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Man...I would straight destroy that especially with some hot sauce on it
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Simply because we have immune systems doesn't necessarily make us "killing machines." Herbivores possess active immune systems; I don't think many people would consider sheep, for example, to be "killing machines."Originally Posted by Method Man
I wanted to be a vegetarian but I really thought about it. Humans are killing machines. It is on auto-pilot. Our bodies kill anything that are foreign . I eat beef, chicken, fish & pork but I don't kill an animal (bugs & insects) unless it is in my house.
Originally Posted by DAYTONA 5000
I'm trying to stop eating meat
You do realize that because of COOKED meat our brains developed as quickly as it did right? I can pull up some NY times/Nation Geographic article up on that or you can look for it yourself.
Again, I think there's a distinction to be made between correlation and causation. Obviously there are other factors that favored humans withlarger brains, the increasing importance of social organization being one. Beyond that, you need to look at changes in the environment. Red deer in Scotlandhave been observed biting the heads off of birds due, it's suggested, to mineral deficiency. Chimpanzees have begun killing infant colobus monkeys. Competition for increasingly scarce resources engenders this sort of adaptation, and the human diet has been nothing if not adaptive. Whereas a deer or achimpanzee can't simply run out to the grocery store, we can. It is a reflection of our privilege that we don't have to say, "If I don't killsomething and eat its flesh, I'm going to die." Our ancestors weren't always so fortunate, nor are manyof our contemporaries around the world.
The point I'm trying to make is that eating animal products is not necessary for healthy function, that our bodiesare quite compatible with herbivorous diets and that we, as a species, have been eating plants far longer than we've been eating meat. This isn't tosay that it's easy to do so, that you don't have to change your behavior to do so - because that's simplynot true. It's been normative to eat similarly to carnivores in that we'll just settle in for one or two big feasts each day and store that ratherthan to eat smaller meals fairly persistently throughout the day, as a forager would. There's a certain efficiency to eating meat that offers convenience,but today we have all the resources we need to live healthy, active lifestyles without ingesting meat if we so choose.
It's a choice everyone should make for themselves, but the problem we so often find is that vegetarianism tends to be marginalized, ridiculed, ordiscredited when, in truth, such diets can be far healthier than what's considered normative in this society.
Its hard my man. My mom cooked mad steak today too. And I'm sitting over here with hunger pangsOriginally Posted by 23Jordancollector
Originally Posted by DAYTONA 5000
I'm trying to stop eating meat
Same here