"All That Stands Between Me and a Vegetarian Diet"

A slightly stupid, but nonetheless important, article about vegetarian diets in the Washington Post today. The author claims that she wants to go vegetarian, but evidently cheeseburgers are more powerful than her desire to be healthy or her abhorrence of factory farming/animal slaughtering - she doesn't specify her motivation, such as it is.

Once she is finally done explaining how close she is to being vegetarian - she doesn't consume any animal products except: dairy products, eggs, and meat, including fish, fowl, and mammal - she finally gets to the point, which is: the American Dietetic Association has finally accepted that vegan and vegetarian diets are healthy. !!

After years of misleading people by saying that they cannot be nutritionally complete and are not suitable for certain age groups (the very young, the very old), the ADA has finally confronted the mounting evidence and has sort of accepted that EVEN BEING VEGAN won't actually kill you.

They also indicate that you must take special pains to ensure that you get your B-12. The article makes it sound like we have to scour the remotest regions of the earth searching for B-12, but actually I just buy little bottles of it for $5 at Trader Joe's. Then I take the pills every day. Of course, I apparently have some sort of superhuman willpower because I can make decisions about my life even when offered cheseseburgers.