As my very competent family doctor used to answer this question:
"How do vegans do it?"
"They don't, they get sick."
So whatever one doctor says is always right? My doctor did not even know about finasteride side effects... But if you want to the authority route for your argumentation fine. Kim A. Williams, former president of the American College of Cardiology. recommends a vegan diet to people suffering from heart disease (still #1 cause of death in the USA) since it has been scientifically proven to be the only diet that can actually reverse cardiovascular disease. But hey, you are entitled to believe your own doctor over him.
The short answer is that humans are just not designed to live only on carbs, veggies and fruits.
Ok ther are a few things wrong with this statement.
You are either 1) misinformed or 2) you are making a strawman fallacy.
1) Apples and oranges (pun not intended). Carbs are a macronutrient, veggies and fruits are not. Besides that, there are a lot more things you can eat besides vegetables and fruits. You obviously need more than just carbs. You also need fat and protein which you can get from all kinds of non-animal products.
2) I never said you can only live from carbs, veggies and fruits. I said vegan diet can have health benefits. A normal vegan diet is more than veggies and fruits. Again, non-animal products have protein and fat too.
Our bodies are not designed for one specific diet. Most healthy people can live on different kinds of diets. A vegan diet is one of those diets. If you can show me a proper research showing that a whole-foods plant based diet on average shows lower life expectancy I am happy to change my position on this.
"You're not doing it right!" is a cheap marketing trick that scammers will often use.
Source?
Eating right is more than just making sure that you get enough proteins... I sometimes have a week where my diet is 90% animal product-free. I don't need to think about it much. I just get my black beans, lentils and rice. On average I consume 140 g of proteins a day and it is not hard at all.Eating right, and by that I mean eating a high-protein diet, is not hard. I don't need to think about much, I just get my steak with extra chicken, cheese and some vegetables.
Sure if it is not what you are used too it might take some research to know what contains what, but in my opinion that does not mean it is hard. Some goes for working out. In the beginning I had no idea what I was doing but after some research you know what to do and how to do it and it has become a second nature.
And that does the trick for me, better health, sharper mind and I build more muscle.
Good for you
No elaborate diet plan that I have to follow to a T so it's done "properly".
Neither do I.
Vegans usually need to get a life or more precisely, to get a religion and to get God, instead falling prey to ideologies that feed you lies and slowly kill you in the long run.
Which lies are you talking about exactly? And can you provide a scientific source for that last statement?
Not calling the kettle black, I once probably said similar things when I still felt this aversion against vegans. For some reason it kind of feels like talking to my racist grandmother that has never actually seen a black person.