Interesting bit about the Mediterranean diet.

A director of public health I used to work with (Dr Richard Richards) wrote a PhD thesis years ago about Greece. His mother is Greek and he looked at mortality and morbidity in Greece over time compared to prevalence of junk food availability. Dates of first McDonalds and Burger King and over the years how changes in diet of younger people led to earlier cancers and coronary heart disease in that generation.

Fascinating reading.

I'm not personally too interested in a vegan diet, nor indeed vegetarian but the health benefits of the variations in diet tend to couple to being varied and in moderation. Hence health benefits. Many of which can be achieved with meat.

But it's a choice and choices deserve respect.