Vegetarianism: Index

The Naive Vegetarian

People are turning to vegetarianism because, they believe, it is healthier, or kinder to animals, or the planet . . . The fact is that vegetarianism is less healthy; and if we all became vegetarians, we would starve.

Vegetarians have smaller brains
An interesting study was published in 2009. In confirming earlier research, it showed conclusively that people who cut down on eating foods of animal origin — and particularly vegans who cut it out altogether — suffer quite a large degree of brain shrinkage.

God instructs Man to eat meat
Why you really can't be vegan if you are a committed Jew, Christian or Muslim.

Comparison of the digestive tracts
of a herbivore, a carnivore and Man, demonstrates that we must be a carnivorous species.

Vegetarians More Likely To suffer from Glycation. Glycation contributes to the complications of diabetes and increases heart disease risk.

Low bone mass in people on a long-term raw vegetarian diet

The importance of grass
Grass is the world’s most ubiquitous plant. It covers a quarter of the world’s land area. That’s more land than any other plant. If we all became vegans, all that land would be wasted.

The following stories are examples of the tragic consequences for the young children of otherwise well-meaning parents who unquestioningly accept the dogma that vegetarianism is healthy. Fortunately, they seem to be few in number.

News story, New Zealand, 2002
that demonstrates the harm extreme vegetarianism can do to children.

News story, Miami, Florida, 2003
One child dead, four more seriously harmed by raw food diet.

Last updated 7 February 2010

When doctors won't tell . . .
Of all the online nutritional information, nutritional facts, medical and dietary sites there are to choose from, in an article entitled "How to ease the pain" The Sunday Times magazine, Culture, published a list of just five websites it considered reliable and informative.
This site was one of that five.