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231 sats \ 25 comments \ @Golu 5h food_and_drinks

Debates over the proper human diet tend to get heated quickly, especially when it comes to eating meat. You may hear arguments that humans either are or aren’t supposed to eat meat based on various evolutionary, biological, or ethical considerations.

Depending on whom you ask and what life experiences they’ve had, you could get an answer that ranges from fairly overarching to extremely personal.

Read it here https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-humans-supposed-to-eat-meat

Then it made me think there are obvious reasons to debate for humans about eating meat. Humans actually have the teeth that make them able to tear and chew both.

Also, I learnt that people all around the world eat turkey on Thanksgiving. I'm not putting this question for moral or ethical answers, u would rather want to hear health benifits that meat can provide.

I don't eat meat but I eat eggs and dairy products. I don't hate or be fyi fyi when someone eats meat before me.

So, guys why do you think humanity needs to eat meat? Is it really necessary? Why do you eat meat?

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35 sats \ 4 replies \ @TheMorningStar 4h

I'm not against eating meat but I can't eat it now. I also think that many people like me don't eat because of religious obligations. There's nothing wrong in it because vegetarianism can fulfill all your health needs.

205 sats \ 3 replies \ @Imyourfed 4h

Research Shows Vegan Diet Leads to Nutritional Deficiencies, Health Problems; Plant-Forward Omnivorous Whole Foods Diet Is Healthier https://www.saintlukeskc.org/about/news/research-shows-vegan-diet-leads-nutritional-deficiencies-health-problems-plant-forward

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 4h

You guys challenge the benefits of Ayurveda but adopt Yoga. A vegetarian diet is enough, has been enough for ages. You can come to India and DYOR.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 21m

I'm sure that in within 25 years feeding kids vegan diets will be considered child abuse. Humans are omnivores. No cultures are vegan; hardly any are vegetarian.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Imyourfed 9m

I'm sure that in within 25 years feeding kids vegan diets will be considered child abuse. Humans are omnivores. No cultures are vegan; hardly any are vegetarian.

Exactly! It's cruel to intentionally keep children weak and make them suffer. As @TheMorningStar pointed out:

You guys challenge the benefits of Ayurveda but adopt Yoga. A vegetarian diet is enough, has been enough for ages. You can come to India and DYOR.

Here’s an article for reference: https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/india-meat-map-people-relish-non-vegetarian-items-east-south-lead-way-1878313-2021-11-18

It states that 70% of Indians eat meat, so how can India still be labeled a vegetarian nation?

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @sophostheliberator 3h

Great questions, to which I have also pondered a bit as I was vegetarian in 2017-2023 for 5,5 years and have gone back to eating meat again.

So does humanity “need” to eat meat, the simple answer is no, to survive we don’t. But this then pegs another question, to live life to our fullest potential then the answer might be different. To get most of our bodies and minds, there are certain meats that are of high nutritional value for us.

Most modern societies today consume meat in one form of another. One of the biggest vegetarian oriented cultures is India. Where there are at least 20 % of the population vegetarians. [1]

So why do I eat meat? First I gravitated towards vegetarianism as a form of spiritual and mental cleansing. Two triggers for me were in 2017 the raising of environmental concerns and most importantly the spiritual book Bhagavad Gita. Overall as I reflect the experience I have to come to a few conclusions:

Diet should be a health choice, and you should prioritize health in decision making, not to worry about the environment at this stage. Besides, hurrying and forcing does not lead to good decision making anyway.
Evaluate “new research” slowly and critically. In terms of health and food, there is so much contradictory research, recommendations presented to you my all kinds of influencer groups that it is easy to find recommendations for each day. If you need to read research, seek neutral and time tested evidence, not from the headlines of news or latest government recommendations. 3.Do your own research. As you find new information to apply to your life and health seek ways to confirm if the claims are right and true. Also start the experiments in your own life small, without great commitment to it. If it is something worthwhile, you can always continue and if not, discontinue.
Give weight to tradition and common sense that has proven itself healthy. By tradition I mean your roots and the roots of civilization. I understand that not everyone has touch with their roots, or they have grown up in an urban environment where the tradition is to eat some fast food. What I mean by tradition is that for example here in Finland my parents and many older people pick up blueberries, lingonberries and mushrooms from the forests for example and store them for the winter. Or there are simple dietary preferences such as butter and rye bread that they prefer even though modern research attacks butter, butter is an example where you can do your own research. Put a slice of butter and vegetable oil based margarine outside for few days and see what happens, living things prefer butter because it is necessary for the brain and life, while they neglect vegetable oil based margarine because it does not provide much nutritional value or may even be harmful.

And based on these conclusions I decided to start eating meat again as I started to exercise more like hitting three times a week gym and two times a week running exercise. I have found that now I am in the best shape of my life. So each one of us has to make choices for ourselves.

Sources [1] Vegetarianism by country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 2h

Well said.

107 sats \ 0 replies \ @jawsh 4h

Because it's good. Protein is needed and meat is a source of protein humans have evolved to consume as omnivores. Factory farming is admittedly a cruel way for animals to live but is basically needed due to the overpopulation of humanity.

19 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 5h

I like the taste.

Living in Korea, it would be hard to completely cut it out, if I wanted to (I don't want to).

Complex problems require complex solutions. Completely cutting out meat (if you think that would be useful for the climate) or eating only meat (if you think that's the way to be healthy) are both too simple and too extreme solutions to complex problems.

14 sats \ 0 replies \ @Imyourfed 5h

Totally agree. Going to extremes just doesn’t make sense for something so complex. Balance is definitely the way to go.

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 4h

Humans evolved to be omnivores. I think eating meat is part of a balanced diet and it is tasty.

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 5h

I think we need to eat meat to stay healthy. Our digestive system is adapted to handle both meat, grains and greens. There are some proteins that are not available other wise. There are people who are only carnivores that don’t eat anything but meat.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 38m

How can people kill to eat so much plants, so evil and cruel

And they still digest the bacteria needed to break down the cellulose, so, technically, everyone is carnivore. check mate vegans ;)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 1h

I suppose, I really do not like limiting myself. Around me there are consdescending voices telling me what I should do, according to them.

I eat meat for nutritional purposes, similarly, I eat vegetables for nutritional purposes. They are both sources of nutrition.

If you want to get into the sentience issue, that is another issue. I don't always eat meat, but nutrition is important, so at times, I eat meat. Other times I don't.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 1h

Honestly, because it is delicious and makes me feel full. I do eat vegetarian dishes sometimes but maybe because I feel hungry, I find that I need to consume something else after a short while.

But honestly, because meat is delicious haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 1h

Killing and butchering an animal is a sobering experience. There is a need for respect for all animals and sadly the way most meat is farmed today is not respectful. I would go as far as to suggest that eating factory farmed mammals could be endangering your own health. But fresh healthy best of all wild caught meat has to be a healthy part of any humans diet. Try to support healthy farming systems and avoid overly exploitative ones if you can. Best of all, if possible, farm and/or harvest from the wild.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dickiegreenlead 2h

I am a meat eater, but I think cheaply produced meat shouldn't be legal. I also think that it should be part of the curriculum to show/experience first hand how meat is produced, meaning how it is slaughtered, so people get a grasp of what is lying in front of them on the platter.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PoolcleanerSteve 2h

Meat is food. Plants are not food. Justmeat.co Whycarnivore.com

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @C_Otto 2h

I don't.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 3h

Vegans always look sick.

7 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinPilgrim 2h

As vegetarians, my family didn't get sick as often as the meat eaters at our community school.

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 2h

That's fantastic but of all the vegans I have known they all always looked sick/pale.

Have great respect for people who chose not to eat meat but it just looks like they are not healthy.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @C_Otto 2h

Do I?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 2h

I cannot see you but all the vegans I have known have looked unwell, pale and sickly.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 3h freebie

DE LISH IOUS .

And not just my opinion. My 6 year old so devours foods he loves. For a well-seasoned and prepared piece of meat, as he eats, he moans.