James Hamblin sat down with Def Jam founder Russell Simmons to swap strategies to defend vegan diets from common counter-arguments (e.g. “I can’t give up meat, because meat is delicious.”):



Among the counter-arguments they didn’t discuss: That a vegan diet may not be entirely bloodless. One reader summarizes this somewhat-disturbing take below. (Warning: You might not want to read this while eating.)

There is no such thing as a vegan. Every piece of food you eat is crawling with little animals. Your stomach is currently slaughtering millions of worms and other critters. Furthermore, to get your soy, they killed thousands of mice and other ground dwelling animals. Not to mention the insects.

Mmmm, dead mice in your soy—delicious. So how accurate is the argument? Scientific American’s Kyle Hill covered the bugs we accidentally digest each year: