Most arguments for shunning animal products focus on health,ethics and the environment, the vegan author says. ‘I just wanted to possess a fourth perspective, and which is economics’David Robinson Simon’s latest colonoscopy was carried out at a major hospital in southern California by the head of its gastroenterology department. “I said something like,‘I hope you don’t find any polyps, because I’m a vegan, and so I shouldn’t be at risk,’” Simon says. “He said, Ah, or that’s a bunch of nonsense.’
As Simon tells me this anecdote,27 minutes into our interview, a fresh twist on the old joke crosses my mind: How execute you know if someone is vegan? Theyll tell you … as you’re about to give them a colonoscopy.
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Source: theguardian.com