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Vegan Is Not Always Healthy, Neither Plant Based! Or is it?

 May, 6 2017 

Wait, Wait, Wait, before you all jump on me, but vegan is healthy etc.

Yap, I am an advocate of Vegan/Plant Based lifestyle, I have nothing bad to write about that part, but I do have allot to say about business who take “the ride” on the vegan lifestyle. It is only my own opinion so please don’t take what I say in this post as facts, it is simply my opinion.

I was invited by close a friend of mine to a new restaurant down town Toronto, called “Planta”, on Bay street and Cumberland.  http://www.plantatoronto.com/

She told me it is a new vegan place, I heard about it from 2 other people and when she offered I got really excited. dinning out is not really my thing and normally I like one place in particular when going out. However, I am flexible enough to try new things.

Anyway, why this post come-up? when I looked in the menu, a lot of items were defined in “carnivorous spelling”, such as fish, bacon, meet etc, which normally, in vegan places you will have an explanation in the menu of the meaning or the ingredients of those items.  Since there was non, I asked the waitress (which by the way, service was great and kind) if all the items on the menu are VEGAN. Using specifically the word vegan.

Before saying yes or no, she did take the time to clear that they do not call it vegan, since that for them means that you take a vegan lifestyle and they call it Plant based, and only after clarifying that, she said it is plant-based.

For me; Plant Based is Vegan and HEALTHY, that’s how I perceive plant-based. and vegan to me, is simply no animal ingredients, but has not necessarily healthy. fries could be vegan yet, far from being healthy, personally, I find it hard to say; “here have fries it is plant-based, even though they are in most cases vegan, (most cases, cause some are being fried in beef or pigs oil, yes, I was shocked as well).

Yes, it is the semantic of wording, and normally I would not even bother taking the time to write it up, but you already opened a vegan place, that basically serves “regular” style food without animal products. dip fried veggies, pizza, and more, don’t get me wrong, this post is not about good or bad food, the pizza was delicious, but please, take pride using the word VEGAN as well in your restaurant, verses creating an impression of plant-based.

So at the end of the day, if you wish to enjoy a good dine out experience good vegan food, go and enjoy it, it was great.

My point is: The fact that something is either vegan or plant-based doesn’t make it automatically healthy. It took me many years and I am still learning MY OWN definition of healthy. so let us all keep explore.

Yours Ilan Halfon

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