Vegetarian/Vegan/Carnivore

[BCO]

There's a pic of a billboard in the photos section advertising a steakhouse in the US:

"There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures....right next to the mash and roasted vegetables"

I eat meat and veggies. I don't have a chip on my shoulder about it like the majority of vegetarians. Eat your veggies...please. Just stop trying to convince the rest of us it's cruel because we don't share in your disgust of meat. You're starting to sound like ScienTo(m)logy Cruise.

Bit of a straw man there dude. Speaking for myself, I've not preached to anyone in this thread. I've only defended my choice against people saying it's unnatural or unhealthy.

@ Peder. I've already said in this thread that a low meat high plant diet is most likely the healthiest, hence, a human's omnivorous teeth reflect this. Humans evolved to eat mostly plants, with a bit of meat, and this can be seen in the shape of our teeth, our digestive system etc. Modern westerners eat far too much meat - a LOT more than our evolutionary ancestors ever did.

 

[Guest 20221009]

Going veggie will mean the end of the ZA lifestyle as we know it. So we gonna replace juicy braai (sorry if I am being too graphic) steaks with fresh and colourful carrot kebabs..

Watching The Proteas/Boks/Bafana/ over a simmering pot of peas..haha..sorry.

I hear all the "red meat is not good for you" stories and thats not enough to make me forsake meat

 

[BCO]

Interesting article on the health effects of diets high in red meat:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...9/03/23/AR2009032301626.html?hpid=topnews<br>

Some notable quotes:

"The uniqueness of this study is its size and length of follow-up," said Barry M. Popkin, a professor of global nutrition at the University of North Carolina, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. "This is a slam-dunk to say that, 'Yes, indeed, if people want to be healthy and live longer, consume less red and processed meat.' "

"You can be very healthy being a vegetarian, but you can be very healthy being a non-vegetarian if you keep your red-meat intake low," Willett said. "If you are eating meat twice a day and can cut back to once a day there's a big benefit. If you cut back to two or three times a week there's even more benefit. If you eliminate it entirely, there's a little more benefit, but the big benefit is getting away from everyday red-meat consumption."

In addition to the health benefits, a major reduction in the eating of red meat would probably have a host of other benefits to society, Popkin said: reducing water shortages and pollution, cutting energy consumption, and tamping down greenhouse gas emissions -- all of which are associated with large-scale livestock production.

"There's a big interplay between the global increase in animal food intake and the effects on climate change," he said. "If we cut by a few ounces a day our red-meat intake, we would have big impact on emissions and environmental degradation."