Dear David Leonhardt and The New York Times Morning Briefing Team,
It was quite thrilling to read in The New York Times Morning Briefing on January 2nd, 2022:
“How will Americans eat in 2022? ~ Food industry leaders say it will be another pragmatic, roll-up-your-sleeves kind of year, shaped by the needs of people working from home. ~ Climate change is top of mind. Mushrooms from small urban farms may replace some animal products. Plant-based chicken is coming, and coming fast. And look for kelp, which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
It was as if you had read my last letter and decided to follow my vision for you to make the shift to veganism ahead of the rest of society. In that letter, I invited you to get ahead of the curve, take responsibility, and embrace ethics. (“Dear David Leonhardt and The New York Times Morning Briefing Team, December 17, 2021”)
But alas, the very next day you suggested that your readers cook the flesh of chickens. And today, you wrote: “A healthy diet revolves around mostly unprocessed foods, like vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, whole grains, fish and some meat.” And then, you called added sweeteners “the driving force behind the global diabetes and obesity epidemics, which in turn cause many other health problems, including worse Covid-19 outcomes.”
Actually, a healthy diet does not include any fish nor any meat. And while it is true that added sweeteners are a major contributor to chronic diseases worldwide, the primary driving force behind diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and many cancers is animal protein. Therefore, a healthy diet excludes all meat, fish, dairy, and eggs.
Please interview Neal Barnard, MD, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, about his successes with reversing diabetes with the vegan diet.
And for information on medical doctors in India who are successfully reversing diabetes with the vegan diet, please read my post “Diabetes Was One of Many Diseases in the Pre-Vegan World.”
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
Teja Ray Shankara
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Mushrooms: Silviarita on Pixabay.
