A complete oxymoron, ain’t no such thing.
Alexandra Jamieson, 50, built a life around being vegan. She literally wrote multiple books on the subject —Living Vegan for Dummies and Vegan Cooking for Dummies , among them — and cocreated the 2004 film Super Size Me, which documented what happened when her ex-husband, Morgan Spurlock, ate McDonald’s for 30 days straight (spoiler: It wasn’t good).
Jamieson says she stumbled on veganism in her mid-20s. She was working at a corporate job and started having health issues, including frequent migraines. Doctors suggested pain medication, but she opted to see what she calls a “hippie doctor,” who asked Jamieson about her diet. “It was mostly junk food,” she admits. Her doctor recommended cutting out all animal products, sugar and gluten, and within a week, she felt better.
Jamieson went all in, even going to culinary school and becoming a vegan chef. But things started to change after having her son. She started feeling tired, “which, as a mom to a young kid, is really hard to pry apart,” she says. Some days, she could barely get off the couch.
And then the dreams about hamburgers started. “And that was very disturbing,” she says.
A doctor’s visit revealed that Jamieson was severely anemic. Despite being a trained chef and doing everything “within the vegan framework” to make sure she was getting enough vitamins and minerals — “I’d written books about it. I knew what you were supposed to do,” she says — including cooking with cast iron pots and even getting intravenous iron infusions, it wasn’t enough. “I was like, this is crazy. This is not sustainable. And this is not how humans are supposed to stay healthy,” she says.
So, after 10 years of being a vegan, Jamieson’s red meat dreams became a reality: She bit into a burger. “It was delicious,” she says. “It was like heaven. My body was like, Oh my God, thank you.”
As well it might be. There’s a reason, after all, why we humans have incisors, canines, and molars in our mouths: we’re not herbivores, but omnivores. Deal with it, shitlib pussies.
Glenn piles on thusly:
Helen was a vegetarian before her heart attack, after which she said “screw it, I’m eating meat.” I took her to Morton’s in Nashville for her first steak and her reaction was simillar. I remember her saying “what the hell was I thinking?” after her first bite.
Heh. Indeed.
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“Helen was a vegetarian before her heart attack…”
I’ll just point out that vegan is a radical that hates those that eat meat and tries to stop the production of it. Helen was not one of those…
All vegetarians suffer one way or another.