Vegetarian?

Oleyy · May 12, 2012

kilmannan said: ↑

Being a vegetarian is an unnatural lifestyle choice.

It doesn't really matter how you word it, but for the last few thousand years, man has eaten meat or animal produce and our bodies have evolved as such.

A few of my friends are doctors and one of them is about to have a baby. His wife is vegetarian but as a doctor he has told her straight out that he will not allow the child to be vegetarian nor subjected to a vegetarian input. He says that meat and associated products are essential for a developing body, and he's even made his wife move into small meat forays to ensure the baby gets enough nutrients during the pregnancy.

He also, rather interestingly, states research linking to the increase in allergies in new children to parents avoiding 'bad foods' when they're pregnant. For example, he's seeing more cases of children who are lactose intolerant with mothers who didn't drink milk during the pregnacy because it's supposed to be bad for the child. He says it's like a vaccination, where you are subjected to minute amounts of the disease. With this sort of thing, being subjected to lactose as an incubating foetus increases the childs resistance to it, as such.

People are free to do their own thing, but vegetarianism and general avoidance of certain food groups does have its downsides.

Also, Quorn burgers are impossible to cook on a BBQ, when above mentioned friend came round to one and brought some for herself. Three of us were stood round this BBQ watching this Quorn burger do.... nothing....
"Is it cooked yet? It must be. It's been on there for 40 minutes, but it's not changed colour!"

Tasted like cardboard. Blearugh.

Plus as I know humanity has began evolve faster and be able to think and find solutions to problems. So being a vegetarian isn't something that nice. No offence to anyone

jonions · May 12, 2012

kilmannan said: ↑

Being a vegetarian is an unnatural lifestyle choice.

It doesn't really matter how you word it, but for the last few thousand years, man has eaten meat or animal produce and our bodies have evolved as such.

A few of my friends are doctors and one of them is about to have a baby. His wife is vegetarian but as a doctor he has told her straight out that he will not allow the child to be vegetarian nor subjected to a vegetarian input. He says that meat and associated products are essential for a developing body, and he's even made his wife move into small meat forays to ensure the baby gets enough nutrients during the pregnancy.

He also, rather interestingly, states research linking to the increase in allergies in new children to parents avoiding 'bad foods' when they're pregnant. For example, he's seeing more cases of children who are lactose intolerant with mothers who didn't drink milk during the pregnacy because it's supposed to be bad for the child. He says it's like a vaccination, where you are subjected to minute amounts of the disease. With this sort of thing, being subjected to lactose as an incubating foetus increases the childs resistance to it, as such.

People are free to do their own thing, but vegetarianism and general avoidance of certain food groups does have its downsides.

Also, Quorn burgers are impossible to cook on a BBQ, when above mentioned friend came round to one and brought some for herself. Three of us were stood round this BBQ watching this Quorn burger do.... nothing....
"Is it cooked yet? It must be. It's been on there for 40 minutes, but it's not changed colour!"

Tasted like cardboard. Blearugh.

Someone is going to make this counter-point, so I might as well save some time and counter it.
"When we were eating meat naturally, we were 'cavemen', so to speak. Now that we have developed and evolved into a more environmentally conscious species, we owe it to the animals not to mistreat them."
That point is utterly WRONG. Just because we are a little bit more evolved than we were doesn't mean that our nutritional needs have changed drastically. Like kilmannan said, meat and/or animal products are essential to human well-being, and we are omnivores by nature. Just because it's been a few thousand years doesn't mean we can just stop eating meat.

Yes in real life.	1 vote(s)	1.6%
Yes in real life and minecraft.	4 vote(s)	6.5%
No I pay people to murder animals so I can eat their rotting corpses.	18 vote(s)	29.0%
Yes, but only in Minecraft.	2 vote(s)	3.2%
No, I enjoy fresh meat but not the rotten stuff.	34 vote(s)	54.8%
Only spider eyes!	3 vote(s)	4.8%

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