How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence

Unsurprisingly, studies have shown a link between eating meat and improved intellect. One such study gave additional soup to Kenyan schoolchildren, who, being poor, began the study as effective vegans. Some kids got soup with meat; others didn’t. Leading to…

the children who were given the soup containing meat each day seemed to have a significant edge. By the end of the study, they outperformed all the other children on a test for non-verbal reasoning. Along with the children who received soup with added oil, they also did the best on a test of arithmetic ability.

From the sounds of it, the kids who got meat were better at reasoning and math. The vegan kids… well, they sound like the basis of modern woketivists who despise engineering rigor.

Further, there is a direct link between vitamin B12 and IQ… and B12 is not made by plants or fungi. In the natural world, it’s only available through eating meat. iron deficiency also reduces IQ, and the best form of iron comes, you guessed it, not from a vegan diet  but from a carnivorous one. Taurine, creatine and choline are also vital for proper brain function and are also largely absent from vegan diets.

From one point of view, the obvious course of action here is for vegans to take supplements. And for those vegans who are vegans because they have allergies to animal products or other valid medical reasons why they cannot  eat a proper diet, then this seems perfectly proper. But for vegans who are vegans for “ethical” reasons, those who think that humans morally *shouldn’t* eat animals, then taking supplements is just as wrong. Because supplements, unavailable in the wild, are a tacit admission that their ethics do not align with objective reality. Similarly, “ethical” vegans should avoid vegan foods that attempt to replicate the taste and texture of meat… the latest veggieburgers and the like. Because if you’re not supposed to eat meat, you shouldn’t enjoy the simulacra of eating meat.

Adults should be able to eat whatever the frak they want. A vegan diet? Pure potato diet? Nothing but Twinkies? Knock yourself out. But from infancy through adolescence, and likely for some time beyond, a proper omnivorous diet would seem to be biomedically and ethically recommended, and a case can probably be made that such a diet should be legally mandated. The world has a sufficiency of stupid people, we hardly need to be manufacturing more.