So after reading a few posts on the site I realized instead of answering some of the questions, maybe I should just write my own post! So here is the deal, let me start by saying I completely support everyone having the right to choose what they eat and why they eat it - for I feel like I deserve the same respect from others. The topic of being or becoming a vegetarian or vegan of any kind has become, in my eyes, quite a controversial subject. My belief is most vegetarians I have worked with in the past have been no healthier than the people eating all the poisonous meat and processed dairy products. I realize there is a small percentage of vegans or vegetarians that will do the diet properly with enough diligence to really provide the body with what it truly needs, desires and is designed to use as fuel. Most vegetarians in my eyes will trade eating poisonous, toxic, ill-treated animals for processed grain, sugar, soy and many other processed foods our bodies are not designed to eat and or digest.
On a side note I am not naive to the fact that the theory of a vegetarian diet holds weight in the argument in terms of health and prevention of disease. I am not saying that being a vegetarian is not healthy if you do it appropriately. If you eat 4-8 servings of mostly raw, organic or biodynamic vegetables a day and eat a large variety of seeds, nuts, beans and legumes you will still be low on the amount of protein the human body needs to repair everyday and perform at high levels. Most people I know, especially young men and women, are not educated enough to follow a proper vegetarian diet. Yes they may not agree with the way we treat and raise many of the animals in the U.S and or other countries, but this also does not mean that it is all or nothing. There are plenty of farmers who raise animals humanely and provide the animal with a diet that they are designed to eat by Mother Nature.
I can sum this up in a few points that I am sure can be battled till the day ends, but this is what my journey has led me to at this point and what resonates with me and follows the laws of Nature, which to me is more powerful than any law created by a human to decide never to eat meat for what ever reason.
First off, we need to look at the evolution of man and food and what has got us to this point. Yes, we could argue first that the point we are at now is not anything to write home about, but none the less we have made it to this point on a few staples. One of them is vegetables, I got you… you thought I was going to say meat! No, first off, vegetables are definitely a staple of our diets and how we have evolved. Shortly there after does come the meat – yes, meat of all shapes and sizes. The difference in the meat we ate even 100 years ago to what we eat now is the quality. The meat itself is always getting the bad wrap. We need to look closer at the details of the meat and what is being done to it and where it is coming from. When we look at the statistics of heart disease and cancer we never bother to look at the details of the study. We need to wake up. So many people are being brain washed into thinking the meat is what is killing us. Yes it is, but not all of it. The fast food meat we feed our kids is killing them and us. So is almost every piece of meat we get our hands on. But not the free-range, grass-fed beef from the local farmer that our bodies are designed to eat and thrive off of!
We need to put into perspective what is causing the major source of dis-ease in our country. If meat and animal products were the culprit we would be healthy by now. Why? Meat, dairy and butter consumption has gone down in the last 50 years. While sugar, flour, corn and corn derivatives have increased by hundreds of percent. So here is the deal if we look at a simple fact of what we had to eat 10,000 years ago. It would not be a vegan diet with soy milk and grains. There were no soy, wheat, corn or any grain crops. We did not even domesticate animals at this point. So therefore we were not even drinking milk or any other processed dairy crap foods you can think of. We had wild meats that we hunted as nomadic people. We had wild berries and nuts along with some veggies of the wild sort. We did not farm and we did not have animals that we raised ourselves. This, my friends, is the root of all problems when it comes to food.
Please also realize if you are a vegan and you are not eating biodynamically raised foods you are no different than those eating tortured animals filled with growth hormones. It is too often overlooked that plants and soil are filled with billions of microorganisms that get killed when they are farmed improperly and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides daily. Just because the organisms you are killing don’t have big brown eyes and long eye lashes doesn’t mean you are not doing the same thing. Out of sight out of mind - if we do not see it, it must not exist. This is our philosophy. Also I have yet to see the groups of hundreds of thousands of human beings on a vegetarian diet that are free of disease and perfectly healthy and living to 120 years old. I have yet to see these studies whether new or old. I would welcome them with an open heart and mind. I also have not come across any religion or culture no matter how strict that has not had some form of meat or animal product in it.
There are many great things about a vegetarian diet that accompanied with local, fresh, well-raised meats and animal products could be a perfect diet that just makes sense and follows all laws of Mother Nature. I think you can get an idea of where I am coming from at this point. So to conclude, I do not agree 100% with a Vegan or Vegetarian diet. Whether it be for personal or religious reasons I do believe we need meat from a spiritual sense to gather Chi and energy from other living things - done properly with respect and honor that this animal no matter how big or small is in the place to give up their lives to help you sustain yours. If you honor your food and are grateful for the opportunity to feed your mind, body and soul, I see it as opportunity to survive and thrive. When a lion kills an elephant to eat he is honoring his duty as a creature that does nothing more than follow his innate natural instincts.
It seems more often the people doing any diet to extreme are the ones having some difficulty in their lives with some type of dis-ease. When we follow the rules of Mother Nature and strive for balance in every aspect in our lives we become one with the universe and at this point will be free from all dis-ease. If anyone would like more information on this subject feel free to contact me or visit my site. Other resources that will be helpful on this subject would be
www.pricepottenger.org,
Weston A. Price Foundation.