Eating heirloom raw organic vegan is the ultimate FUCK YOU to corporate America.

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"organic heirloom raw vegan"? Congratulations on your lifestyle choice, I'm glad you're happy about it, but I don't think you realise that this is not really a feasible option for most people. If it is an option for you that means you can afford it ("organic" etc etc is usually more expensive, frequently significantly so); live in an area where it's available (due to demand that's usually going to be an urban area, and more frequently the West Coast and Northeast); food isn't just a political issue, it's also socioeconomics and geography.

You can get parasites and nasty illnesses from improperly washed vegetables; if you're cooking meat properly? You won't get parasites.

MRSA exists because of overuse and overprescription of antibiotics in general, not because of cattle being given antibiotics. That's an American problem anyway; use of antibiotics in cattle feed is banned in Europe, most beef cattle are grass-fed, not grain-fed (and the meat is better for it, in my opinion).

Humans are omnivores, not herbivores. We can't digest cellulose. We learnt to cook in part to break down indigestible cellulose and other indigestible compounds in foods; cooking is one of the things that led to the human species as we know it (by enabling relatively evolutionarily rapid brain growth through being able to eat a more varied diet).

You also seem to be pretty ignorant of how people actually eat in your diatribes about "meat-based diets"; as an omnivore I get my magnesium, potassium and folate from vegetables (greens, potatoes, etc), milk and corn flakes, among other things.

And, "big pharma"? What does "big pharma" have to do exactly with food and diet? Last I checked GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, et al were entirely different entities to Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto, and so on. I think you have your insane conspiracy theories badly confused.