(March 9, 2014 at 9:53 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: What "principles"? There are many reasons people choose not to eat animals.
As for "needing" meat... We obviously don't need meat, or vegetarians would all die prematurely. I've been veggie almost all my life, I don't think I've died or been ill from not eating meat yet, funnily enough.
Humans are omnivores, we can survive just fine with or without meat in our diets. Eat what the fuck you want.
Long term vegetarians do not do well.
Frankly you could say that I am 70% vegetarian. That is to say that my diet consists of 70% vegetable matter, and the other 30% is taken up with dairy, meat, and eggs.
We do "need" heme-Iron, I personally am unable to process metallic/ vegetative iron. It frankly makes me violently ill and one step away from hospital. I do not think that I am unique to this situation.
So....
Eat what your body demands you to eat. BUT look at what you are eating and have a care as to WHERE this food is coming from.
Anything other than the above is religious dogma. No vegetarian has 'saved' any animal, nor have they stopped any 'live animal trade' (it is currently expanding here in Oz to the SE Asian markets) so really it is no better than say xtianity as a personal 'idealism' BUT IF your body seems to do well on such a diet...GO FOR IT!
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
