> David H writes:
>> The China Study is vegan propaganda. There are so many misleading
>> points in
>> it that I would label it as intellectually dishonest. A good
>> dissection is
>> at http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp-anat/comp-anat-8e.shtml
>>

Another point to remember is that this is China we are talking about
here. Mythology about the Chinese diet is rampant. One I have heard is
that the Chinese despise milk. Huh, they didn't ask my Chinese friends
about that. The Chinese actually invented ice cream! Funny thing to be
playing about with frozen milk if they can't stand the stuff! Another
is that they eat little meat. Well, they eat less beef than some other
peoples, but they eat lots of things my mother never served me for
dinner, like monkey, various insects and reptiles etc, besides the
usual pigs and chickens and fish. I have to wonder how much of this
food shows up on a neat little chart in a book.

Finally, this is CHINA we are talking about. You really believe people
are going to open up their lives to some poking prying outsider with a
tape recorder and a camera and notebook? I am sure they told him
exactly what they thought the local CP wanted them to say. Disease
rates? 'Oh no, Mr. Foreigner, we don't got no cancer here, not
never.....' Just like the SARS epidemic last year, the Chinese
government statistics can't be trusted. Any supposed health survey
taken in a totalitarian country has to be assumed from the beginning to
be skewed for cheap political gain. That is true enough in democratic
countries, how much more there. I take nothing at face value from any
top-down organized country, and the more sharply top-down, the less
reliable it is. (Another rant. Sorry folks, some things just set me off)