I don't know any people following WFPB'ed that aren't following the doctors on PCRM, Esselstyn, Greger, McDougall, Fuhrman, Barnard, and so many other doctors. PCRM is
About Us Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
None of them are suggesting going off diet using meat, eggs, dairy, refined oil.....but people that can't or don't want to, will twist and turn the rules for themselves-that's on them. Industry will do anything to make a buck including twisting and turning things to appear plant based--that's on them. If every flexitarian that mostly ate plant based was eating wfpb'ed, they wouldn't call it flexitarian. Nutritarians, another one. Some people are strict some are not. Some people care a great deal about health, some do not. It's like vegans that wear leather, they just aren't that strict, they twist and turn the ideals to fit what they want.
How can you paint all wfpb'ed or plant based with your limited experience. You've made it clear you don't like it when wfpb'ed groups say negative things about vegans, yet you do the same thing to them? Individuals and industries-that are in denial, or lie outright about being plant based entirely 100%, aren't wfpb'ed. Just like the leather wearing 'health conscious' oreo and potato chip eating vegans.
I'm not the vegan police or the wfpb'ed or plant based police. I'm not looking at people and expecting perfection nor painting groups as all bad or all good. I know what I'm doing for myself and I'm happy with that.
What organization spearheads vegan lifestyle, or are there people or groups that set any standards for vegans?
Take industry lies, and individual preferences out of it.
It's like comparing apples to oranges. Vegan is a lifestyle built on beliefs about animals, human behavior, for the good of animals and people, the earth and environment. It's a philosophy of living, and the choices with that. It's not a diet in the sense, that foods are vegan or not vegan, people are.
WFPB, plant based, is what people choose to eat that favors scientific fact, medical studies, and ultimately their health. It's a subset that has veganism in common with some.
We can agree to disagree.