A Vegan No More
I'm all for radicalism since radicals are the main force questioning conventional wisdom.  But the size of the vegan movement is totally out of proportion to its veracity.<p>Take the whole "meat is murder" slogan.  It's ridiculous from the outset and completely ignores our existence within the earth's ecosystem.  I mean industrialized animal farming is fairly horrific, but the way to stop that is by advocating and <i>paying the premium</i> for more sustainably raised meat.  Opting out of meat entirely does nothing to change the industry, because most people will always eat some meat if they can afford it.<p>Meanwhile, as vegans focus on the elimination of meat from our diets, they practically ignore the industrialized food that wreaks direct reproducible havoc on our metabolisms causing epidemic obesity and diabetes.  Consider the effect of refined and reconstituted carbohydrates made from federally subsidized crops that make the most devastatingly unhealthy food items also the cheapest.  Just the effects of soda pop alone are worthy of an international movement.