Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

But there are a lot of studies showing a correlation between eating animal protein and fats with increased all-cause mortality. The idea that you can characterize "vegan" as a universally good diet, however, is mistaken. A diet of potato chips, gummy bears, and Coca Cola is "vegan", but it certainly could not be called a healthy diet.

There are "ethical vegans" and "dietary vegans" (although the ethical vegans like to think they are the only "true vegans" ) It wouldn't surprise me to discover that dietary vegans, as a whole, get a healthier diet than ethical vegans, since I've known a handful of "ethical vegans" who eat crap, just because it's vegan, whereas "dietary vegans" are a lot more particular about what they DO eat, rather than focusing on what they DON'T eat. I prefer the newer label "whole food plant based" to "vegan" anyway, since "vegan" carries a lot of same kind of negative connotations as "fundamentalist", having been pushed too hard by too many crusading zealots over the years.