The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

17 primal tips for vegans and vegetarians.

We all know vegetarians and vegans and vegetarians.

We all know vegetarians and vegans, and while we have our differences, they are our friends,

our family, our partners, our spouses, even our children.

We all have people in our lives who avoid meat and or animal products in general for multiple

reasons, health, ethics, the environment,

squeamishness, animal welfare. But we care about them. We also subscribe with varying

degrees of rigidity to an eating philosophy based on the nutritional importance of animal foods.

How do we reconcile these competing loyalties? Should we give up on them? Are they a lost

cause? Should we simply wait for them to come limping towards us with sallow skin and low muscle tone?

I kid, of course. We should absolutely help where and when we can. Yet telling them to just eat

meat doesn't work. If anything, it's counterproductive.

Instead, we can offer productive, legitimately helpful advice from a primal perspective.

Like number one, eat real food. Don't waste time with fake meat products and vegetarian junk food.

Skip the Tofurky, the boca burgers, the canola-infused mock chicken nuggets, the faken, the macaroni,

because if you're willing to eat that dreck just because it vaguely resembles red meat,

you should probably just listen to your body and eat the actual meat.

Number two, don't be a pastaitarian.

Eat plants.

These are the vegetarians and vegans who subsist almost entirely on pastas, rice, boxed foods,

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