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Originally Posted by moviestar  First of all, rats are not humans.
Second, Philippinians are a selected group of people that might tolerate protein differently.
Third examine who sponsored the study. I'll bet 10$ that soy companies did this research. |
1) The study started with animals, but later moved onto humans. The research results they're talking about are from humans.
2) Phillipians weren't the only ones tested. THat was just one part of the study.
3) Nope. The research wasn't paid for by SOY companies. The major funding came from National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Cancer Society and the American Institute for Cancer Research who have no hidden conspiracy agenda to promote SOY or vegetarian products.
Also, not targeting the following specifically at YOU, but rather the meat eating/defending group of people:
That whole arguement of discrediting research studies that show that meat is bad because suppedly there's a vegetarian conspiracy involved with the research being paid for by SOY companies is kinda weak. How do you know that PRO-MEAT studies aren't paid for by the Beef and Cattle companies? If you're going to discredit research studies due to bias caused by their $ backing, then you have to discount ALL of them, not just the ones that disagree with your point of view.
As I said before, I'm a meat eater. I still eat meat. But only because it tastes good, not because it's good for me. I know it's crap and am slowly decreasing my consumption of it. If I had the discipline, I'd cut out all red meat right now. I've seen enough evidence that it's bad stuff. And I have no spiritual reason for it either. Meaning, although I like animals, I wouldn't stop eating meat just because of that reason. For me it would be a purely health related issue.
I see meat just like Coca-Cola. We all know it's bad for us. We drink it anways, because it tastes good and water tastes like crap. So for now I still drink it once in a while but I know it's bad, just like eating a donut. What's funny about MEAT is that even though there is overwhelming evidence that it isn't good for you, people get so offended by the suggestion that it's bad for us, you'd think we're asking to remove their testicles or something. It's like if you don't eat MEAT you're not a REAL MAN. If you don't eat meat you must be WEAK. It's like we don't want to give it up because it reminds us of the caveman days we miss where we could eat meat and walk around with clubs wacking women in the head and pulling them into our caves by their hair or something.
If you need to eat meat to feel like a man, then keep eating it. I'm not going to stop you, nor should anybody else. But to suggest that one MUST eat meat otherwise they will die of malnutrition is pretty ignorant.
I'm not even going to start with how bad MILK is for you either.
The battle between MEAT vs. VEGETARIAN is and will still be a battle of EGO's for a long time.