kevin_strom on Nostr: Why am I skeptical of the "meat right"? 1) It's trendy and a lot of people have ...

Why am I skeptical of the "meat right"? 1) It's trendy and a lot of people have jumped on the bandwagon to make money or get social approval -- I inherently distrust such things; they are almost always wrong;

2) We humans, as an evolving living entity and including our pre-human evolution, have been primarily plant-eaters for most of that history, far longer than the million or two years since we (like the 98%-vegetarian chimps) discovered that we could add rotting flesh to our diets, so the adaptations to flesh-eating are recent and slight;

3) Meat-eating is incredibly cruel and callous, as anyone who has seriously studied animal-agribusiness knows, and it's also totally unnecessary for human health;

4) We are not natural carnivores, as our tooth structure clearly shows, and we do not share the carnivores' intense fascination with, and love for, the smell and texture of rotting flesh (we do not rush with intense enthusiasm to eat raw road kill, for example, as any carnivore would; we _have to_ cover this sort of thing up with cooking; blood flow does not make us salivate, most people are repelled by all this);

5) The whole "meat right" genre is chock-full of utterly false statements, such as "animal fat is needed for proper brain function," "a vegan diet is feminizing -- you may not be able to have children, and the ones you have will be weak and sickly," and "you must eat meat to be healthy."

That last claim is a real whopper. I am raising my second set of three children; I have fathered six altogether -- so far. I have zero trouble keeping up with my kids and my much-younger wife, even though I make no particular effort to do formal exercises (chasing and lifting and tossing the kids, and going on long woods and mountain hikes are fun, though). I take no medications whatsoever. My children still at home are 4, 3, and 1 years old respectively. Their growth and development are off-the-charts excellent. I will be 69 years old later this year. I haven't eaten meat since the Gerald Ford administration.