Most of what this article claims about diet is not supported by the evidence. Typically vegans/vegetarians care a lot more about their diet, and will eat less of other things, like refined sugar and flour -- also linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.
The Authoritarian Left (i.e. Obama administration et al) would love to make meat the new tabacco... Wait a minute! 'Meat _IS_ the New Tobacco'! They are on the case already, dictating the agenda, wrapping our language in their swaddling clothes, to meet their Utopian ideals. Count me out.