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Also considering that mb asceticism or significant restriction when you're in an environment surrounded by different foods is not necessarily good for your mind or body either. One can psychologically be gluttonous about (by overdoing) asceticism, ironically. It ends up becoming a reliance or crutch, which is inflexible and thus unsustainable if your environment and resources change drastically.
People want control also. It's the reason people develop eating disorders as a response to stressful situations. It doesn't sound like a good idea to me to condition your body to reject so many things, like vomiting after eating a tiny piece of meat. That objectively sounds like a definite weakness to me.
Oh yeah and I had a cousin (SEE) have a bunch of her hair fall out after hitting the 2 year mark of veganism. And it seems like every single vegan I've seen has a pallid complexion with papery-looking skin, and teeth and eye whites that look like glass, which gets worse and worse over time.
Keep in mind I've grown up with Chinese herbal medicine (directly connected to Ayurvedic medicine) and seeing TCM doctors all my life-- this is the culture from where the "China Study" stuff came from which made a lot of low fat vegetarian stuff take off decades ago-- also where, historically, doctors got PAID to keep people healthy and stopped getting paid if they got sick, and I've never seen veganism be recommended by them. Even vegetarianism needs to be approached with caution, and is often discouraged.
I'm not really interested in what some idealistic hipsters with fugly skin have to say. I can take one look and tell it doesn't trump 4000+ years of human health knowledge.
Not to say of course eating more vegetables is not a very good thing, but very intensive restriction for an extended period of time .... that to me is someone just wanting to be excessive in an edgelord ascetic way, because they have nothing more important or interesting to do with their lives.
I also have a white European IEI aunt who is vegetarian+seafood, and has tried to care about her health a lot, and she went out too much without enough sunscreen and got melanoma (skin cancer). So if you focus too much on tiny unimportant shit, you will often overlook more important health shit. Times like this I'm glad I'm beta ST. Health is wealth bitches.