Anti-Vegan Professor Likes to Take It From Cattlemen

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Strike One: UC Davis professor Lindsay Allen found herself amid international press coverage and the target of wrath from vegans around the globe for comments she made at a scientific conference that vegan diets for children are "unethical."

Strike Two: The basis for her "research" was on already malnurished children in Kenya according to other scientists.

Strike Three: Her efforts were funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and its publication supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Land O'Lakes, and Heifer International.


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Posted by Tristan on 2007-08-29 14:11:07
Strike 4, she forced 7 year old Kenyan children to stay on a subsistence diet of corn and beans for 2 years as the control group. She gets the bs crown.

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