As EquALLity asked, we would be interested in knowing why you left veganism. However, this slanted survey (that is, a survey that gives away the answers it expects), rather reveals how you felt about veganism when you were vegan, and probably why you left.
pokerply wrote:1)Is vegan diet "best" and/or "perfect"?
There is no such thing as a single vegan diet.
There are bad and good diets that happen to be vegan.
All other things being the same, a person who eats one egg a week, or a glass of milk each week is statistically not going to be as healthy as a person who eats broccoli instead provided the latter is getting B-12.
Whether removing a thing from a diet is good or bad depends on what it's replaced by. If you replace egg and milk with vegan doughnuts, you may not be better off.
When animal products are replaced by vegetables, the diet is better than one that includes those animal products.
There is no such thing as a "perfect" diet. That's absurd, and if you believed that when you were vegan, it's no wonder you gave it up; you were following a dogma, not a lifestyle.
pokerply wrote:2)Are you emotionally attached to vegan diet?
No, that's absurd.
I'm emotionally attached to being a decent human being, and not unnecessarily harming animals for my enjoyment. This just generally happens to require a vegan diet to do.
The attachment is indirect.
I have no problem with people eating meat out of garbage cans which would literally go to waste (freegan). I wouldn't do this, however, because I also personally find it disgusting, and it's unhealthy. To each his or her own though, as long as they aren't harming others.
pokerply wrote:3)Do you belief that any meat or dairy in the diet will lead to some type disease long-term? (more then vegan diet will do alternatively)
This question indicates your ignorance of nutrition and health matters in general.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will not lead to some kind of disease in the long-term. It will only
probably lead to disease. Nothing is guaranteed. In the population as a whole, where you have a statistically significant number of people, smoking leads to disease (but not in every case).
Different people are more or less resistant, and most of the disease we're talking about are statistical issues; particularly ones like cancer.
You can get cancer from a single cigarette, or you can smoke every day for 90 years and not get cancer.
Your odds of getting cancer go up the more you smoke, but it's all a matter of statistics.
And again, I have to remind you, there is no such thing as a single vegan diet.
You can design a vegan diet that has a high risk of cancer and heart disease. However, if you want to design a diet which has the lowest risk possible, you will need to exclude "natural" animal products, because these increase your risk factors (you will also exclude things like palm oil, coconut oil, peanuts, and even some healthy plant foods which have low antioxidant content, since it's an issue of maximizing healthy food).
pokerply wrote:Just want hear opinions on theses questions
I have no "opinions" on these questions, aside possibly from #2 if you
stretch the definition, any more than I have "opinions" on whether the Earth is round and orbits the sun. These are matters of scientific fact. And the nature of the questions themselves indicate a complete ignorance of health science on your part.
Whenever you went vegan, it is apparent that you followed it mindlessly, like a dogmatic religion, believing just not eating animal products was the cure to all human problems. This is a problem with a lot of "vegans".
Animal products are bad. But there are plenty of vegan foods that are bad too. In order to eat as healthfully as possible, that means abstaining from unhealthy food, including animal products AND unhealthy vegan foods.
pokerply wrote: without any debate about ethics of eating animal products.
Thanks.
It's not your place to demand something like that.
If you're eating animal products (arguably aside from rope-grown oysters, and invasive species), and you're not a freegan, you're being unethical. This is an open forum, and people can speak their minds freely. You shouldn't expect to be immune from criticism.