likewise, non-vegans do not categorically refuse to eat vegan B12 supplements (I assume the B12 in a multivitamin is made in a lab?) even if they do not eat them as part of 100 percent vegan completed foods.
Most non-vegans donât take vegan B12 supplements. That means this vegan product is excluded from the non-veganâs diet. The reason why non-vegans exclude it (whether they donât like it, consider it as immoral...), is not important because reasons are not health related. Whether or not someone who doesnât take the B12 supplement categorically refuses to take it, has no impact on that personâs health.
Accepting this arguendo, it doesnât seem like an argument against education for vegan converts.