Beef Magazine posted a not surprisingly ridiculous article critiquing vegetarian and vegan butcher shops like the Earlier this week,posted a not surprisingly ridiculous article critiquing vegetarian and vegan butcher shops like the incredibly popular Herbivorous Butcher





While the piece is rife with misinformation, we wanted to address some of its most bogus claims:

It’s no secret that the zinc, iron, protein, complex B vitamins, amino acids and saturated fats found naturally in red meat are hard to find anywhere else or to duplicate in a factory with synthetic products.

Of course, all these nutrients are easily gained from a balanced vegan diet. For example, protein is found in foods like lentils, tofu, peanut butter, and even broccoli. Iron is found in black beans, leafy greens, and quinoa. And healthy saturated fats are found in avocados and coconuts. Nice try though.

Whether vegans have chosen to forego meat for ethical, environmental or health reasons (no matter how misinformed I think they are), there’s one thing their diet has got to be lacking in—taste.

Really? Obviously you've never been to these incredible vegan restaurants or tried Daiya's cheezecake . If there's one thing vegan food isn't lacking in, it's taste. But you know what it is lacking in? Blatant animal cruelty.

And if vegans didn’t miss the taste of bacon, steak, pork chops and other meaty foods, then why are they so keen to replicate these animal proteins?

We didn't go vegan because we didn't like the taste of those things, we went vegan because we didn't want to contribute to the horrific animal suffering it takes to produce them.

[Vegans] should also think about the sustainability of creating man-made foods that aren’t naturally found in the environment.

LOL! First off, all vegan meats are made from plants, which despite your clear lack of critical thinking, happen to be found naturally. I mean, wheat, soybeans, peas, and the variety of other plants that go into making vegan meats are anything but “man-made.”





In addition, with nearly all environmental devastation occurring at the hands of the meat industry, it’s pretty much impossible to take this supposed concern for sustainability seriously.

Ethically speaking, I know that when we respectfully slaughter animals, we are not only nourishing people but providing life-changing byproducts.

What?! Could you please explain how you respectfully take the life of an animal who wanted to live?





Also, there are 795 million people who do not have enough to eat and the majority of grains grown are fed to farmed animals. A vegan diet has the potential to feed the world’s hungry by using the 90 million acres of land currently used to grow corn for factory-farmed animals to grow food for people instead.





Don’t buy the meat industry’s lies. We can all remove our support from cruel and unsustainable factory farms by ditching meat and other animal products.



