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Originally Posted by Michelle  I share your thinking, Andrew, which is why I started eating meat again after a 2 month vegetarian experiment. I simply was not getting what my body needs. |
Then you werent eating a balanced diet then.
A vegan diet can be trash. Just think chip sandwiches 24/7 its that easy.
The fact is that people who educate themselves properly on nutrition know what to eat and what to avoid.
I avoid meat primarily for ethical reasons, but also secondarily because as a human I am a herbivore.
Humans just dont have predatory instincts like carnivores.
Take the domestic tabby cat. No matter how long you molly cuddle it and over how many generations, as soon as it sees a sparrow or a mouse it drools at the mouth and is off on a stalk. You cannot domesticate predatory instinct.
Humans on the other hand dont drool at the mouth when they pass a cow or a young lamb in a field. They more likely will go all mushy and think, 'how cute'. Nor would many have the nerve to go up to that lamb and rip its throat with our teeth and eat it raw. Why? Firstly, we dont have the instinct to do that. In fact if we saw that new born lamb being stalked by a couple of crows we would probably try to scare the crows away. Also, our teeth are designed to grind vegetation and pulses, nuts etc: not to rip flesh open.
Our stomachs also cant handle meat very well. We simply dont have the levels of hydrocholric acid that carnivores have in theirs. Our stomachs are designed for a herbivore.
We can be brainwashed as much as we want by Milk/Meat Marketing Boards but the biological and psychological facts of humans betrays the advertising every time.