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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Reprinted from This Vegan Life

"Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores and the instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses. Ask yourself: When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop for a snack? Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate? Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw? If you answered "no" to all of these questions, congratulations—you're a normal human herbivore—like it or not. Humans were simply not designed to eat meat."
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2 comments:

  1. Leanne FransonFebruary 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM

    haha, humans don't have the physical characteristics to live in Montreal either. No fur. Get soaked like nothing. Burn in the sun. lips and skin crack. :D

    I don't salivate at rice fields either, and chewing wheat straight off the fields is fun for wheat gum, but I am pretty sure would do my teeth in before I ate it for a year. We don't have crops, or teeth that keep growing when we chew plant matter, or three stomachs to ferment it for digestion like cows. I would say we are omnivores. Actually a large part of the human population salivates at insects, which after all is high protein meat which doesn't necessarily take cooking.

    Why do we salivate at eggs, cheese, meat "damaged" by heat? (some do eat eggs raw. milk... well our first food is milk, so wanting to continue on any other animal milk or milk fat is logical)...

    Some of your recipes sound great though. I will keep cooking my rice and beans and baking my bread!

    Nice blog. Love the photos.

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  2. Zucchini BreathFebruary 3, 2009 at 8:17 AM

    Yes, there are many arguments about whether or not people were "designed" to eat meat. I posted this on a lazy day when I didn't have a good recipe to post or something ;D


    One reasoning that I subscribe to is that the way meat is raised now, in crowded conditions, pumped full of antibiotics to keep them alive and fed on corn and ground up scraps of other animals, makes commercial meat unhealthy to eat.

    I can't stop thinking about what kind of life commercial farm animals may have had and that stops me from enjoying any product that comes from them.


    Thanks for stopping by!

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