Posted on 05/11/2011 6:47:43 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Periodically the Marxist-media drags out a gaggle of air-headed pseudo-“celebrities” and idiot doctors who extol the marvels of a vegan diet, a diet in which no animal products are consumed. Generally, such articles proclaim the wondrous health benefits and the ethical superiority of Veganism, without explaining its inherent dangers.
Well people a vegan diet is utter insanity. The human animal has extended canine teeth for a reason: it’s a requirement for us to eat meat in order to stay alive! Human animals must eat meat because we’d die without the vitamin B-12 obtained from eating animals or animal products. In nature, that’s the only way we can obtain B-12. Period.
Vitamin B-12 is far different than other vitamins. It’s a gigantic molecule that has a single atom of cobalt at its center, and in fact the chemical name for vitamin B-12 is cobalamin. In nature, vitamin B-12 is made only by bacteria, and it works its way up the food chain, starting somewhere along the line with bacterial symbiosis. Because only bacteria can capture cobalt from the environment and fix it in organic form, all living animals are dependent for their existence on cobalt-fixing bacteria.
Healthy adults who have eaten animal products all their life will have about a 10 year supply of B-12 stored in their liver. After that gets used up, say, while on a vegan diet or from pernicious anemia or other mal-absorption syndrome, they die.
Unfortunately, children don’t have this reserve, so feeding a child a vegan diet is criminal negligence since such a diet will lead to the child’s death from B-12 deficiency and is thus tantamount to murder. Period...
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Nothing wrong with being vegan if that’s what someone prefers, so long as they make sure to get enough protein in thier diet. Nothing wrong with meat in the diet either as long as one doesn’t go overboard and sticks to lean cuts. Personally, as someone who lifts wieghts 4 to 5 days a week I couldn’t get enough protein in my diet if I went vegan. I don’t like supplements and soy protein just doesn’t get it.
My SIL’s family was vegetarian, her middle daughter became malnutritioned.
I haven’t met a healthy vegetarian yet and I don’t even know a vegan.
Two words for Vegans, “POTATO FAMINE!”
I worked with one vegan and he was about as fat as I am and he tended to get sick more often. He said he was a vegan because it was healthier but he didn’t seem to be any healthier than I was then and am now.
Yes, that seems to be the norm. Of course their are 1 or 2 outliers. I couldn't imagine a Vegetarian Diet, let a lone a Vegan diet. I love steak and meat. If people want to eat that way, that's fine w/ me. Just don't give me condescending glances when I order a steak or hamburger, and you will get the same from me.
I hadn’t thought of it that way but most of them eat organic and many organic farms use manure, how funny, I guess I’ll have to mention that to them, just for information, you know not to taunt them or anything.
Yep. It’s a substitute religion. It’s how they expiate guilt without repentance from real sin. Makeup fake sins that are mitigated by self righteous behavior. Voila’- all is right with the world.
My former boss’ daughter was a vegan. She was also editor for Cornell’s paper, Turn Left. LOL
Salad is not food. Salad is what food EATS. :-)
“... middle daughter became malnourished”.
My friend’s daughter went through a vegetarian/vegan phase for about 18 months. Believe it or not, her pediatrician supported the idea. Even with vitamins and added protein, her hair started to fall out, her skin was constantly broken out and she looked horrible. She gave it up after 18 months and now looks fabulous.
My younger son (the architect) is vegetarian but also eats seafood, dairy and eggs. He's in pretty good shape; it doesn't appear to be harming him- yet.
My MIL became a vegan in early middle age. I have to say, I haven’t seen her sick in 10+ years.
She’s a libertarian/conservative too - so hasn’t turned veganism into a religion like some Leftists I know.
I forgot to mention, vegans would consider him an apostate!
Of course, some of my vegetables are pre-processed. :)
I remember a Thanksgiving dinner some years ago where the son of the daughter of my friend’s wife (got that?) remarked that he had read that people didn’t start eating meat until about ten thousand years ago due to a great worldwide shortage of food. I answered him by saying humans have teeth that have evolved for ripping into and eating meat. That couldn’t have happened in just ten thousands years time. He was a very nice young man, but he had been fed a diet of vegan, historical baloney.
In fact, that pretty well sums up my diet, with an occasional piece of steak. At 65, I am perfectly healthy, thank God.
Seafood is a vegetable?
Yummy, tasty, delicious murder...
I love being an omnivore. :-)
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