[bushycat]

I don't see it as any kind of fight at all. To me it's just interesting what others do with it. If anyone cares, when I have been on my own, I'm pretty much a Zen monk with diet. There are a lot of things which influence us. And it's also true that it becomes more and more difficult for many to cause harm as awareness expands. It would be pretty difficult to achieve if one expanded to all the physical aspects of one's surroundings. I mean things like our clothing, our furnishings.I would imagine everyone on forum treading pretty lightly, though. Going off on a tangent- sorry.
Karen, your research posted here is very scholarly. And you see it all over the place with different ethnic groups being effected by the "Western diet".
One thing which I've wondered about for a long time is when one follows a vegan diet and needs to supplement B-12, what really is the story re.: man as herbivore? There are multitudes on the planet subsiding on mostly rice diet. Maybe it is a matter of adjustment through generations.

BC