Reply #44: Or, you know, some of us need the iron to live. [View All]

[Chovexani]

I have severe anemia and cannot survive on vegetable sourced iron alone--it simply isn't enough. I require a combination of meat and iron-rich vegetables or my body will crash, and hard. I have had more than one nutritionist--one of them very vegan/vegetarian supportive--tell me a vegetarian diet would kill me.

It's ignorant statements like yours that make people think all vegetarians are self-righteous jerks.