speed said:
Well we are not totally carnivores like dogs, we are omnnivores. Look, your body needs protein; and nuts, and eggs and soy(which wasnt around) were not plentiful enough in early stages of human development. And also, one needs meat for iron, and one needs some cholesterol in ones diet believe it or not. Hence, we ate meat. We banded together in tribes or clans, and hunted. This is nothing new here. There is no controversy. The difference is, wild animals are quite lean (8-10% fat that would mostly burn off during cooking), whereas farm raised engineered animals are quite fatty.
Furthermore, the introduction of meat into a non-meat diet, produces bigger and smarter people and offspring. The workhouses of the ancient pyramid builders were filled with animal bones. Even the ancients, who had reverted to a grain based diet, figured this out. I also point your attention to every primitive culture in the world today: they all eat meat. In fact, those cultures that did not have the land for meat consumption, still even then, the nobles ate meat, and any peasant would have considered even a piece of tripe, a feast.
Finally, I remind you, that besides Americans, a lesser number of Europeans, and some religious southern Indians (and I remind you, that the Brahmins and higher class of Indians eat every kind of meat but cow, and furthermore, this religious restriction may have been done for control and economic reasons) there is no one else in the world today that doesnt consume some kind of animal flesh. ITs a natural part of human society. In fact, one hundred years ago, we would be having this conversation, as only a handful of people in the world would have objected.
I think you would have a totally different view of meat, if livestock wasnt raised in the manner it is now.
I'm sorry but you're wrong on several accounts. I've researched this for over six years and I can honestly say that:
A) Dogs are omnivores, not carnivores. Cats are carnivores. Dogs eat almost anything they can get their paws on.
B) The protein myth is exactly that----A myth. Come up by the Meat and Dairy Council, which, believe it or not, practically own the Food and Drug Administration in this country. Too much protein, which is extremely common in America, is bad for you. You'd be surprised how little protein we're actually made to consume, and the effects that too much have on our bodies (for women--- think osteoperosis. It doesn't have to do with just calcium.)
C) There is PLENTY, and when I say plenty I mean the proper amount, of iron in green vegetables like broccoli, and spinach, and in legumes and fruit. Which are better for you than meat anyway because they have antioxidants, fiber and more variety of vitamins than meat does to keep your immune system healthy.
D) Your body MAKES IT'S OWN CHOLESTEROL! Hence, that is how we get it!
E) Soybeans are a type of bean/legume. Who the hell says that beans weren't around then? There was definetly beans at whatever time in history you're thinking of.
"there is no one else in the world today that doesnt consume some kind of animal flesh. "
Not true. There are still islands around the world where people never eat meat and rarely sometimes fish and are strong, peaceful and live to be well over 100 years old, because their bodies are kept in such wonderful shape and cancer and heart disease is almost nonexistent because they are not clogging their arteries with cholesteral and their colons with shit.
I agree that meat can be a part of the human diet, however it should be a small part of it, if it even is a part. People who live that way, like many cultures of Native Americans, grow to be incredibly strong and it's a fact that people who eat mainly plant foods have amazing endurance, something that meat eaters, just physically can't have. (And I'm talking about humans. Natural carnivores like tigers have incredible endurance because they are meant to eat meat).
Like I said, I've studied and seen the effects of eating and not eating meat have on the human body. I see it every day. We consume
much too much of it.
Oh yeah and one more thing,
"Furthermore, the introduction of meat into a non-meat diet, produces bigger and smarter people and offspring."
Says who?? Albert Einstein was a vegetarian for christ's sake!
