Scientists Counter Claims
That ‘Meat Is Evil’
Breitbart,
by
Thomas D. Williams
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/29/2019 6:35:22 AM
A team of UK scholars have fired back at unscientific claims by PETA and other groups that veganism is a “greener” option that eating meat, insisting that meat has “massive social benefits.”
Speaking at a panel in central London, scientists from the University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College argued that eating meat is crucial for the physical and mental health of children, especially in developing countries, adding that that alternatives to livestock farming would not improve land use.
“We feel that while livestock production has a range of economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, the costs have perhaps been receiving far more attention recently than some of the benefits,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
janjan 11/29/2019 6:53:11 AM (No. 248222)
Liberals are full of lifestyle choices they would love to impose on the rest of us. We should all become weaponless vegan drones who do not drive cars, fly in airplanes, run air conditioning, or dare to bring home more money than our neighbor. These are all privileges that our rulers would enjoy. In some countries they call this communism.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PostAway 11/29/2019 7:07:37 AM (No. 248228)
#1, beautifully put. Those who dream of having the Earth to themselves while the few they choose as servants/slaves live in hovels and eat dirt are called communists. The would-be slaves who think this is noble are called useful idiots or college students.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/29/2019 7:08:51 AM (No. 248230)
#1, don’t forget “transgenderism”. These days the left gives special privileges and right to those who look in their underpants and have no idea what they are seeing and what it means. They’ve already told us that heterosexuality is bad for the planet because it causes new humans to be created.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 11/29/2019 7:55:10 AM (No. 248265)
The claims are ridiculous and stupid on the surface. I don't even bother to do anything but laugh at them and ignore them.
Fools say the darnedest things, but it doesn't mean you have to pay any attention to them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/29/2019 8:44:15 AM (No. 248316)
Meat has sustained man through the last 40,000 years and done a fine job. No mush-headed seaweed-eating lettuce heads are going to tell me anything different. Go back to your little candle-lit huts and boil your weeds as you please if it makes you happy. I have a big ham ready to go today.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 11/29/2019 9:10:31 AM (No. 248353)
Whacko groups like PETA couldn't care less about scientific information counter to their narrative.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kreeger 11/29/2019 9:23:50 AM (No. 248370)
In many areas of the world our ancestors had no choice but to rely on animals for food and clothing. Eating meat is a far better alternative than starving to death. However, there have also been many populations that had very little animal protein in their diet and thrived.
I really hate the term vegan as it connotes a radical environmentalist and extreme animal rights agenda.
There is another term called whole food plant based which I subscribe too. There are many studies showing how populations such as Japan and China developed skyrocketing rates of heart disease, cancer and diabetes as they adopt the western diet which means more meat at the expense of carbs.
Rather than just looking for articles that rationalize your unhealthy diet choices, why not do a deep dive into the medical research of which there is vast amount. Why not see if there is a diet out there that has proven to reverse even the most serious cases of heart disease. Answer, there is and it isn't keto. In fact there are three plant based programs for heart disease reversa that after decades of patient trials, Medicare has approved them for coverage.
I really am not that bothered by people eating themselves into an early grave except it is responsible for a huge percentage of our healthcare costs. And in our massive welfare state that means much higher taxes to me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kafka2 11/29/2019 9:25:57 AM (No. 248374)
On more than one occasion I have been told by an ardent Man-Made Climate Change advocate that the ideal level for CO2 is zero. What idiots! Most of them still did not get it when I explained that plants need it to survive and that all food chains start with plants.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Delilah 11/29/2019 10:10:57 AM (No. 248430)
Last week my daughter-in-law told me about my son and her going on an all organic diet and how they'd stopped eating trashy food. My answer was that at 86 I'm in very good health and intend on still eating the trash food that got me here.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 11/29/2019 10:29:56 AM (No. 248451)
If God had not wanted us to eat animals, (1) He wouldn't have made them so tasty, and (2) He would not have sent us that Chosen One, the one who invented the wood-fired Bar-B-Q.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Smart11344 11/29/2019 10:42:11 AM (No. 248467)
Thank you, very much. I'll eat meat when ever I choose to. A nice Rib Eye sounds good for lunch. You body needs the protein that comes only from meat.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 11/29/2019 10:55:46 AM (No. 248481)
I dont need no scientist to tell me that meat is okay. I am a omnivore. I like meat. I like vegetables. I like dairy. I like fruit. I am a free thinker. And, btw, for Nannie Bloomberg, I didn't stuff myself yesterday.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
columba 11/29/2019 11:28:48 AM (No. 248511)
In Genesis, just after the flood, God pronounces meat as good to eat.
Look it up.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 11/29/2019 11:48:26 AM (No. 248527)
If God did not want us to eat animals, then why did He make them out of meat?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
clipped wings 11/29/2019 1:20:50 PM (No. 248604)
#15. The chapter in Genesis you mention is Number 9. The specific verse is number 3. Exactly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/29/2019 1:50:27 PM (No. 248622)
As the comedy team of Flanders and Swann sang in the Cannibal song, ''People will eat you whether or now they can swallow your opinions.''
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono 11/29/2019 2:31:11 PM (No. 248640)
There's a basic nutrient that's essential for good health that is routinely left out of this discussion (e.g. #8), and that's free choice. Removing freedom from life removes much of the motivation for living. And from my perspective, eating is about more than just the support of physical health. Some people consider the social element of meals to be essential, and some consider the pleasure of eating to be just as important as the nutrition element (if not more so).
I get fed up to here with people having very serious discussions about what I should eat. Let consumers know what they are eating (i.e. no hiding whether the meat is natural or artificial), and let them decide for themselves what to eat.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
4Justice 11/29/2019 3:59:55 PM (No. 248675)
They are not liberals...they are leftists and nothing they stand for is anywhere near liberal. Leftism is all about getting power and control. True liberals believe in freedom, equality and individual inalienable rights...our Founders' ideals. These leftists do not. We need to stop using the misnomer "liberal" as it only helps the left continue to mislead the public as to their true intentions.
That said, not all people synthesize vegetable iron as well as meat iron. I tried not eating meat and tried supplementing iron but I would always become anemic. I have to eat meat. Besides I like it. We are omnivores--not herbivores. These controlling leftists need to stop trying to dictate people's lives. We are supposed to have a free county--not a Stalinist dictatorship.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/29/2019 4:03:16 PM (No. 248678)
The only Meat that is EVIL is the Communist Fried Brains of Leftists!
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