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We would like to ask you to vote. What is your opinion?
Should we keep eating meat or will we miss out on vital nutrients?
Here is a study to support the meat eaters side of things...
It argues we will miss valuable nutrients.
http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2012/01/whos-healthier-vegetarians-or-meat-eaters/
And here is a study for the vegan / vegetarian side:
This argues vegetarians have less cancer risk.
We will never tell you what to think. We prefer you come up with your own conclusions.
We would love you to express your views on this topic if you have a spare moment. (Comment below)
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I've been vegetarian for a year and it was the easiest change to make. Loads of people don't change because of the hassle but with the amount of vegetarian meals sold in supermarkets these days it's as easy as being a meat eater. Just make sure you have enough protein from other sources and you'll be fine :)
ReplyDeleteThe 'unhealthy' veggies you hear about that go pale, really thin or get the flu a lot are the ones that go veggie and start eating microwave meals only or just have the same food without the meat. That's a dumb thing to do. Seriously, it's so easy and there are so many benefits to it.
I totally agree with you, it is easy in London, because I've visited there, and stores like Tesco have quick vegetarian meals, at decent prices.
DeleteBut, when you live in America, especially in the Southern states, like I do, it's not as easy as that. It is so hard to find anything vegetarian. I'm sure in California, and a couple other states, it is easier. But, where I live, in Nashville, Tennessee, there are no quick meals that are veggie. :(
If you do want a quick "veggie" meal, it is deep-fried or cooked to death. Then if it is cooked, a lot of times they use ham-hocks (Part of a pig) to season the food with.
So, with that, we have to be pretty picky with what we get to eat, while out, and mostly eat at home.
Vegetarian all the way! I've been vegetarian for over 8 years, and I'm only 21. So I started when I was 12. With proper nutrition/vitamins, being a vegetarian feels so much better on my body. My body will never be a graveyard. I love all living beings and I don't believe that I should be able to take the life of something for food, when I can EASILY eat healthier & cruelty free options.
DeleteOh yeah, I forgot how much easier it is to be veggie in the EU. But I'm sure there are some ways to make it work even in places like Tennessee? Besides, if you have access to pasta, vegetables and fruits etc. can't you just whip up your own things and never eat out? :P
DeleteYep, exactly Tommy! We don't eat out, or if we do, it's very rare. We just take bars for snacks when we go out. But we go out A LOT, and can't just pop into stores and buy ready made meals. It sucks!
DeleteEveryone is different, and belief is a major factor in nutrient assimilation. It is documented that people live on no food or water for years. What you believe about your food is probably the most important factor in the fruition and assimilation of its benefits. Your wisdom is your health. Have passion about what you eat enough to know why it is good for you. Don't eat anything you think is not good for you. That is first. If you study what is in food, you will find many blessings and many poisons. Vegetarianism is more than a diet, it is a path of study. Without the study, it is someone else's diet, and you will not get the benefits of it.
ReplyDeletePlease watch the film "Forks Over Knives" based on the book "The China Study." It will educate us on why switching to a plant-based diet is our way to optimal health, free of disease.
ReplyDeleteWe won't miss key nutrients if we eat greens. It's really not that hard to get all your vitamins from leafy greens and seeds. The meat eaters are well programmed; they believe vegetarians are soft and weak but I am stronger and faster now that I've stopped eating meat. I go to the gym, I build muscle and I get my protein from vegetables and sometimes fish. Broccoli, spinach, kale, hemp seeds...all have healthy bunches of protein. Considering how our meat is produced these days, it's no wonder why there's so much cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes and early heart attacks. It's disgusting to me.
ReplyDeleteA balance of both but less towards the meat side. Today is my first day of a 3 day all veggie detox and I might go vegetarian after.
ReplyDeleteI'm a farmer eat my own home produced meat, & as much veggies as I can grow each season, I buy loccally grown organic if possible when my garden runs dry. Never going vegan, I strongly believe in being OMNIVORE! a balanced diet of both. However if I was buying my meat I'd probably be eating less of it, as I'm suspicious of large factory farming, & also of GMO's
ReplyDeletegood to hear that you don't buy processed meat and that you are trying to be sustainable. are you an organic farmer and do you know if all of your seeds are non GMO? i'm afraid it's becoming increasingly difficult to even find seeds that are not contaminated with GMO genes.
DeleteEverything in balance; and Greg Daugherty, I would like to see the source documentation that states "people live on no food or water for years."
ReplyDeleteThat is impossible people live on no food or water for years. you crazy!
DeleteVegetarian all the way! Have been one all my life :)
ReplyDeleteVego for 17 yrs now, raised 4 kids on vego diet. There is no planet B we must eat more sustainably. Eating meat only kills the planet & yourself quicker...
ReplyDeleteLacto-ovo-pesco vegetarian for 26 years now. Working just fine :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's necessary to quit meat all together for all mankind, but get some sense of proportions. The way the western world eat meat now, is crazy. Eat that nice steak once a week and enjoy a chicken once in a while, that's enough.
If you want to turn vegetarian, fine. It's a choice and the more people that do, the healthier our world will be and the less healthy crops will be fed to locked up animals on meat factories, to be enjoyed deepfried in GMO oil by unhealthy people.
I never at a lot of meat and when some study said a portion of 4 ounces of meat once a day was all you really needed, I actually tryed to eat a little more meat and found I felt better. To be honest I thought I ate plenty of cheese to make up for the lack of meat, but I mostly use it to flavor foods, Chicken and rice, mostly vegetable stews and of course pizza.
ReplyDeleteAbout 4 ounces a day is plenty for me. If I have a couple free range eggs along with it for a couple days (I use to not have a fridge at home) I can tell my fingernails grow faster. I'm already bald (mostly) so I can't speak to brittle hair, but a low protein diet may have some effect on my balding. I certainly don't have a problem with maintaining an unhealthy weight!
I did a long bicycle ride (7,000mi) and did make it a point to eat more meat/protein on the day before and rest days to aid in muscle repair.
As to sustainable issues, we have too much population to support now, without cheap oil, and the next 20 years will see some ugly changes, and inevitable conflicts with in the next 50 years, please think about these things when making choices about adding to the worlds population.
Vegan for life! You are what you eat, and I don't want to live on suffering and abuse.
ReplyDeleteIt's the natural order of life for animals to eat other animals. We're primates; omnivores and so it is natural to eat meat. People can be vegan/vegetarian if they want but not me!
ReplyDeleteOur bodies have evolved on animal meats and fats for millions of years. We also do not have the proper GI system to be a "plant-eating" animal. I've switched to a Paleo (caveman) diet which includes plenty of meat and vegetables. What we need to stop eating is dairy and grains. Watch "The Perfect Human Diet" by C.J. Hunt.
DeleteAlmost every argument, for or against vegetarian/veganism, is framed in each individual's personal experience. But just because something works for one person doesn't mean it works for everyone. I know lots of people who live very healthy lives as long-time vegans/vegetarians. However I know just as many who have had severe problems following a no-animal diet. I, myself was born and raised a vegetarian. As an adult, I ate healthy vegetarian fare, at times vegan and educated myself on getting enough plant-sourced protein. But despite my best efforts, by the age of 30, I was sick, exhausted and barely functional. I ate huge quantities of food, but never felt full or nourished and I was constantly tired. It wasn't until I started incorporating animal protein into my diet that I started to turn my health around. Still, 7 years later, I feel best on a paleo diet. Every body is different and has different dietary needs. It's important for each individual to tune into their body's innate wisdom in finding a diet that is right for them. And let others do the same.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone who's interested. A n excellent study started in China in 1983 and is still underway (I believe), with much bigger population sample and less complicating factors(homogeneous population, more standardized diet by region).The science shows clearly that we don't need meat also the high protein intake exacerbates create such problems as cancer/osteoporosis among others. The results have been published by the lead scientist T Colin Cambell, in a book called the China Study. Campbell starts out a confirmed meat eater and ends up a vegetarian. I think "further study required" only applies if you happen to work in meat production/sales. There is in fact no justification to eat meat, nutritional, ecological or moral. There have been so many dodgy practices exposed in commercial livestock rearing and the subsequent preparation of meat that my own opinion is that you simply cannot be confident about what's in the meat you eat unless it was an animal raised, killed and butchered by me.
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Man was not designed to eat meat in the first place. Second, all inflammations in the human bodies are related with consuming meat and meatproducts. Meat consuming makes human blood become thicker, causing heart problems and problems with a variety of other organs. Digestion of meat is nothing more than a rotting process of it inside the human body, and the only vital nutrients for our body can easily be found in other food products which are not meat related.
ReplyDeleteAn other issue for me is the industries that in fact poison humans by adding all kinds of chemicals to meat products, or even worse: to the live animals even before killing them for consumption. Nothing good here for humans, nothing good for animals, nothing good for Life!
So there it is for as far as I'm concerned: staying away from meat products.
And I'm healthier than ever before!
Being vegetarian makes sense on many levels: environmental, economic, healthy living, and humanitarian. So many issues we face could be solved with consuming less meat.
ReplyDeleteVegetarianism makes sense on so many levels: environmental, humanitarian, healthy living, sustainability, etc. We could solve so many issues that we face by just eating less meat as a species.
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