![]() ![]() I respect people who are compassionate enough to value animal rights, even making great personal sacrifices to further their causes. (To be fair, the same goes for a strict carnivore diet that needs to be done with care.) It could be considered elitist to mandate or even insinuate that no one should eat meat, just as it would for a meat eater to condemn those who choose to eat only plants. Eating less than “perfectly” on a vegan diet puts you at risk for deficiencies and can threaten your health. ![]() To truly thrive on a vegan diet requires a lot of education and expense and simply isn’t feasible for many. This can leave many families intent on observing “Meatless Mondays” dishing up inferior foods they find affordable and accessible to the detriment of their health. Healthy vegan alternatives are often not affordable or not accessible to a large portion of the population and is arguably less nutritious than animal products. Is it ethical to deny or shame people for eating food that is good for them, part of their healing strategy, and traditionally prized by our ancestors? We’ve talked exhaustively about how meat offers an alternative for people with autoimmune issues or other conditions that make plants hard and even painful to eat. Who can shame them for accessing nutrient dense food that works with their biology? And for buying or raising it for their families? They are, after all, chasing the same goal: vitality and freedom from disease. Others have the same dedication to health and wellness but achieve it through an omnivorous or even a carnivorous diet. 2 Now consider that the cost of health care and lost wages for obesity related reasons is over $150 billion dollars and you begin to see how costly poor food choices are! 3 Those who choose to be plant-based for health reasons already believe passionately in the benefits of breaking this cycle by making better food choices. goes to treat diabetes and its complications. One in seven dollars spent on health care in the U.S. Obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are examples of conditions that cost us dearly in medical expenses, lost wages and diminished quality of life. On a larger scale, processed and hyperpalatable foods are fueling a world-wide epidemic of metabolic disease. ![]() Would it be ethical for me to make him start eating plants again? ![]() My husband is able to work harder without pain. My 30 day experiment shows how much less I ate overall. Eating Meat May Break the Disease CycleĮarlier in this carnivore series we talked about nutrient density and how healing meat is, especially for those who can’t tolerate plants. It makes sense why our species thrived on meat. They can, for example, extract non-heme iron from alfalfa that would pass through us nearly intact and turn it into heme iron that we then easily absorb by consuming beef. They have a multi-chambered stomach and an extensive rumen that can turn fibers that are indigestible to us-like grass-into protein and fat. They are the perfect conversion machines. Compare our digestion to that of a ruminant animal, like a cow for instance, and the story changes. We lose much of the nutrition we count on in this conversion process. Plant nutrients have to be broken down and converted to usable forms for our specific biology. But plant foods are hard to digest, require a lot of prep in some cases, are largely available seasonally (or shipped at great expense), and inevitably are less bioavailable than the nutrients in meat. These abilities have allowed us to become omnivores, using plant foods as survival foods to fill in gaps when meat is unavailable or game is scarce. Traditional cultures have developed all manner of preparations to make plant food more digestible: soaking, sprouting, fermenting, cooking, pounding, grinding, etc. ![]()
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