I read a piece the other day (by an American vegan) pigeon-holing vegans as being almost exclusively right-leaning hipsters who supported the gun lobby and saw everything and anything leftist as conspiracy and that as such these vegans also believed that plant-based living exempted them from infection as their immune systems were far superior to the rest of society and that those suffering from COVID-19 (sic) just needed to have a vegan immune system. She wrote this in a generic way which is as facile as saying that all the human omnivores on the planet are NOT tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists and believe the official narrative of COVID because they are all of the same mindset. That’s just spurious horse shit I’m sure you’d agree.
And I don’t fit into her shoehorned categorisation of what this imagined cult of proselytising vegans are supposed to stand for.
For me it is very simple - I am a) not saying there isn’t a virus - I am saying that it hasn’t been isolated - but without that scientific standard on which to base the whole COVID narrative, it cannot be supported empirically in any way b) not advocating that all vegans are by default healthier than their meat-eating compatriots - not at all. Vegans eat all manner of shit and a whole heap of processed crap that is as unhealthy as anything anyone else eats (the meme here case in point but so what) - the premise of veganism is simple - it’s a lifestyle that involves no animal products. That’s it. It doesn’t thus by default propel vegans to an immediately higher realm of consciousness - that is a mistake that many who are in judgement of vegans for just being vegans, make and, it must be said, many vegans assume superiority as a result too. It isn’t good for the cause but I believe that needs to be taken up with each vegan as you meet them. Plant-based diets are, unarguably healthier than meat-rich and dairy-based lifestyles. Again, it doesn’t follow that farming only plants is going to save the planet (if one thinks it needs saving, of course) - what gets missed here is that the healthy and sustainable component comes in when a diet is largely organic as that is, without any doubt, the healthiest and most sustainable way for humans to exist.
I have huge moral issues against people who wantonly and consciously don’t give a fuck about the knock-on effects of the meat and dairy industry and think that organically farmed meat and dairy products somehow benefit the animals - they don’t. They do however benefit the land and the human species. If one can avoid chemicalised, processed food - that is a no brainer but it doesn’t necessarily just pertain to plants.
That’s where the simplistic viewpoint offered up by the author of the article I’m referencing, falls away as well - vegans, by default don’t just think their immune systems are healthier and in better shape because of veganism - it’s about the purity of the food that is being consumed but hey - if you’re a vegan pisshead who downs a litre of brandy every evening and are partial to some chemical recreation then it really doesn’t matter that you’re not partaking of flesh - your lifestyle will still take its toll on your immune system.
The basis of good health management is avoiding that type of toxicity and plants alone don’t provide that - they have to be organic, non-contaminated plants that aren’t laced with glyphosate and other heavy metal toxins during the chemicalised factory farming process.
Similarly, organically produced meat is far healthier than the GMO-fed, chemicalised mass produced product that most humans carnivores eat and probably synthesised, plant-based “meats”.
So to just create this narrow band of vegan denialists, while it may apply to some vegans, it certainly isn’t a meaningful brush with which to tar all of us.
The other unarguable factor is what is delivered via vaccines by way of attrition as side-effects and using a very simple analogy - if vaccines were this optimal health-benefit then the most vaccinated population on the planet (Americans) would by default be the healthiest among us but in reality, they are among the unhealthiest of all the developed nations bar none and have the highest infant mortality rates and SIDS rates and allergy rates and and developmental disorders and autism rates and on and on - don’t believe me - check out the CDC website itself.
By the same token, to lump the politics of veganism into this discussion is similarly just ridiculous. I, in the author’s opinion, am a right wing anti-liberal gun-loving conspiracy theorist who believes that by eating plants I have a claim to a superior immunity somehow....
How is there any relationship between my politics and my organic vegan lifestyle?
I believe in not harming animals and, for that matter humans - ergo: I never have and never will own a gun - I don’t believe in them. You get rid of every firearm on the planet and we’d be a long way toward pacifying the population.
And the only reason one would be seen to be so-called “right wing” is simply by dint of the fact that these are the narrow parameters that our political landscape has been restricted to - you’re either a Republican or a Democrat - Labour or Tory and so it goes on - each so-called democracy deliberately perverted into a two-party system - not for our convenience but for ease of separation. Exactly what’s happening on the planet.
So simply because I see through the hateful leftist (not my word) so-called liberal (it isn’t) media and its ownership by the Deep State machine, this automatically makes me anti this (correct) but it neither automatically makes me right wing, a Republican or Socialist nor by default, a Trump lover. But if the choice is boiled down to having only one choice to oppose the maniacs that have hijacked our health and media, then that’s the side on which one has to fall, warts and all.
I have sympathy for the writer and her husband who got sick, that sucks but it has nothing to do with vegan denialism or militancy - just everything to do with people simply getting sick in the same way two people from the same genetic background may each smoke 70 cigarettes a day for 20 years and one may develop cancer and die and the other not - but who knows what other factors are at play here that compromise health, not least of which may just be simply ongoing environmental toxicity - consumed over time. Exposure to 5G radiation, workplace toxic exposure and, of course - stress.
It was, in short, a stupid article making quantum and paradigm leaps attempting, unsuccessfully to categorise a lifestyle choice into a socio-political one-size-fits-all analysis. That doesn’t work - not at all.
And many of the processed “plant” based alternatives don’t automatically presuppose healthier eating but by the same token, it’s not just about that - it’s about not harming other sentient beings - if we choose to eat shit and harm ourselves, that is still our prerogative - a choice - something that we deny the animals that we breed and abuse, traumatise and eventually murder. To me - that’s the point and it is a fundamentally flawed, selfish and immoral one.
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