[0x20cowboy]

> It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19562864/

[vegan_wgat]

How much difference in cost between 'well planned vegeterian diet' and normal healthy diet with animal products?

[lm28469]

> normal healthy diet with animal products

Most people don't eat a "normal >healthy< diet with animal products". It takes as much work to have a meat based healthy diet as a vegetarian based healthy diet.

[uptime]

This. Any healthy diet today involves actively choosing and avoiding products marketed to us. Eating meat is not magical, and I called myself a vegetarian for a while when I was really a carb-etarian and my fitness suffered.