ThirdStone is not an idiot-

Here is an article you should read and think critically about before you call other people idiots. I doubt you have looked into both sides of information.

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating
by Milton R. Mills, M.D.

http://connect.krishna.com/node/169

Since you said, “get a life” you are probably in your mid 30s to early 50s. Good thing you are not a student coming to conclusions so quickly – imagine a college education without possessing critical thinking !

It never occurred to early Homo Sapiens to eat flesh; their bodies (and ours) were never designed for it. Then (as now) we have no teeth designed for tearing flesh like ALL other carnivorous/omnivorous animals do. They didn’t even have fire to cook it with or the “tools” to deal with it.

Even better evidence is our long and convoluted digestive tract. In true carnivores like cats, it is as short as possible and designed to extract nutrition quickly and expel flesh byproducts as quickly as possible to protect the system. Dogs which are more omnivorous, have somewhat longer paths to help them deal with both flesh and other food substances. Herbivores (cows, humans, pigs etc) have long and complex digestive tracts to process foods other than flesh, the longer pathway being needed to breakdown other nutritive substances and conversely suffers from the prolonged exposure to toxic flesh byproducts.

Our basic physiology is clearly not designed to consume flesh in any form – it merely tolerates it to varying degrees. As humans evolved over time, a small degree of flesh eating became an adaptation over time as a survival means as humans moved to spread across the continents and had to deal with climate & environmental changes (moving close to desert areas, the ice ages, etc).

Look at most of the world’s cultures and nearly all cultures have consumed flesh in very small amounts and never until recent times, in today’s larger quantities. The good old USA really cranked up the flesh eating quota in the last century to absurd (and dangerous) levels and our modern health crisis does reflect that in all sorts of pathologies beyond just the “major” ones such as heart disease, diabetes,obesity, colon cancer); there’s no denying it.

Go ahead and eat flesh if you like it but then be willing to accept the health consequences too -just quit all the sniping; eating flesh is bad for our health and our bodies were NOT designed to ingest it.

The other issues of animal cruelty, the environmental and climate change consequences of large scale animal ag, transport, processing etc. are real and undeniable concerns too of course, so let’s stop denying them please.

But let us also recognize the facts of our own physiology; that IS the main issue. Nature has always done a good job of designing ALL its creatures efficiently and correctly. Like it or not, that includes us humans.

Silly arguments about “needing” to eat flesh to survive are just rationale. It’s simply not true. Our species would NOT have survived were that the case.

If nature intended us to eat flesh, our bodies would be designed to thrive on it. Argue all you want but, they’re simply NOT. We “choose” to do so in spite of that. And, we pay the health consequences accordingly.

Heavy meat consumption has been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and even cancer. Look it up. Not only that, but meat production causes devastating effects on the environment, releasing more greenhouse gases into the air every year than every car, truck, train, and airplane combined.

For Granholm to ask us not to eat meat for ONE whole day out of our lives is not something that anyone should be up in arms about. Not only will it benefit your body, but it will help out the environment, and is an ethical option not only for the sake of the animals, but also for the workers that work in the slaughterhouses where the meat is produced.

Of course the people working for the meat industry are going to be pissed, it could potentially cut into their profits. Don’t let them fool you though, and don’t be pissed at Granholm. First of all, she didn’t make it illegal to eat meat, you are free to put whatever you want into your body. Not eating meat can and will do wonders for your body, the facts are out there. It’s your choice, and no matter what you choose, neither choice makes you a bad person, so don’t take this post that way.

Personally, I limit my meat consumption to 1 to 2 times a week and consume legumes(beans), nuts, and whole wheat pasta as my main sources of protein. My cholesterol, my wife’s cholesterol dropped once we started eating this way.

If the governor said meat is poison, avoid it at all costs, I can understand why the farmers would be upset. She gave the same sensible advice I provide to my 3,000 patients.