Diets, social media, food prejudices - an article

The lady on the left, one Sarah Berry, writes for the Sydney Morning Herald on health and fitness. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo. It's the only one I could find. I think her articles are then republished in The Age, which is where I found an article headlined Why so much hate for lapsed vegans?

I cut it out to do something on it at some later date. And here I am doing so.

Except that I'm not sure I'm going to expand on it now as there are so many points of discussion within it. Some of them are quotes from herself, some from others. So what I am going to lazily do today is just list a few of the more quotable bits and then return to some of them again. Here are the ones that struck me.

"Veganism: You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't want to any more."

"More than a matter of survival, diet is social activity and can be intrinsic to our identity"

"Vegan recidivism tends to generate particularly strong reactions because those who commit to veganism are often doing so not just because of personal commitments, but also because of larger environmental or animal welfare concerns. So examples of 'fallen' vegans can be seen as both an affront to those larger political commitments and an attempt to undermine the healthiness and achievability of a vegan diet more generally." Dr. Michelle Phillipov

A 2016 US study found 84 percent of vegetarians/vegans eventually abandon their diet, primarily for health reasons or because they find it too restrictive."

"Food has never been 'just' food. Food has always been laden with meaning. Our food choices are fundamentally an expression of our tastes and our values, and so conflicts over food are never really conflicts over the food itself- they are conflicts over the values that underlie food choices." Dr. Michelle Phillips

Sorry not to do more. Still feeling a bit stupid from this cold. Another hot lemon and honey drink coming up.