Why Is The Elitist Establishment So Obsessed With Meat?

[DrJohnZoidberg]

ZeroHedge is one of the best news site on the Internet.

I suppose, depending on what your definition of "best" is.

Teen Vogue is probably the best news site for some people.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

But I'm guessing you would say CNN is a good news source, right?

I can play the deflection game too, although I'm not a fan.

 

[Stokstert]

Just don't come here with your Lewis Hamilton ideas what I should eat or not eat......rotten English vegan activist.

 

[dualmeister]

The word on the street is, meat based diets are going the way of the Dodo, and soon, by environmental necessity, we will ALL be vegetarians.

Tsek!

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I just don't understand why some people get so upset about what other people do with their lives. Do whatever works for you, it's none of my business.

 

[buka001]

Don't care. Nobody is going to stop me eating steak. Or other meats.

Do miss hunting after moving to the UK (sold all my rifles ) but managed to go pheasant shooting which was sort of OK.

 

[flippakitten]

 

[The Free Radical]

My family will NEVER EVER stop eating meat. Tsek jy!

 

[rietrot]

I suppose, depending on what your definition of "best" is.

Teen Vogue is probably the best news site for some people.

A good wide range of world news factually reported without an opinion trying to tell you what to think.

 

[Slootvreter]

ZeroHedge

LOL

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

My family will NEVER EVER stop eating meat. Tsek jy!

You don't know what you don't know eh. I'm assuming your family are all individuals with their own free will and you have not yet been assimilated into the Borg collective.

 

[Neuk_]

I eat meat, a large variety of meat but have no issues with those that choose to eat whether they be vegans, vegetarians, fruitarians, pescatarians, etc. I do have an issue with people trying to tell me that eating meat is a sin and bad for the planet especially when it is based on the the various 'documentaries' doing the rounds at the moment.

 

[Nod]

And then you have this:

The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers

How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Ancalagon]

They really are pushing it. Go to all of the mainstream news sites and you will see:
Vegetarian and vegan recipes
How meat is destroying the planet
Why you should not eat meat etc

These are now all very common articles. The truth is that meat is not bad for you, even if processed meat is. In fact, meat is extremely healthy for you.

It does make me wonder why there is such a concerted effort to push this. Maybe you can make more money selling vegan frankenfoods than a plain old steak?

 

[flippakitten]

They really are pushing it. Go to all of the mainstream news sites and you will see:
Vegetarian and vegan recipes
How meat is destroying the planet
Why you should not eat meat etc

These are now all very common articles. The truth is that meat is not bad for you, even if processed meat is. In fact, meat is extremely healthy for you.

It does make me wonder why there is such a concerted effort to push this. Maybe you can make more money selling vegan frankenfoods than a plain old steak?

What makes it worse is it's actually worse for the planet than simply reducing your meat intake.

It modeled the environmental impact of all major diets across some 140 countries and concludes that those who switch to a vegetarian diet may be doing more harm than good.

Here in the UK, the average healthy two-thirds vegan diet contributes the equivalent of 762.7 kg of Carbon Dioxide emissions (CO2e) per-person, compared with 1,265.2 kg for a vegetarian diet that includes dairy.

Eating some meat is better for the environment than going vegetarian, new study finds

A 'flexitarian' diet which includes one portion of meat a day has a lower carbon footprint than a vegetarian diet that includes dairy, according to a major new study.

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Emjay]

 

[SaiyanZ]

Sorry Vegans: Here's How Meat-Eating Made Us Human

If you want a big brain, you'll need more than vegetables

time.com

You see it in Nine Reasons Your Canine Teeth Don’t Make You a Meat-Eater; in PETA’s Yes, It’s True: Humans Aren’t Meant to Eat Meat; in Shattering the Myth: Humans Are Natural Vegetarians. (Google “humans aren’t supposed to eat meat” and have at it.)

But sorry, it just ain’t so. As a new study in Nature makes clear, not only did processing and eating meat come naturally to humans, it’s entirely possible that without an early diet that included generous amounts of animal protein, we wouldn’t even have become human—at least not the modern, verbal, intelligent humans we are.

None of that, of course, means that increased meat consumption—or any meat consumption at all—is necessary for the proto-humans’ 21st century descendants. The modern pleasures of a grilled steak or a BLT may well be trumped by the health and environmental benefits of going vegan—and if the animals got a vote, they’d surely agree. But saying no to meat today does not mean that your genes and your history don’t continue to give it a loud and rousing yes.

Who knows how much of our gene pool will be chipped away/lost in future if we stop eating meat as a species or where we could be if we continue to consume meat.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

They really are pushing it. Go to all of the mainstream news sites and you will see:
Vegetarian and vegan recipes
How meat is destroying the planet
Why you should not eat meat etc

These are now all very common articles. The truth is that meat is not bad for you, even if processed meat is. In fact, meat is extremely healthy for you.

It does make me wonder why there is such a concerted effort to push this. Maybe you can make more money selling vegan frankenfoods than a plain old steak?

It's not that meat is bad for you, it's that the farming for an ever growing population is going to become unsustainable (and probably already is in some places).

 

[SlinkyMike]

LO! Zero Hedge. Puh-leeze!

Also: WTF is "the elitist establishment"??

You sound like a nut. Probably because of your poor choice ins news sources.

It's because our big brains evolved when we ate a lot of meat which has much more protein than plants. Vegans want the species to devolve.

Who knows how much of our gene pool will be chipped away/lost in future if we stop eating meat as a species or where we could be if we continue to consume meat.

That big brain evolution must have skipped you because you clearly don't understand how evolution works.

 

[saor]

It's because our big brains evolved when we ate a lot of meat which has much more protein than plants. Vegans want the species to devolve.

I'm guessing our ancestors weren't eating meat 2 / 3 times a day 7 days a week like a lot of SA'icans do. I don't think these 'meat free mondays' movements etc. were to create vegetarians, but rather to cut down on the amount of meat consumption and suffering we impose on the animals we farm.