DISQUS

Kyle Brady · 11 months ago

And in this letter, did PETA mention that being a vegetarian is so unnatural that they have to take supplements and eat constructed foods (like soy milk) in order to just stay alive? Because you know that thing called "protein"?

You don't get it from eating broccoli 8x a day.

--Kyle

jrrrl · 11 months ago

Um, that's completely not true. Vegetarians get plenty of protein without supplements, from normal foods like beans, grains, etc. You don't need to drink soy milk any more than you need to drink cow milk (which is also completely unnatural for humans). Many meat eaters drink soy milk because it tastes better to them and is healthier. The only special supplement recommended for non-meat eaters is B12 for vegans, because there are only a handful of vegan sources. Non-vegan vegetarians get plenty.

It's a good idea for everyone to take a nutritional supplement, but without one, meat eaters on average have seven major nutritional deficiencies (calcium, iodine, vitamin C, vitamin E, fiber, folate, and magnesium) while vegans on average only have three (calcium, iodine, and B12).

Large populations of people are strictly vegetarian and there are no health problems. 40% of the country of India is completely vegetarian -- they have health problems due to poverty, but not because they're vegetarian. Strictly vegetarian religious groups like Seventh Day Adventists in California have been studied and they live 5-7 years longer than similar groups of meat eaters. It's been well-studied and well-proven that eating meat raises your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and several cancers like stomach, colon, and breast cancer.

Eating meat is the new smoking, and even if you cling to meat for your entire life, your children probably won't.

MonickerL · 11 months ago

I'm sorry but anybody who denies that humans are built to be omnivorous, and turns a blind eye to the evidence that we've adapted into being such from our herbivore ancestors, is fooling themselves.

Yes, meat can cause problems for you, but so can a vegetarian/vegan diet if you don't moderate. If we just stopped stuffing our fat faces every waking moment, we'd be fine. With our meat, thank you very much.

jrrrl · 11 months ago

Humans have adapted to a lot of things -- including astronomical rates of death during childbirth and lifespans into your 40's if you're lucky. Evolution isn't destiny. All modern medicine and nutrition is "unnatural." A vegetarian diet makes you healthier, and does not cause problems except for the aforementioned B12 issue with vegans who don't eat the handful of natural sources.

Evolution also didn't take into account global warming, for which eating meat (livestock specifically) is the #1 human cause.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20...

Kyle Brady · 11 months ago

Glad to see you figured out how to use the 'reply' button.

"Evolution also didn't take into account global warming, for which eating meat (livestock specifically) is the #1 human cause. "

I'm glad you're ignorant. Because that frees me from responding to your original nonsense.

--Kyle

jrrrl · 11 months ago

I provided the link to the UN study that says livestock is the #1 human-related cause of global warming. The United Nations is more ignorant than yourself? If you'd like to read the entire study and results (which I doubt, since you don't seem to be very intellectually curious), see below:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

Kyle Brady · 11 months ago

No the quote was me laughing at you.

And the ignorance reference was just to you and your comments in general.

I'm not "intellectually curious"? Well, I'm glad you have come to yet another amazingly perfect and correct conclusion.

Maybe you should get your IQ tested... I'm betting you're MENSA quality.

--Kyle

jrrrl · 11 months ago

Um, okay? Do I pal around with terrorists too?

Kyle Brady · 11 months ago

You are so full of WIN.

*end my caring about you and this thread*

--Kyle

jrrrl · 11 months ago

Cool, thanks! ^_^

Anthonyga · 11 months ago

"40% of the country of India is completely vegetarian -- they have health problems due to poverty, but not because they're vegetarian."

Sounds like we should ask BlueCross BlueShield to raise premiums on the poor.

jrrrl · 11 months ago

Men live 6 years shorter than women and have more chronic diseases. Meat-eating men live 11-13 years shorter than vegetarian women! We really need to stop these communist subsidies on meat-eating men.

George Yeo · 11 months ago

I would like to think that those insurance companies that go ahead with this suggestion will go bankrupt instead. And I know of vegetarians who live healthy lifestyles, one of them even a bodybuilder.

Internet Marketing · 11 months ago

Nothing wrong if you're eating meat. Just don't eat that kind of losing great animal meat. that' all

Dan · 8 months ago

And of course... Blue Cross and Blue Shield can OBVIOUSLY monitor people's dieting habits for no cost at all! No need to sift through millions of pieces of paperwork to make adjustments, no need to change methods of documentation and archiving data to find out things, no need to pay for auditors to make sure people are reporting honestly, it's all for free! FREE! Ahahahaha... sure PETA, sure, only if you guys pay for the invasion of privacy needed to pull this stunt off.