A sacred tenet of vegetarianism got bloodied today.

Eat things that haven't been processed.
Engage in physical activity.
You'll be fine.

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Eat things that haven't been processed.

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That's kind of hard since any form of cooking, cutting, etc. is processing.

Your snack tonight is cracklins and pimento cheese dip...

Our brains are uncharacteristically gigantic relative to our bodies in the context of the animal kingdom at large. The beasts below our station carry on their bones a utility essential to the pursuit of human wellness- meat. It played a big part in our brain's early development- as it unquestionably does still to this day.

Transitioning from fruits and nuts foraged from the forests and jungles they inhabited, early humans made a big step forward when they developed such a taste for the raw flesh of dead creatures that it compelled them to exit their caves and jungled nests in search of quarry on the plains. Somewhere along the line, these transitional hunter-gatherers took to cooking the bloody cuts of flesh as a means of mitigating the unsavory factors associated with meat of questionable quality. Meat can do, and did, wonders for the brain- and heat potentiated that wonderful development. Eating meat that is appropriately cooked, not too little, not too much, is literally a big brain move.

I can respect choosing not to eat meat over issues relating to the brutal nature of massive scale meat production- the life of a Tyson chicken is an affront to the
fundamental dignity of life that should be afforded to all creatures.

Choosing not to eat because you are unsettled by the drugs and steroids pumped into the animal from birth to slaughter is also understandable, and there are ways to get around that and still enjoy a roasted bird.

Lifestyling as a vegetarian/veganism is a regressive activity, and purposeful exclusion of meat proteins and fats from one's diet is an act of nutritional self-flaggelation; to do so is to wage an active and hostile campaign against one's own biologic design in pigheaded contradiction to the wealth of knowledge which compose the entirety of evolutionary and dietary sciences. These are scared people. They are scared of their own awesome potential as a human. Cellulite and stretch marks, adult acne, beefy flanks of corpulent blubber around the midsection, long-ossified muscle, brittle bones, and stunted brains: these are just a few of the ordeals that attend their destructive vocation. They look unmistakably like baby bird shite- all this, yet they insist theirs is the natural human diet. They inundate their sad, puppy-piss guts with colorful pastes and weapons-grade quantities of soy. They terrorize the entire food service industry with demands of special attention. In forsaking the sin of meat consumption, they seek to sew seeds of solace in their bloated, rippling, inadequately bloused bellies; they reap only infirmity abd repulsion. A vegan/vegetarian who rejects meat on the basis of dietary virtue is a consummate ingrate- a maladjusted l vole living in a hole, petrified of tapping into their own inherent world-conquering potential.

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We all know what I meant by that.

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Yep, forget Impossible Whoppers and all the other tremendously processed stuff they are trying to call food. Slice or tear off a hunk, chunk, or slab of your kids favorite anthropomorphized real animal and slather in appropriate sauce to your hearts content.

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That's kind of hard since any form of cooking, cutting, etc. is processing.

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Arky “processing”:

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I am not at all vegetarian or vegan. Just cautioning people before we jump off of the cliff and start claiming that red meat is a wonderful health food.

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Well, it for sure as shite isn't bad for you, and that's a start because it IS better for you. You of all people have read my posts over the years.

I didn't read this article, but it sounds like a study removed some confounding variables that are always present in the "meat is bad for you" studies.

Just like anything, it’s all about moderation.

Eating a 16oz ribeye once a week and a plate of ribs once a week with chicken and fish in between ain’t gonna hurt you.

Eating 3 24oz cowboy ribeyes a week along with burgers, fried shite, salads doused in ranch, and sugary drinks will probably cause heart issues

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respect choosing not to eat meat over issues relating to the brutal nature of massive scale meat production- the life of a Tyson chicken is an affront to the
fundamental dignity of life that should be afforded to all creatures.

Choosing not to eat because you are unsettled by the drugs and steroids pumped into the animal from birth to slaughter is also understandable, and there are ways to get around that and still enjoy a roasted bird.

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As can I. I wish I owned a large enough tract of pasture land to have a small chicken house and a few cows/pigs and raise my own meat tbh