The title page of the new edition of Weltwoche reads in bold letters: “Vegan food makes you stupid”. And turn into cannibals, according to the lead.
It is not surprising that such a title was followed by many reactions on the Internet. Especially on Twitter, the offensive headline on Thursday led to ridicule and outrage at the same time.
“Who needs a ‘Nebelspalter'”, writes a journalist, for example Gabriel Brönnimann, and thus plays on the newly published satirical sheet by Markus Somm at. Also SP National Councilor Franziska Roth comments ironically: “What do you have to eat in order to create such intelligent titles?”
A headline that cannot be taken seriously. Even publisher and editor-in-chief of the paper Roger Köppel points out the provocation factor in a video message about the new edition and explains: “Provocation makes life interesting.” Just to ask the question is sacrilege.
So is it just a matter of crossing borders in order to have crossed them? Or is there a legitimate criticism of the vegan diet hidden in the article?
The text in “Weltwoche” comes from Udo Pollmer, a German food chemist and non-fiction author who repeatedly shoots against dietary recommendations, diets and vaccinations.
Michael Frauchiger, Chairman of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) in Zurich, writes on Twitter about the content: «This article reveals more about him (Pollmer) and his crude way of thinking than he is dear and aware of. There is nothing instructive about the vegan diet here. “
The Klein Report also ventured into this “crude way of thinking” by Udo Pollmer and comments as follows: The text gives you exactly what the title promises: Lots of provocative statements such as “Avoiding meat arouses the worst qualities in us”, “Veganism is the home of an uprooted generation ”and“ Maybe those who refused to eat had a difficult childhood ”, but one looks in vain for causal connections and well-founded statements in the text.
Anyone who calls cannibalism an “inevitable consequence of veganism” and cites the vegans’ idea of avoiding “alleged animal suffering” as the reason has failed to understand something fundamental about the whole thing.
Especially in times of a global pandemic and an environmental crisis, the cause of which is, among other things, incorrect animal husbandry, such a text is not only out of place, but also embarrassing, concludes the Klein Report.
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