Our Response to Beef Magazine’s Ridiculous Critique of Veg Butchers

Earlier this week, Beef
Magazine 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.

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