Posted on 02/09/2005 11:07:40 AM PST by MikeEdwards
You don’t need to be a physician, a nutritionist, or even have a fancy degree to understand why humans eat meat. Just check the teeth in your mouth. There are 20 of them devoted to eating meat, but only 12 for fruit and vegetables.
If you are inclined to examine the human body further, you will discover, as Dr. Max Ernest Jutte, MD, pointed out in 1936, "the stomach is a carnivorous organ designed primarily to digest lean meat, and that the small intestine, pancreas, and liver are mainly herbivorous and designed to digest vegetables, fruits, fats, and farinaceous (starch) foods."
Dr. Jutte, by the time of his death at 84 in 1960 was widely and highly regarded as an authority on digestive disorders. A fan of his, now 80, is Frank Murray, the author of more than 40 books on nutrition and health topics, brought him to my attention with his book, You Must Eat Meat, which incorporated the original 1936 text by Dr. Jutte, with his own. (Available from Amazon.com and www.huttonelecronicpublishing.com)
Americans have been under siege for years by the "nanny" federal government that insists on telling us what to eat and how much. The 2005 "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" is idiotic and rightly attacked. In a commentary published on Tech Central Station.com in January, Sandy Szwarc called the new guidelines "untenable the instant they abandoned the long-term pledge to promote better health for all Americans and instead made everything about weight." That word--weight--appears 150 times in an 84-page document. . . . .
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I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.
Makes me want some prime rib...
I want prime rib to go along with the lobster for my Fierce Allegiance Day dinner tonight. Yummm!
Great. You really needed to post this on Ash Wednesday?
*thinks of steak, eats pea soup*
I am an enthusiastic participant in the war on meat. Especially steak.
Meat eating animals are high performance, high intelligence animals. The plant eaters are dumber and slow moving. This may explain a lot about the democrats.
Younger and tenderer the better.
I remember seeing a show on Discovery or TLC that stated that the consumption of meat, whether killed or carrion, fueled brain growth, essentially sending early humans down their path to modern humans. Don't bother cooking mine past medium rare please.
Me too! And Atkins works for me. When I eat lots of meat, eggs, and cheese, and drop the breads, cookies, and starches, I loose weight quickly.
Unfortunately I love doughnuts, pies, cakes, gingerbread, cinnamon toast, pancakes, spagetti, pizza, strawberry jam on rye and I gain the weight back even faster.
I seem to remember a special on one of the wildlife channels about the characteristics of carnivores/predators vs. herbivores/prey. Prey type animals have eyes wide apart on either side of their head like deer or mice. This is so they can scan the field for a threat. Predators have close set eyes, "targeting eyes" to focus on a single prey, like a hawk or tiger. Look in the mirror.
I seem to remember a special on one of the wildlife channels about the characteristics of carnivores/predators vs. herbivores/prey. Prey type animals have eyes wide apart on either side of their head like deer or mice. This is so they can scan the field for a threat. Predators have close set eyes, "targeting eyes" to focus on a single prey, like a hawk or tiger. Look in the mirror.
A friend of mine is from South Africa. One day the subject of nutrition came up. I asked her if the food pyramid is american or international. She said they tried it in south africa but stopped referring to it.
I asked her why. She said, "Everybody started getting fat."
Actually, I really like soy and all the veggie stuff, but on occasion, nothing beats a perfectly cooked filet mignon... My thinking is, if you are going to eat meat, eat high-quality meat. It's worth the extra couple of bucks and better for you...
?HUH? Doesn't Ash Wednesday mean you order steak well done?
So true. It's not the meat that's bad for you, it's the nasty industrialized crap that's bad for you. Fast food also. Life's too short to eat stuff like that.
There's only three levels of done-ness: rare, medium-rare, and ruined.
Food! You call that food? (Pointing toward salad bar). That ain't food! That's what food eats!
For me, I'll whack off a piece as you walk the cow past the fire!
I whole heartedly support vegetarians. The way I see it, every animal they don't eat just leaves more for me.
Thanks vegidorks!
Why do you have a photo of a calf in a grassy green field?
Take a look at the Pennsylvania Beef Council "Veal Farm" web site (part of the beef industry, not an anti-meat web site, you can follow the links from the Cattlemen's Beef Board to the Pennyslvania Beef Council to Veal Farm)
Individual housing in a modern veal farm allows animals to receive their own feed, individual care and attention.That's a really fancy way of saying "Veal calves don't get to frolic in grassy fields, they're locked up in tiny pens."
My answer was "I sure am glad the cow ate all those bales of hay and recycled it for me 'cause I'm not particulaly fond of hay".
The religious (old time) version of that is "If the Lord didn't mean for us to eat cows, he wouldn't have made them out of beef".
I can't afford meat anymore. Can you believe the price for steak these days?
< mystified> What does Ash Wednesday have to do with anything? Is there something in the Bible that says you can't eat meat today?
For a lot of Christians (traditional Anglicans, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, etc.) Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence.
This isn't a biblical commandment, it's more of a traditional observance to mark the beginning of Lent. You know that whole Mardi Gras/Carnival thing? It used to be the pig-out before Ash Wednesday.
If meat is necessary for brain development that would explain the total lack of logical thinking on the part of vegans!
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