I started writing a long reply on the many parts of this I disagree with, and I may finish that over the weekend. In the meantime, I just have to ask: What on earth is going on with the fearmongering around vitamins and supplements?
First off, even the most dedicated vegans will tell you that to stay vegan you need to take medicine to not die—B12.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone refer to a vitamin as “medicine” before, and the way you repeatedly do in this piece reads to me as some odd scare tactic. I think we’re actually as an EA community really in favor of vitamin supplementation (just search “Vitamin A” on the Forum) and most people would not consider fortified foods medicine.
I started writing a long reply on the many parts of this I disagree with, and I may finish that over the weekend. In the meantime, I just have to ask: What on earth is going on with the fearmongering around vitamins and supplements?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone refer to a vitamin as “medicine” before, and the way you repeatedly do in this piece reads to me as some odd scare tactic. I think we’re actually as an EA community really in favor of vitamin supplementation (just search “Vitamin A” on the Forum) and most people would not consider fortified foods medicine.
In my opinion, fortification is pretty amazing! The discovery of vitamins was pretty amazing! I think both should be celebrated, not stigmatized.
I’m reading the way you talk about this as weirdly “anti-science wellness influencer” coded, but am I missing something here?