“If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health” ~ Adelle Davis In 2011 I was tasked with writing a review of the book The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and his son Thomas M. Campbell II. This was some 6 years after the book was originally published and I remember there being a fair amount of controversy over it. Recently the book came up again for another piece I was writing. Over a decade has passed since its publication at this point and the debate only gets more heated. I set about doing research for the new piece and came across a lot of information. The book itself is turning out to be exactly as controversial as a person wants it to be. It is the nature of the content that seems to get people’s knickers in a twist. Vegetarianism, especially veganism, can be quite the hot button topic in many circles. Meat eaters and vegans alike have much to say about their dietary choices, and with a medium as vast as the internet it's hard to know what information is true and what is not. Since the underlying issue is health and quality of life people want their choices to be “right.” This sets up a “right or wrong” or “black and white” dichotomy when in truth, it really isn’t that simple.
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