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“Nina Planck is an ex-vegan who has absolutely no clinical nutrition background nor scientific evidence to support the things she said in her letter. She did a lot of damage.”
The Nina Planck you speak of got a lot of credulous attention with an op Ed piece she did for the New York Times. I went to check her out on Wikipedia and found a puff piece she probably wrote herself, as suggested by the motherly but out of context statement about her son (I actually moved it to a more relevant position).
Naturally, I edited it a bit. When I checked it again she had replaced my very objective version with, again, her own diatribe (except for the nice mention of her son). Happily, I had thought to make a copy of my version, so it was but the work of a moment to set things right once more. I’ve continued to do that from time to time, I hadn’t thought about it in a while, though, so I’ll bet it’s all wrong again.
If you’d like to help keep the Planck article accurate, here’s the version I wrote (with, I think, all the right code to make links and whatnot) or you can write your own. Carrying the torch of Truth is useful and fun!
'''Nina Planck''' was born at home in Buffalo, New York in [[1971]] and was brought up on an ecological vegetable farm in [[Virginia]]. She started the [[London Farmers' Markets]] [http://www.lfm.org.uk] in [[1999]], a company that now runs 15 farmers' markets in [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]. She wrote The Farmers' Market Cookbook and Real Food: What to Eat and Why. In [[2003]] Nina Planck also was director of [[Greenmarket]], the largest group of farmers markets in the United States. She is the founder of [[Real Food]], which runs traditional farmers' markets for local food in Washington, DC. Nina Planck has a son, Julian, born [[October 24]], [[2006]].{{Fact|date=June 2007}}
She has recently gained notoriety due to a controversial and one-sided editorial in the New York Times that attacks veganism.[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/opinion/21planck.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Death by Veganism] The editorial was in response to the case of a vegan Atlanta couple who were convicted of murder and child cruelty in the death of their newborn son, whom they fed primarily soy milk and apple juice. This is not a diet in keeping with standard vegan practice; statistically, more vegan mothers than non-vegans breast feed. Those who cannot commonly use a fortified soy infant formula, not simple soy milk.[http://www.animalperson.net/animal_person/2007/05/vegan_parents_p.html]
The infant, Crown Shakur had never received conventional medical care.[http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007293107]
Ms. Planck‘s London Farmers‘ Markets sell, among other things, “organic & outdoor reared meat, game in season, dairy“ and fish,[http://www.ninaplanck.com/index.php?page=who_is_nina][http://www.lfm.org.uk/] and her Real Food Markets in the United States sell “grass-fed“ beef “and pork, poultry, and eggs.”[http://www.realfood.info] Her book on so-called “real food” (a phrase popularized in a series of TV commercials for the beef industry) seeks to reassure readers regarding standard diets. The metatags for her webpage invited browsers to “Learn why butter and lard are good for you and corn oil and soy milk are not.”[http://www.aboutus.org/NinaPlanck.com]
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Happy Easter Asha ;)
Oh! no it's the weekend....enjoy Veggie Girl ; ))Glad to be counted among your friends. Regarding your professional goals, there are plenty of lawyers, but, I think, too few vegetarian ones. (Well, there are, really, too few vegetarian ANY profession, but...) In addition to environmental law and animal law (btw, I was fortunate enough to meet Bernard Rollins, author of much of animal rights law in the US; he was kind enough to look over my paper on the animal/domestic abuse connection), there also seems to be a need, silly as it seems, for lawyers who are knowledgeable in defending vegetarian rights.
I know of at least one divorce case here in Knoxville in which custody of the child was awarded to the father solely on the grounds that the mother was a vegetarian. There are other cases where children have been taken away from both parents simply because they were vegan. I did a school paper about the situation titled “Is Vegetarianism a Form of Child Abuse?” an interrogative form of the title of a peer-reviewed paper making precisely that claim. You can find my paper, if interested, on my own site, http://www.vset.net. If you can’t find it, or if you’d like to see the comments that well-known vegetarian nutritionist Bob Leroy made on it (mostly agreeing, though he questioned a point or two), write me.
Thank You ....fae duggi ; )))View All Comments