Guest guest Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 One does not get hepatitis from eating a vegetarian diet. While there is an autoimmune induced hepatitis which has a genetic component, hepatitis is almost always infectious. One must wonder what kind of doctors have been diagnosing and treating you. Kim >Dear Friend, > > I am Atanu Dey from North Eastern part of India. I am a >vegetarian for last ten years and an ethical vegan for two years >last. I belong to a place, where per capita income is not very high >and where non-vegetarian food is perceived as balanced diet >considering the socio-economic structure of the area. I had >undertaken a silent experiment on myself about how to maintain >nutrient supplement and sufficient calorie for a normal working >person with vegetarian or vegan diet while maintaining the cost of >ones daily food at lower end. It was essential to maintain the cost >of the diet at low because here the per capita income is not very >good and it is believed, the cost of vegetarian diet to be more >compared to cheaper source of non-vegetarian food. It was hard to >propagate the ideology and philosophy of love for animals and >ethical veganism to others though the result of my experiment on my >own was apparently very good as I maintained a very healthy body >with cheaper and easily > available vegan food. > > But, very recently in the Month of April '05, I developed acute >hepatitis and it almost spoiled the liver. I was detected a shrunk >lever which, I was told was very rare contrary to expansion of >liver. The Doctors straightly blamed it on my long followed food >habit and it took no time to spread among all my known ones. I had >to be rushed to a bigger hospital and needed intensive and expensive >treatment for long days to recuperate partially. > > Now, at this point of time, I find myself standing on the ruins >of all I had and all I tried to make bit by bit. I find my health >lost and organ (liver) damaged to an extent, I find all my savings >finished to end in treatment and most of all, I find my philosophy >of sympathy for animals and ethical treatment for them suffering a >humiliating setback to all my known and even unknowns in my place. > > Friend, here, I express my regret and my embarrassment to >engage you in a problem which essentially is very personal to me but >just as we are in the fraternity and share a great common ethic and >ideology, it drives me to ask for a response from you to help me >regain my courage to re-engage myself for the great cause of >sympathy and care for animals. > >With care and thanks, > > > >Atanu Dey > >M/s Dey's Engineering > >Sib Bari Rd., P.O. Diphu > >Dist. Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. > >PIN 782460 > > -- Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish language subsections. Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion that " people come first' " or that " people are more important than animals. " Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals -- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like to be treated ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 His doctors don't know what they are talking about! He should change doctor. John. - Kim Bartlett aapn Cc: atanu_dey1 Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:19 PM Hepatitis blamed on vegetarianism One does not get hepatitis from eating a vegetarian diet. While there is an autoimmune induced hepatitis which has a genetic component, hepatitis is almost always infectious. One must wonder what kind of doctors have been diagnosing and treating you. Kim >Dear Friend, > > I am Atanu Dey from North Eastern part of India. I am a >vegetarian for last ten years and an ethical vegan for two years >last. I belong to a place, where per capita income is not very high >and where non-vegetarian food is perceived as balanced diet >considering the socio-economic structure of the area. I had >undertaken a silent experiment on myself about how to maintain >nutrient supplement and sufficient calorie for a normal working >person with vegetarian or vegan diet while maintaining the cost of >ones daily food at lower end. It was essential to maintain the cost >of the diet at low because here the per capita income is not very >good and it is believed, the cost of vegetarian diet to be more >compared to cheaper source of non-vegetarian food. It was hard to >propagate the ideology and philosophy of love for animals and >ethical veganism to others though the result of my experiment on my >own was apparently very good as I maintained a very healthy body >with cheaper and easily > available vegan food. > > But, very recently in the Month of April '05, I developed acute >hepatitis and it almost spoiled the liver. I was detected a shrunk >lever which, I was told was very rare contrary to expansion of >liver. The Doctors straightly blamed it on my long followed food >habit and it took no time to spread among all my known ones. I had >to be rushed to a bigger hospital and needed intensive and expensive >treatment for long days to recuperate partially. > > Now, at this point of time, I find myself standing on the ruins >of all I had and all I tried to make bit by bit. I find my health >lost and organ (liver) damaged to an extent, I find all my savings >finished to end in treatment and most of all, I find my philosophy >of sympathy for animals and ethical treatment for them suffering a >humiliating setback to all my known and even unknowns in my place. > > Friend, here, I express my regret and my embarrassment to >engage you in a problem which essentially is very personal to me but >just as we are in the fraternity and share a great common ethic and >ideology, it drives me to ask for a response from you to help me >regain my courage to re-engage myself for the great cause of >sympathy and care for animals. > >With care and thanks, > > > >Atanu Dey > >M/s Dey's Engineering > >Sib Bari Rd., P.O. Diphu > >Dist. Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. > >PIN 782460 > > -- Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish language subsections. Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion that " people come first' " or that " people are more important than animals. " Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals -- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like to be treated ourselves. For more information on Asian animal issues, please use the search feature on the AAPN website: http://www.aapn.org/ or search the list archives at: aapn Please feel free to send any relevant news or comments to the list at aapn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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