Argumentative Essay On Vegan Diet

Vegan Diet and Health Outcomes In modern Western world, where the people’s agency in the health maintenance is vividly emphasized, a huge variety of diets that deviate from what was traditionally considered a ‘norm’, come to the fore and become more and more popular. Health outcomes and the effectiveness of such diets are the objects of both scientific and non-scientific disputes, leading to the existence of many discourses around the topic of food that is healthy. The paper analyzes three articles that discuss vegetarians and vegan plant-based diet and its effect on individual’s health. The articles are the following - "The Deadly Dangers of Veganism", "Position of the American Dietetic Association: Vegeterian Diets", and "Health Effects

The author gives twenty examples of concrete individuals or families who have been damaged by veganism, and uses "pathos" writing tool to appeal to reader’s emotions and evoke compassion. Namely, the author uses many examples of children’s health being damaged by vegan diet to make his argument on the negative effects of veganism more persuasive. More specifically, the author claims that ‘vegan baby could not lift head, could not crawl and had minimal muscle strength’ (International Natural Hygiene Society) to evoke reader’s disapproval of veganism. Apart from this, the author widely uses logos, especially the inductive reasoning, in his article. He mentions the story of Muhatma Gandhi, who "devoted much of his life to the advocacy of strict vegetarian diet" (International Natural Hygiene Society), but in the very end declared veganism fraudulent. Thus, the author attempts to draw generalization from this representative case about vegan lifestyle in general to demonstrate its ineffectiveness. In his article, the author also provides data support and quotes from experts, which makes the article look more credible and