The Morning News

1. So out of all the gold medalist, you could find, on some obscure website, ten that may be to some varying degree vegetarian?

   Again, I’m part of the food chain. Lions eat gazelle. Sharks eat seals and penguins. I eat too eat meat. It’s good to be at the top of the food chain.

2. #51, If there was a registry where Olympic medalists list their dietary habits, I could give you more. Can you find ten Olympic medalists that you can confirm do eat corpses? Those are 10 outstanding gold medalists who don’t eat corpses, not just random competitors in Trampoline or Luge.

   Unfortunately, bird and pig flu eat you. You are causing yourself to drop from the top of the food chain. How does it feel to be completely out of control of your own health because of your carcass-eating acts?

3. 52, The list of meat eating medalists would include about 99 percent of Olympians.

   Unlike your weakened vegetarian body, my health is excellent. I have low cholesterol, low body fat, lots of lean muscle. I have a heart rate of about 54 bpm, and very healthy blood pressure. Like other meat eating species, I’m eating a diet that my body evolved to eat. Vegetarian species were not able to compete, now we are at the top. Again, most flues that affect people were formed in people. Yes there is cross over, but that would happen regardless of whether or not people eat meat. My meat eating body is better able to fight off diseases, while your vegetarian weakened body will be sick for weeks if not months.

4. You do know that most flu viruses contracted by humans originated in humans, right?

   Essentially all viruses that now afflict humans originated from other animals, namely animals domesticated for food purposes.

   Could you guys just ignore Stop it now, please? Fifty comments and a whole thread hijacked because of his/her nonsense. Ignore. The. Troll.

5. #53, You are being silly and ridiculous. People who don’t eat animal carcasses are healthier and live longer. You will die an average of 7 years earlier than you would if you didn’t eat animal corpses. Do you have children? Will you tell them that they won’t have a dad for 7 extra years because you can’t stop eating bodies? If they get sick and die from pig or bird flu will you write “sorry, daddy couldn’t stop eating dead bodies but at least he has a healthy blood pressure despite his unhealthy diet that contributed to his children’s deaths” on their tombstones?

6. #54, I’d like to hear what you consider to be my “nonsense.” I’m sorry for hijacking this thread if I prevented you from discussing something else here.

7. 55, I bet I’ll live longer than you, as I am much healthier. I am eating a great balanced diet that includes meat, and will be able to fight off any disease better than your vegetarian weakened body.

8. @Stop it now: I don’t disagree that there are some pretty bad consequences of eating meat. But if you will allow me to bring this up, more of the e.coli outbreaks of the recent 10 years have come from vegetables.

   I think the problem isn’t meat vs. vegetarian. It’s large factory farms (which are nasty and cause illness) vs. small sustainable farms (both meat and veggie ones)

   Also, good for you for standing for what you believe in. I understand, you think that the slaughter of animals is wrong, and unhealthy, and bad for the environment. We all know that. ALL OF US. This topic has been played out ad naseum on Slog. Really. You are basically doing the equivolent of telling smokers “hey, smoking causes cancer!”

   The best thing you can do is try to promote healthy, sustainable meat farming. And telling meat eaters to try and buy organic or grass fed if possible. But right now, when everyone is poor, and meat (especially red meat) is cheap, people need to eat and they will eat that.

9. Original Monique #58: Thank you. E.coli outbreaks are spread by vegetables, but E.coli is an animal disease that originates from the harvesting of pig, cow, and bird corpses. E.coli cannot come from vegetables; it is an animal disease. Unfortunately, factory farms often mix animal and plant sources of food, causing E.coli outbreaks. The problem is that plant sources of food are often eaten raw, while animal sources generally are not (unlike the raw forms of corpse that our species evolved to eat). If farms would stop harvesting animal corpses along with their foods, there would be no more E.coli outbreaks.

   Organic and grass fed animals that are slaughtered for consumption have environmental, animal cruelty, and possibly health benefits, but don’t prevent the origins of bird and pig flus, or the serious health risks that go along with a carcass diet. Only stopping the harvesting and consumption of animal corpses can do that.

   I understand it has been played out, but I am only responding to misconceptions by other commenters and Slog posters. If there were none, I would not be commenting.

10. Stop it Now and Rob in Baltimore:

    We, the folks who for some reason read all your posts, demand proof! Pictures of yourselves, naked. Flex!

11. @50 ***FAIL***

    Killer Whales and Polar Bears eat meat (seals). And they are pretty damn big.

    Nice try though.

12. @ Stop it: I applaud your taking such a vehement stand for what you believe in, and will try to stop being flippant in response to it. Anything else I can think of to say will look like I am immediately breaking my promise, so I will just leave it at that.

13. @ Spokane guy: Hugs! 🙂

14. Slog contributer ‘Stop it now’ raises valid points about the harm caused by the mass production and over consumption of meat in the industrialized and the industrializing world. Clearly, the costs of meat gluttony to health and the environment are not well understood or accepted, or meat consumption wouldn’t be rising even further above its already unsustainable levels.

    I love meat. But I love it even more eating it once a week instead of every day. Humans aren’t carnivores; something we forget, I think. Meat has evolutionarily been an infrequent part of our diets. We’re able to get by well on a range of fruits, vegetables and grains, plus the occasional carcass.

    Crowing, as Rob from Baltimore does, about some fantasy of being on top of the food chain, as if that meant anything but ill for every living thing beneath us, and perhaps for ourselves as well, is a mind numbingly childish argument. Frankly, I’ve come to expect better from regular Slog contributers.

    Thank you, stop it now, for nimbly calling out the elephant in the room of meat gluttony. I hope you continue to bring this up at Slog.

15. Learn from Indonesian people if you want to be vegetarian.

Comments are closed.