Re: Bonnie - All I watched was Mic’s response video and even after watching that I have no opinion, except that it seems futile to speculate unless one is in possession of all the facts, test results. Did they provide them in their video? Also if fiber is a real issue there is still resistant starch to feed your gut bacteria and if trying to gain weight is a problem there are higher fat foods like Tahini, peanut butter, flax, avocados etc that will work just fine.
Vegetable Police has recently said that his gut issues have to do with a mesh surgically implanted to address a hernia from many years back. Although I enjoyed some of his content from back before he went carni – I think that overall he is too quick to draw erroneous and sweeping conclusions to the data that is presented to him. He also makes $$ from youtube and it appears that might be his sole income. Many of his videos are click bait and sensational in their content and I believe $$ motive cannot be ruled out for some of the things he says and does.
Moon and Rock – I watched their “no longer vegan” testimony and the stated initial reason was a complete anecdote: Something about being a pianist and having brain fog, and then hearing from a fellow musician that eating meat suddenly brought on mental clarity. So he tried it and “bam” - he could sight read better! Psh.
Complete Bull. I am also a pianist and play Bach fugues, Mozart, Liszt etc and have experienced 0 “mental fog” nor sight reading issues since going vegan. I also compose music, do video editing, work with Bash (Bourne again Shell – Unix/Linux), do some basic programming and assist with hardware/computer troubleshooting and repair. These activities can be somewhat mentally taxing but I’ve never had an issue when consuming the foods I do and getting enough calories.
I also don't think Moon and Rock are 'orthorexic' I find it difficult to believe that an orthorexic who happens to be vegan, and for multiple years would not be aware of all the negatives that comes with eating animal products. It’s like saying 1==5. Does not compute. Error. As an aside, this term wasn't introduced until 1997. It's a proposed condition that basically reflects the opinion of one man - Steven Bratman. Formal criteria weren't even formulated until 2016! So someone throwing the term around should just be aware that they are using the appeal to authority fallacy and Bratman as that authority.
From my perspective as a new vegan with just a year and few months under my belt, my meat eating experiences are still pretty fresh in my mind, and all the negatives that go with that. A 10 year vegan going back to eating animal products – I can’t believe it happened over night. The idea must have been romanced in their head, and at some point they got lazy and started eating them here and there, eventually that became more and now they crave them due to habit and altered gut microbiota. Combine that with a few too many processed junk food items and there’s a recipe for disaster. Then comes a video where all this is misrepresented or left out and eating a corpse is the one thing that “worked”. Meat eating doctor approved. Too skinny? Gut problems? Eat a corpse or animal secretion. High fat more calorie dense vegan foods like flax, avocado, Tahini, peanut butter and other higher fat plant foods? Nah.