Myth # 13 : " But Hitler was a vegan ."
Myth # 13 : " But Hitler was a vegan ."
Aside from the fact that there is ample evidence in the historical record showing that Hitler regularly consumed animals *, it is far more important to note that it is completely irrelevant whether he did or didn ' t … Just as Mahatma Gandhi , Benjamin Franklin , George Bernard Shaw , Albert Einstein , John Wesley , Voltaire , Leonardo da Vinci , Paul McCartney , Plato , Pythagoras , Isaac Newton and St . Frances of Assisi having been vegans doesn ' t make veganism more morally compelling , so Hitler being a vegan ( if he were , which he wasn ’ t ) wouldn ' t make it any less so . Indeed , if it were ever to be shown that Hitler had even gone vegan for one week of his life , that information would actually be a positive for Hitler – not a negative for veganism .
In addition , I find myself wondering : if you think Hitler was so bad because of what he did to millions of Jews the 1930 ' s and early 1940 ' s , what gives you the right to argue in favor of an industry that exacts even greater cruelties on billions of equally innocent and equally sentient beings today ?
Current status of this Myth : Overthrown Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
* Even though he may indeed have dabbled in the health benefits of a vegetarian diet , Hitler was known to regularly consume liver dumplings , Bavarian sausages , stuffed pigeon , and caviar . Indeed , there are many first-hand reports from hotel staff and personal chefs that attest to the fact that he ate dishes made of animals or animal products until his bitter end . Indeed , according to Robert Payne ( Hitler ' s biographer ), the claim that Adolf was a vegetarian was actually made up by Goebbels to make Hitler seem more moral and more ascetic ; ironically – more like Gandhi .
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