Look i use to hate on vegans. I thought it was stupid, waste of time, making yourself suffer for no reason and so on but at the end of the day, its better to be part of the solution than part of the problem. I wouldnt say eating meat is wrong, but the way we go about it sure is. Factory farming, battery cages, over-milking and so on.. its all pretty fucked up. Thats not to say i dont eat meat and eggs and copious amounts of milk, but at the end of the day i know it would be better for this planet if i didnt... i just choose to be an ignorant fool in the mean time. I know ill turn vegetarian eventually, i can just feel it... slowly over time the thought of becoming vegetarian/vegan has become more and more acceptable to my ideals and set of 'morals' and the amount of substitutes and food's available for vegans is getting bigger and bigger so its becoming less shit to become one.
I mean, humans may well be omnivores by nature, afterall we do have carnivorous teeth in our mouth.. but the way we get our meat IS NOT NATURAL. If you want to go out and hunt a duck, blanch it, pluck it, cook it, then eat it.. GO HARD i dont have a problem with that what so ever... but when people raise birds in tiny ass cages and dont let them see light for the rest of there lives, then i do have a problem, that shit aint natural and its sick - just put yourself in those animals shoes/hooves na saiyan.
moonyham, I understand what you are saying and respect your views, and personally do not have a hate on vegans, you have that wrong, I was a vegan myself.
I totally agree with you, it is a choice, and whether you follow vegetarian nutrition, one needs to look at the pros and cons and take consideration the combination needed. I know both and also the stress chemicals that are induced if the animals are not killed humanely for consumption, which also affect, but remember that there are pros and cons in everything. The nervous system is also affected badly on a pure vegan diet. Psychologically the person is also affected. Balance is the key to everything in life.
I am a third generation vegetarian, and hence naturally I followedtrained to be a vegetarian/alternative nutrition-nitritionist at first. I understand the health benefits and as well as limitations of vegetarian nutrition. I gave it all up, 8 years ago, when under long working hour and stressful conditions of working/study regime, I could not combine properly the essential elements that vegetarian nutrition lacks and needs proper planning and preperation, so at some stage I fell quite ill, and my doc placed me urgently on red meat diet, to recover quick. I have never gone back to vegetarianism, but I do balance food and eat mibrobiotic food when I can.
If it comes down to an argument, yes we were born with canine teeth and suited for both tearing meat and grind nuts etc.
In the large Sahara dessert where they cannot grow crops, their diets are consisted mostly of meat.
Our stomach's production of hydrochloric acid, is something not found in herbivores. HCL activates protein-splitting enzymes. Further, the human pancreas manufactures a full range of digestive enzymes to handle a wide variety of foods, both animal and vegetable.
When you get down to it, most animals, including humans, are naturally suited for eating other animals. It is clearly possible to have a healthy diet without any meat, but it's often a lot harder.
You need a very carefull combination of nutients to keep healthy, certain essential elements our body does not manufacture and need to find in foodstuff which pure vegetarian nutrition does not contain unless very carefully combined.
Cons
* A plant-based diet may lack some vitamins and minerals, unless a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are included in it.
* Vitamin B12, largely found in meat, is not present in a vegetarian diet. This vitamin is essential for converting protein, fats and carbohydrates into energy.
* A plant-based diet lacks Vitamin D, a very essential nutrient.
* According to diet experts, children raised as vegetarians will not get enough nutrients, especially iron, zinc, copper, Vitamin D & Vitamin B12.
* Finding a good source of protein in plant-based diet is difficult.
* Meat is a good source of essential amino acids. A plant-based diet cannot provide as much amino acids as found in non-veg.
* Each of the 9 essential amino acids is not found in vegetarian diets. Inadequacy of this may result in tiredness, moodiness - due to the fluctuation in blood sugar levels, lack of motivation and poor performance at work or during exercise.
* Vegetables and fruits are not best sources of iron and calcium. Moreover, most of the vegetarians have to take supplement to fulfill their daily requirements of both the minerals, unlike those who eat non-veg.
It was something that I read in the post of of the person which it encouraged me to place some views across, I had more a problem with sadistic aggression, which is denied, where as my comments were to bring some awareness there. It was all on another post but the author brought it over to this post. It is not a problem just placed my views and responded to the comments.
I respect how each person chooses to live, and their views, but when we are attacked and placed in a position where we are more or less called ignorant then it asks for more then that. I am not trying to prove anything, just replied to the comments.
Thank you for the addressing of the issue
The person commented that he likes comments and having an argument. That is what I did.
Warm regards
LITM
