Originally posted by SkelettetS
Originally posted by DannyBoy2k
Not eating meat? Is a choice.
Eating meat? Is an INSTINCT!
well isnt it an instinct to club you fiancé and drag her to your cave too? i thought we had come past that instinct-thing.
and I dont call eating som stuff off a plate for instinct, sorry. whatever you eat it\'s for sure a choice.
note: and im NOT a rabiat ortodox militant vegge!
I actually lean more towards SkelettetS\' opinion.
Human society has always had its base food source coming from vegetables, fruit and whatever else we could find popping out of the ground. Meat has always been a complementary food source. When we really started to eat meat we set out to hunt once a year, (hopefully)gathering enough meat to last through the winter(since we couldn\'t store meat efficiently through the summer) and we still had our main food source coming from what sprouted from the ground. It wasn\'t until the middle ages that we actually began to view - and not until the industrialization we actually started to utilize - meat as a main food source. When our trading started to become more globalized and our means of storage became more efficient, -thats- when meat really became a main food source. This was just a few hundred years ago.
When it comes to instincts I think most of us, when we see an apple hanging from a tree or when we see a deer hopping in a field, react quite differently between the two.
We see the apple thinking: \"Mmm, apples...\"
We see the deer and we think; \"Oh, look! Pretty!\" And not until after that(If at all): \"Mmm, deer meat.\"
Making this comparison between the two when in the store isn\'t fair in my opinion since the store as we know it is roughly 100-150 years old.
To me that isn\'t enough time to develop any form of inherited instincts. On the other hand it is well enough time to make us lazy.
Built as we are we can still survive perfectly well on a diet from either family.
Having only vegetables, fruits and berries is a perfectly sound plate.
Same with meat. As long as you eat the -entire- animal. Of course, When I speak of \"meat\" food I do count dairy products, eggs and whatever else you can squeeze out from an animal.
Innards, brains and everything else on the list must go down if you are to lead a healthy life on just \"meat\" food.
There are extremely few prepared to do that in this day though, even most of those calling themselves anti-vegans hesitate when they find eyeballs, marrows or genitals on a plate.
And the fact that you can\'t build muscle without eating meat is a pure myth.
I totally love meat, there is nothing better than that first barbecued steak in the spring. But it would still not be even half as great without that potato salad and cheese...
There. /rant. Time for me to go find something really, really meaty to have for breakfast to make up for my semi anti-meat rant. lol
