Alastair Goldfisher
Reporter, editor (Thomson Reuters), veg, papa, beagle owner, beer and sports lover
Startups. Tech Sectors. Music. Conferences. Crowd Funding. Freelancers. Eco stuff. Personal. Obits. Art. Journalism. Tattoos. Alastair Goldfisher. Babies Don't Want Vegan Mommies? What a Load of Baloney - Miami Restaurants and Dining. This past weekend, the LA Times published an editorial suggesting pregnant women who adhere to a vegan diet and subsequently raise vegan children are irresponsible.
The writer, Alexandra Le Tellier, was responding to the release of Vegan Is Love, a new children's book that explains and advocates a vegan diet. Le Tellier was clearly looking for evidence to support her own half-baked belief that veganism can't be good for kids. Shamefully, some of the sources she came up with were pathetic, and she cited the decent ones incompletely.
First, she quotes another LA Times article that explains a study by Swedish researchers which concluded that early humans' meat consumption helped them reproduce faster than they could have if they'd adhered to a strictly plant-based diet. What Le Tellier forgot to mention is that Elia Psouni, one of the Lund University researchers, was careful to note that the results of the study say nothing about what humans today should or should not eat.
Facebook and online friends. Blogs of Interest. Olivia Fox / Charisma. Pop Culture/In the News. Reuters stories of interest. Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine. Are introverts oppressed?
I would have to say so. For one thing, extroverts are overrepresented in politics, a profession in which only the garrulous are really comfortable. Look at George W. Bush. Look at Bill Clinton. 2010 in Review - Posts, Top 10 Lists and More.
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