Ran across this:



Here's the daughter:



Not very appealing!



This is not a sustainable diet plan. It's NOT popular. It's dangerous, as we see every single year when someone damages their infant with a vegan "diet."



But you can see the author is STILL convinced that we should stop eating so much meat. When the fact is we should ban factory farms.

I support the pricey local farms who raise humanely because THIS is the answer: small, local, fresh, not mass-produced.

Some friends of ours and their big pot of beans and rice are so sick it's sad. Thyroid cancer, prostate issues, pancreas issues etc....They're so brainwashed that beans are better for you then meat, it's sad.

I've put the LC bug in her ear and she is listening about bread. At one time she told me she is addicted to sugar and in the middle of the night she would have an uncontrollable urge to have sugar that at one point she could only find pancake syrup and got up to drink some, then went back to bed.

I can only imagine the swings up and down of their blood sugar.
She told me yesterday she's been eating a lot of sandwiches because that's what he has been making.

I think it's like a bad slow motion documentary of malnutrition, cancer and the organs that begin to fail as a result.

My prediction is that legume proteins will be found to trigger intolerances, allergies and possibly autoimmune diseases like Rheumatoid Arthritis and MS. They certainly cause me inflammation, joint pain & problems with dexterity that disappear when I avoid them.

I personally gave up vegetarianism because the internet came into existence and I was then able to easily find accurate health information. Realized what I was doing wasn't in my best health interests after all (hello diabetes!) and shifted to low carb with return to animal foods. I'm much healthier now.

It's all been a marketing plan to sell livestock feed to us for human consumption.
Hummus, Black beans, Polenta (aka corn/grits), Couscous, big starchy russet potatoes (aka hog food), and all "heart healthy".
If I've heard and read that phrase once I've read it 10,000 times in the past 15 years.
It's all been a scam by big AG which overlaps with food processors now.

Yes a zillion times.

I became a vegetarian when Dr Dean Ornish came out with his book, Eat More Weigh Less. I was fully immersed in a lacto-ovo lifestyle. (I ate dairy products and eggs.) I did it to lose weight. It didn't work. I stayed the same for a long time, then I gained weight.

So, after 10 years, I started to eat meat again. Then I found low carb and discovered how well it worked for me. I had phenomenal success in 2005-6, but had to have major surgery and experienced complications. Fell off the wagon. I am back and doing well, doing low carb for one year now and well on my way to goal.

THAT guy. Don't like him. Been tooting his own horn without good science. Or, as one low carb columnist once said, "Be sure to stay upwind of an Ornish fan."

I figure it this way:

1. I have the teeth of an omnivore - tearing teeth for meat and grinding teeth for plants
2. I have the digestive enzymes of an omnivore - some for digesting meat protein others for vegetable matter
3. I do not have the digestive system of a herbivore. Cows and other ruminants have multiple stomachs, horses have a "mile long" alimentary canal, rabbits and others eat their own feces - all this to get enough nutrition from plants. I have one stomach, a moderate alimentary canal and am certainly not going to eat my own feces

Therefore I am going to honor my own body and be an omnivore like mother nature intended me to be.

Also....

Choline is necessary for your brain. Several sources point out that veggie sources of choline are difficult to digest and to put it mildly, a vegan diet will starve your brain of an essential brain nutrient:

From The Telegraph:

From Medical News Today:

From the US National Institute of Health (Pub Med)
And so on and so forth.

IMHO anyone who pursues a vegan diet is likely to have compromised health and compromised brain function.

You have the body of an omnivore, feed it what it is designed for.

Cows eat cow food, rabbits eat rabbit food, tigers eat tiger food and humans are supposed to eat human food.

Bob

A neice has gone vegan/vegetarian. She is a gym teacher.

And then there’s Spartacus.

There is a lot of veggie/meatless propaganda out there right now, and so many people just follow the herd, believe what they hear, and don't take the time to think for themselves or investigate for themselves.

Bob

Epicurus

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquility.

I'm not profiling but I can predict a vegetarian sighting a mile away! LOLOL