1) It is socially acceptable and commercially encouraged to eat a diet high in meat, fat, and processed foods. This diet is driven by advertising. This diet contributes to higher rates of Crohn’s disease.
2) Big pharma can’t monetize vegetables, so they have no incentive to get people to eat the foods that lower the risk/protect us from Crohn’s disease. (although Monsanto is trying to patent broccoli apparently.)
3) There has been a correlation/positive association between MAP (a bacteria that causes a Crohn’s like illness in cows and other ruminating livestock) and Crohn’s disease in humans. MAP is in drinking water and dairy products, and survives chlorination and pasteurisation. If MAP infection indeed does cause Crohn’s disease, we will continue to see increased levels of Crohn’s disease as long as we continue industrial factory farming of livestock.
4) Industrialized agriculture and chemical fertilizer and pesticide use has destroyed much of the soil microbiome of our farmland. The soil microbiome influences our gut microbiome when we eat fruit and vegetables. This also means our fruits and vegetables have less nutrient density than they have in the past. As long as industrial monocroping and big agriculture continue, shifting the caloric intake of our society to wheat, soy, and corn, we will continue to see rising rates of Crohn’s disease and gut disbiosis.
And this is why, for the health of our species and our planet, and myself, we have to destroy industrial capitalism.
Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease 