{"id":5118,"date":"2005-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/03\/12\/2005-03-12-study-sponsored-by-the-national-cattlemen-s-beef-association-puts-down-a-vegan-diet\/"},"modified":"2005-03-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T12:00:00","slug":"2005-03-12-study-sponsored-by-the-national-cattlemen-s-beef-association-puts-down-a-vegan-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/03\/12\/2005-03-12-study-sponsored-by-the-national-cattlemen-s-beef-association-puts-down-a-vegan-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Sponsored by the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association Puts Down a Vegan Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vegsource.com\/articles2\/ncbs_vegan_study.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>February 22, 2005: After Dr. Lindsay Allen of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service said that, &#8220;A vegan diet was so lacking in necessary nutrients that it is tantamount to child abuse,&#8221; it caused an uproar in the vegan community at large. Firstly, the announcement was made at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by a reputable person. Secondly after researching Dr. Allen&#8217;s claim, it was found that the study was conducted on African children whose primary diet was corn and beans. After introducing meat into their diet, the children&#8217;s health improved. However the article points out, &#8220;Dr. Allen&#8217;s basis for this bizarre and completely unfounded declaration was her experience in Africa. Children who had been eating nothing but corn and beans were given a little meat and their health improved. Not children on a normal, healthy vegan diet &#8211; children who had been eating nothing but corn and beans. Adding almost anything to their diet would have caused improvement.&#8221; Thirdly, the study was paid for by the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association which should automatically make the findings subject to closer scrutiny. Critics also attacked the ethics of the study, which involved doing nothing for one group of children as a &#8220;control,&#8221; letting them continue to suffer malnutrition.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceFebruary 22, 2005: After Dr. Lindsay Allen of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service said that, &#8220;A vegan diet was so,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}