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1 posted on 11/25/2012 12:20:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Like I keep telling vegetarians and vegans, we didn’t kill our way to the top of the food chain only to eat a few leaves.

If we weren’t able to digest it, we would’ve found that out a long time ago.

If we couldn’t chew it, we’d either eat it as a paste, or not at all.

They’ll never understand it.


2 posted on 11/25/2012 1:23:16 AM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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“The answer, it seems, is the gorillas’ raw, vegan diet (devoid of animal protein), which requires hours upon hours of eating only plants to provide enough calories to support their mass.”

Naw. gorillas don’t need big brains since all they think about is how lousy those plants and leaves taste and where they can get a double bacon cheese burger.


5 posted on 11/25/2012 2:00:59 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Oh well. Thought I would be seeing an actual full-hearted tell-off to the vegans out of MSDNC. Instead, I see evolutionary nonsense mixed in about gorillas and whatnot. (Chimps hunt animals for food, but it doesn’t put their intelligence at human level.) If I were in the article author’s place, I’d have the flame-retardant suit on before the libs remind him that gorillas are eight times stronger than Olympic weightlifters, on average . . . (ain’t got a thing to do with diet)


6 posted on 11/25/2012 2:30:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
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The author manages to contradict himself with the final statemenst about there being many good reasons to go vegetarian or vegan when he just wrote a great expose detailing why going vegan or vegetarian would have made us all puny idiots. If going v and v would have made us inferior now, it will then make us inferior in the future. Moral of the story: to stay strong and smart, eat meat.


11 posted on 11/25/2012 3:14:50 AM PST by driftless2
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high grade animal protein increased our brain power and gave us time away from dumb grazing animals, to increase our intellect and ponder our next moves...which developed into science and art.


13 posted on 11/25/2012 3:42:09 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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The girl I know who was a real vegan/environmentalist looked totally emmaciated and was screwed up in the head, too.

I think that's the problem in the schools, too. These kids need REAL protein....eggs, meat and dairy. Stop the rabbit diet.

14 posted on 11/25/2012 3:51:27 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Almost all mammalian herbivores have gut specializations and flora that allow them to kinda retain and “ferment” their foods.

No such items in humans.

Actually, human “pass through” time is more like carnivores, who digest and pass through their foods quickly.


23 posted on 11/25/2012 5:28:17 AM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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This certainly explains why vegans are always narrow minded small brain people.


25 posted on 11/25/2012 6:07:28 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Children, pets, and slaves get taken care of. Free Men take care of themselves.)
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Xlent web page showing info about diet, digestion, etc.
http://www.raising-rabbits.com/carnivore-digestive-system.html


28 posted on 11/25/2012 6:23:54 AM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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The cow ate the grass.

I ate the steak.

There is symmetry.


31 posted on 11/25/2012 6:45:03 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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And alcohol focused that brainpower into civilization, and provided sterilized water to drink.

Fermentation required a basic scientific and manufacturing process. Alcohol killed off all the nasties living in most water.

Here’s to steak and beer!


32 posted on 11/25/2012 6:52:11 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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And alcohol focused that brainpower into civilization, and provided sterilized water to drink.

Fermentation required a basic scientific and manufacturing process. Alcohol killed off all the nasties living in most water.

Here’s to steak and beer!


33 posted on 11/25/2012 6:52:14 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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tell the weed eaters to file down their canine teeth so they can be more like their cud chewing idols...
34 posted on 11/25/2012 6:55:27 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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I'm an omnivore...always have been,always will be.I've always loved fruits,vegetables and grains.Absolutely love them.And I've also always loved beef,chicken,lamb,pork,eggs and milk.

Human beings were designed by God (or by "Mother Nature",for all you atheists) to be omnivores.Anyone needing proof should ask any dentist.

36 posted on 11/25/2012 7:08:21 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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Kiddo's college room mates are vegan. But, but they take supplements!!! Uh, hellooo, if they have to take a supplement then something is seriously lacking in their diet.
38 posted on 11/25/2012 7:51:34 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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Not too long ago, a scientist studying nutrition was puzzled, because he wanted to know the nutritional difference between raw and cooked food, and couldn’t find any research about it.

Then he discovered that when calories of food were determined with an elaborate device called a calorimeter, which determines calories by incinerating food, no distinction was made between raw and cooked food.

He knew that digestion can only get a fraction of the nutrition from raw food compared to cooked food, so there should be a huge difference in “available calories”.

To check this out, he studied people who were on a raw food only diet, and discovered that even if they ate considerably more raw food calories, almost every one had at least some form of malnutrition.

The implications of this are that the calorie tables put on food are wildly inaccurate, and need significant adjustment. Proteins, fats, carbohydrates and their subset sugars, as well as vitamins and minerals, are all very different from what they are alleged to be.

However, it is not easy to tell how much nutrition is obtained from food, and how high up in the digestive tract. But until this is done, nutritional labels on food are wrong.


39 posted on 11/25/2012 7:52:05 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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***Vegetarian, vegan and raw diets can be healthy — likely far healthier than the typical American diet.***

I know a woman who has never eaten meat. She is a health basketcase. Thin as a rail, constantly sick, Tries to live a “naural” life. Needs to smoke “medical marijuana” to ease her pains. Seventh Day Adventist. Nuff said.


40 posted on 11/25/2012 8:01:44 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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Vegan. Never met one that didn’t have serious medical issues they didn’t dismiss as having nothing to do with being idiots. They are usually in very poor health.


45 posted on 11/25/2012 8:45:10 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Rom. 14:2.


50 posted on 11/25/2012 10:41:26 AM PST by fish hawk
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