Every few years I got to vegsource.com. A cesspool of nutrition misinformation. I noticed that Jeff Nelson, the owner got rid of the forums. Now it is just about what he wants you to hear 100%.
Vegsource no longer has a webboard
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David3
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Forums, if not well-moderated, can become a cesspool of crap and spam, as you say. Probably better that he got rid of it.
Lou
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I have a vague recollection of this website. I believe they started their web board a really long time ago in the early days of Internet forums. I also believe Jeff wrote the software himself? So in that sense he was a pioneer. If I remember correctly, though, there was some some animosity between Jeff and the staff of Veggie Boards.
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Nelson didn't write the software himself. He is an Oscar Meyer trustafarian who never learned how to do anything professional aside from how to hire lawyers to sue people who upset him ( he had a book on Amazon called "Sue The Bastards".
Nelson had animosity for anyone he saw as "competition". When email lists were the big thing he was caught using a fake identity to attack VEGAN_L and some others. He then kept attacking other vegan site like VegWeb.
Eventually he won "friends" by hosting AR sites on vegsource for free.
Eventually the AR community learned what kind of person he was, despite the gifts he gave.
He then settled into making vegource exclusively about the very low fat vegan diet, supporting the professionals who promoted it and attacking anyone who did not.
Nelson had animosity for anyone he saw as "competition". When email lists were the big thing he was caught using a fake identity to attack VEGAN_L and some others. He then kept attacking other vegan site like VegWeb.
Eventually he won "friends" by hosting AR sites on vegsource for free.
Eventually the AR community learned what kind of person he was, despite the gifts he gave.
He then settled into making vegource exclusively about the very low fat vegan diet, supporting the professionals who promoted it and attacking anyone who did not.
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David3
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Jeff claims that, although his great-great-grandfather started the Armour Meat Company, he hasn't inherited any money:
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David3
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I'm not particularly a fan of Jeff Nelson, but it's clear that he will sue for defamation. Here is a link to a case in the Superior Court of Los Angeles: NELSON v. SUPERIOR COURT | No. B283743. | 20180227060 | Leagle.com
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I've heard and read Nelson state he is an Oscar Meyer heir.
Regardless, he is a liar and into woo, take anything he states as an invitation to do your own research.
Turns out his book is still on Amazon, published from the days where he would attack anyone who dared to put a vegan resource on the web that was not his
Regardless, he is a liar and into woo, take anything he states as an invitation to do your own research.
Turns out his book is still on Amazon, published from the days where he would attack anyone who dared to put a vegan resource on the web that was not his
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David3
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We should pull in some facts here. Could you post a link to a website wherein Nelson himself states that he is an Oscar Meyer heir?
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No. I have a job. I'm not going to scour the web to find a reference to that statement that liar forget to rub out. No disrespect meant. There is nothing in it for me.
David3
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It's just for the sake of fact-checking. There is, in fact, a (politically-biased) website which claims that Jeff Nelson is the principal heir to the Armour Meat Company. Because the webpage hasn't been taken down, it may be that no slander/defamation lawsuit was possible: Jeffrey Armour Nelson - Activist FactsActivist Facts
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I know that site and I trust them even less.
Nelson doesn't have any profession that I am aware of. If he is not a trustafarian where he gets his money from becomes an interesting question.
Eh, on the other hand I don't care. No disrespect meant.
Nelson doesn't have any profession that I am aware of. If he is not a trustafarian where he gets his money from becomes an interesting question.
Eh, on the other hand I don't care. No disrespect meant.
HappyAsh
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I posted there in the 90s. I did recently see a video of Jeff Nelson telling vegans not to take their B-12 and D3 that made me pretty angry.
Brian W
Conscientious Christian
If it's the same video I saw, he wasn't saying any such thing. This is why we need to see links to sources so that we can see for ourselves what really was said in these instances. In the comments under a video on vitamin D for example, he clears up just such a claim.
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How much D people actually can absorb is widely different according where you are to the sun, as well your own bodies ability to make the conversion to usable D. I had severe pain in my ankles, no doctor or cat scans showed any issue---I finally requested they check my D in my routine blood test-which had never been done-and I was very low. Taking D greatly reduced my pain, and I discovered I did in fact need higher than normal doses. Get your D checked!
as for Nelson, I can't agree with his findings compared to Dr Gregers.
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