Looks like Tesla and Einstein missed the "low IQ vegan" memo.
Nikola Tesla gradually moved toward vegetarianism over the course of his life and was vegetarian in his later years.
"It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think therefore that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarous habit."
— Nikola Tesla
Tesla also wrote:
"To stop the ruthless slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals, and to divert our energies and resources from animal husbandry, would be of immense benefit."
Albert Einstein became largely vegetarian near the end of his life due to health concerns and long-standing ethical reservations about eating animals.
"It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
— Albert Einstein
He also wrote:
"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
And they're hardly alone. Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Peter Singer, and many others have advocated vegetarian or vegan diets. Far too many to cover in a comment.
Personally, I don't think it takes much imagination to suppose that if Tesla or Einstein were alive today and saw the atrocities of modern factory farming, they would be even more critical of it—going vegan.
For my part, I avoid animal byproducts for a number of reasons. Health is one. The suffering involved in factory farming is another.
If I knew animals were genuinely being cared for and treated well, I wouldn't have the same objection to things like dairy. Dairy can be beneficial in moderation.
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Know your farmer
Eating, whatever, is not only the act of energy intake and nutrition.
It's a process which is in most cases doesn't linked to the reflection and awareness what is eaten. This has nothing do do with IQ levels. It's awareness.
Eat whatever you want, but realize what you do.
Written by a healthy, lucky vegetarian.
You’re citing *vegetarians*, not *vegans*. Do you have any examples of high IQ vegans?
Also, if those men had been raised as vegan from early childhood do you think they would have been as smart?
Regardless, your argument makes no sense. Everyone agrees factory farming is bad, but that doesn’t make eating meat and animal byproducts bad. You can make conscious choices about where you source your food from. Arguing that eating meat is bad because factory farming is bad is like saying “owning dogs is bad because puppy mills are bad”, or “using wood is bad because clear-cutting is bad”, or “using electricity is bad because coal is bad”, or “wearing clothes is bad because fast fashion is bad”… or, to bring it back to food, “eating vegetables is bad because monoculture farming is bad”.
You are conflating the method of production with the thing itself.
From another perspective, what about meat that you hunt yourself? I grew up eating venison. If you don’t kill a shitload of deer every year, they get overpopulated and get diseases. They also fuck up local ecology and cause all sorts of problems you might not expect (e.g. increased erosion, which destroys habitats of other animals and has huge ripple effects). Hunting helps manage deer population and also provides meat for hunters to eat. Is it bad to hunt and eat what you kill, while respecting the animal and using every part of it you can?
Surely you’re not suggesting Einstein was as big brained as a bitcoin podcaster!?!?!?
