Two things that might both be true: 1) meat-eating protects mental health in humans; 2) eating factory-farmed meat imposes massive suffering on nonhuman animals.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1252527214937194497 …
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The much simpler explanation seems to be that psychological reasons for going vegetarian (e.g. deviancy, compassion for the world's problems, caring a lot about suffering, interest in dieting) are also things that cause mental health issues.
Yep. Without random assignment, there are way too many genetic and phenotypic confounds.
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I was just thinking this. People can have an overload of empathy and feel visceral reactions to suffering that is normal and unavoidable in everyday life. It may be this that causes them to be vegan and depressed at the same time, not vegan jam causing depression.
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“Well adjusted” people may just mean people who see and understand there is suffering and pain and just don’t have a visceral reaction about it.
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