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Other commentors have made some good rebuttals but there's an obvious one missing:
The vast, vast majority of people do cannot or could not be bothered putting this much effort into nutrition. You are obviously an outlier, being an amateur athlete who seems to get some enjoyment out of monitoring your nutrition needs like a hawk. Most people cannot or do not want to do this. If you're a 'casual vegan' (in that you just eat vegan and you are not monitoring your food for nutrient content) it is incredibly easy to end up with a vitamin or some other deficiency. I've seen it happen to multiple friends and family who have gone vegan.
It is far, far easier (in fact, it's the norm) to eat a nutritionally complete diet incidentally as a non-vegan. And this is not even considering the mental energy expended on working out whether certain food is vegan in the first place, let alone the nutritional content of said food.
On the other hand, the vast majority of people cannot be bothered to put the effort into learning as much about nutrition as bodybuilders, yet because bodybuilders did the hard work and shared their findings the knowledge has percolated downwards to the point where a highschooler can pretty quickly learn what he needs to do to get big. Veganism is a bigger task but knowledge about common deficiencies you need to watch out for on a vegan diet seems like something that could spread over a few decades.
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Metaphor doesnt check out.
A very conscientious, literate hawk
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I made the exact same argument.
They say great minds think alike.
(I didn't see your comment until after I made mine)
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