- Joined
- Jun 4, 2012
- Reaction score
- 19,521
- Age
- 65
- Location
- I'm liek, in Cali, dude.
- Lifestyle
- Vegetarian
I thought maintaining a veg*an diet was supposed to lower the risk of cancer, but we've seen a number of people who identify as vegetarian or vegan who have developed and died from cancer, including such celebrities as:
Linda McCartney
Steve Jobs
Davy Jones of the Monkees
Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons (he hasn't died, yet, but he's terminal; see thefadedone's thread on this guy)
Beyond the tragedy of seeing such people with cancer, and the knowledge that my own vegetarian diet may not matter in the long run if I still have a risk of developing cancer, it saddens me because this has been used as a weapon in the hands of the anti-veg camp as proof that a veg*an diet not only does NOT reduce the risk of cancer but in fact actually CAUSES cancer. What the hell would you say to somebody who insists on making that correlation?
Linda McCartney
Steve Jobs
Davy Jones of the Monkees
Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons (he hasn't died, yet, but he's terminal; see thefadedone's thread on this guy)
Beyond the tragedy of seeing such people with cancer, and the knowledge that my own vegetarian diet may not matter in the long run if I still have a risk of developing cancer, it saddens me because this has been used as a weapon in the hands of the anti-veg camp as proof that a veg*an diet not only does NOT reduce the risk of cancer but in fact actually CAUSES cancer. What the hell would you say to somebody who insists on making that correlation?