Posted on 12/06/2015 6:28:07 PM PST by PROCON
Have you heard the one about how you can tell someone is a vegan? Answer: Because they'll f****** tell you. Sounds about right. Meanwhile: why should you eat meat? Don't just answer with the obvious and self-evident truth: Because it really tastes great,especially grilled!
Turns out eating meat may be essential for your mental health. From Women's Health Magazine (just to show there's no limit to Power Line's efforts to bring you all the important news you can use):
Scary Mental Health Risks of Going Meatless
By Jill Waldbieser
More and more women are vegging out...of their minds. New research suggests that along with shedding pounds, slashing cancer risk, and boosting life expectancy, vegetarianism could come with lesser-known side effects: Panic attacks. OCD. Depression. . .
It's tough to argue with the science and with a movement that's been endorsed by everyone from Gandhi to Beyonce. And it's natural to assume that peak mental health and a perpetually blissed-out attitude are just two more side effects of the glowing vegetarian lifestyle.
So it was startling last year when Australian researchers revealed that vegetarians reported being less optimistic about the future than meat eaters. What's more, they were 18 percent more likely to report depression and 28 percent more likely to suffer panic attacks and anxiety. A separate German study backs this up, finding that vegetarians were 15 percent more prone to depressive conditions and twice as likely to suffer anxiety disorders.
This explains a lot in my experience. Meanwhile, glad I'm planning my usual Saturday fare of grilled steak. And heart medicine red wine. You can't be too careful about your mental health.
I use it to avoid Iron Poor Blood...and the embarrassment of having to buy Geritol.
I like meat just fine, but the stats in this study may simply suggest that people who already have these traits chooss veganism rather than the other way around. Corelation does not always mean cause.
I just polished off a plate of liver and onions.
yummy!
Yea but why take that chance?
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
Excellent point. I crave meat dishes, and won't go vegetarian.
If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
Or the mentally ill are more attracted to the vegetarian/vegan movement to cure their bodies and minds, as well as the hype that the planet is dying but going vegan helps Mother Earth.
95% of women are born psychotic.
The other 5% die of birth defects
if we weren't meant to eat meat, we'd have the same teeth cows have...
Oh, thats good, I will repeat that.
What I thought exactly. We don’t know there’s causation to go with that correlation, and if there is, in which direction.
One of my favorite quotes!
The other 5% die of birth defects
Yeah, I had an ex-wife like that...PSYCHOTIC!
Looks tasty! That said, after my cancer diagnosis I’ve become vegan. My husband, to support me, has become vegetarian. The only reason he didn’t go vegan is because of his body building hobby. Vegan protein powder is much more expensive than whey! That stated, all of my tests have been clear (praise God) and hubby has noticed a significant energy increase. We still feed the kids some meat, mostly venison. In fact, this vegan and her vegetarian husband just processed about 30 pounds of deer meat!
With these studies, there are always exceptions.
This was just a fun thread I posted to get away from the politics of the day.
Human devolution:
Turning vegetarian, takin statin drugs - brain shrinks.
Brain shrinks - people turn stupid, become liberals.
Liberals go into government - screw the country.
Stay with meat and tequila.
the tequila must be to deaden the pain caused buy stupid vegan liberals telling you to become a vegan
I remember an archaeology study finding that nearly as soon as you had grain consumption, you had alcohol.
And a discussion on how backbreaking work to store grain wasn’t worth the effort to draw a lot of hunter-gatherers to settle down, but beer and alcohol might make the settled life an attraction - drunkenness on demand instead of the rare time you find fermented fruit.
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