DaveyDoom
Well-Known Member
You are correct, I should have been more specific. What are some of the reasons people choose a vegan lifestyle? Morals? I really don't know. But I do know that we would not be here if it weren't for meat. We are born hunters, and we are at the top of chain, thank goodness.As a strict vegetarian I take exception to that last statement for two reasons:
1) To speak categorically about all vegans (I do not prefer that term) is to ignore the fact that people choose not to eat meat for numerous and vastly different reasons.
2) Most of us understand the natural order of things all too well, which is why we choose a meatless diet. We understand there is a spectrum of living things. Plants do not have brain stems. Plants are not sentient creatures.
I mentioned thresholds in an earlier post. Some vegetarians have bought into the argument put forth by the person who wrote the original piece that the OP chose to copy and paste.
They are called fruitarians. Many believe it is immoral to eat any living thing so they are relegated to eating the fruit of living things. Their diet threshold is lower than mine, just as mine is lower than yours. Now I may roll my eyes when I think of them, but it is not my place to criticize their diet, simply because it does not affect me at all.
To turn your nose up at the very thing that has sustained us since the beginning of time is a sure sign of how far we have removed ourselves from the earth. We put up these barriers and we make rules that have no validity.
Example:
Everything listed above has nothing to do with meat consumption. But you are half right on the brussel sprouts. All of those ailments you listed are a direct result of over processed foods, sugar, and additives, not meat. It is crazy to even think such a thing. There is absolutely no proof of this. What did they tell the doc? Oh, I eat meat. That has to be it. Nevermind that I eat twinkies and tons of other highly refined, bleached, hydrogenated foods. It couldn't have been none of that that gave me cancer.Health Problems Linked to Meat Consumption:
Diabetes Mellitus
Colorectal Cancer
Breast Cancer
Obesity
Cardiovascular Disease
Thrombosis
Impotence
Health Problems Linked to Brussels Sprout Consumption:
I do applaud the fact that you stick with whole foods like I do, but all I am saying is give meat a chance. It is not the villain.
What do you mean by "thresholds"? I don't understand.