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I've gone (ovo-lacto) vegetarian recently and I couldn't be happier. My body feels lighter, my mind more productive and my mood improved somewhat. My initial i

I've gone (ovo-lacto) vegetarian recently and I couldn't be happier. My body feels lighter, my mind more productive and my mood improved somewhat. My initial intention was to be somewhat "flex" and have meat and seafood once in a while, like once a month, but I've eaten meat only once in 4 months and it was not specially satisfying: it tasted overwhelmingly salty and I wasn't able to enjoy the flavor. I guess I lost interest. Biting into a dead animal now feels wrong, it feels like eating food from a garbage can. Even eggs, milk and sometimes cheese seem like a stretch for me now. I did not anticipate that. In fact, I thought I was going to really enjoy my "meat day" but now I dread it. Friends ask why I did it. I don't have one particular reason. Just did it. I'm not sure if the planet's better because of me not eating meat. I don't want to sound moral, but it does feel civilized, in an almost naive way, not to crave other animals. But I know I'm vegetarian because my body, and not my conscience, asked for it. I've always been a proud meat eater. I laughed at my sister when she turned vegan. But I now feel relieved like a criminal that confessed his crime after 40 years in hiding. Trust me, eating meat is not important when you eat from a wide range of sources. Eating meat, poultry, seafood should be a special, almost mystical thing (in some religions it is), reserved for special occasions. It should be local, not global. The massive processing of animals is not only cruel and insanely wasteful, but is quite unhealthy from the epidemiological and physiological perspective.

cies 9y ago
As a long term lacto-ovo vegetarian, who is went mostly plant-based for health reasons: dairy causes many ailments, a quite unnatural food for humans to eat... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q
- toasterlovin 9y ago
  For some people. Others of us are well adapted to dairy and, for us, dairy is a miraculous food category. It is a great source of protein and fat. It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes. And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent).
  - cies 9y ago
    > Others of us are well adapted to dairy No one is properly adapted, that why milk consumption is associated with shorter lifespan and some diseases. > And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent). What? Do yo mean to only drink milk (or eat meat)? In that case you lack fiber, big time. I've mentioned, and provided you with a video revealing how damaging milk is to the human body. It will sustain your medical bill, until you die. :) > It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes. That's an opinion, and I must say I also really like the taste of some milk products.
    - toasterlovin 9y ago
      > No one is properly adapted, that why milk consumption is associated with shorter lifespan and some diseases. Adaptation to a lifestyle dependent on milk and it's derivatives was a huge inflection point in the evolution of Europeans. It gave the bearers of this adaptation a tremendous advantage over people who lacked it and consequently spread rapidly. If I were you, I would be very suspicious about diet advice derived from epidemiological studies, since those studies can only ever infer correlation, not causation, and are likely mostly useless as a result of this shortcoming. This article by Gary Taubes goes into great detail about why (and, seriously, this is one of the most important things I've ever read): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.... > Do yo mean to only drink milk (or eat meat)? Yes. See the Maasai (huge milk consumption) and Inuit (who historically ate a diet consisting entirely of meat from sea mammals). If you're interested about diet and how it relates to health, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is an amazing book, which is, on the surface, about how dietary fat and carbohydrates affect health, but is really a deep dive into how we ascertain knowledge and how the political process of scientific recommendations gets corrupted by human shortcomings.

cies 9y ago

As a long term lacto-ovo vegetarian, who is went mostly plant-based for health reasons: dairy causes many ailments, a quite unnatural food for humans to eat... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q

toasterlovin 9y ago
For some people. Others of us are well adapted to dairy and, for us, dairy is a miraculous food category. It is a great source of protein and fat. It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes. And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent).
- cies 9y ago
  > Others of us are well adapted to dairy No one is properly adapted, that why milk consumption is associated with shorter lifespan and some diseases. > And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent). What? Do yo mean to only drink milk (or eat meat)? In that case you lack fiber, big time. I've mentioned, and provided you with a video revealing how damaging milk is to the human body. It will sustain your medical bill, until you die. :) > It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes. That's an opinion, and I must say I also really like the taste of some milk products.
  - toasterlovin 9y ago
    > No one is properly adapted, that why milk consumption is associated with shorter lifespan and some diseases. Adaptation to a lifestyle dependent on milk and it's derivatives was a huge inflection point in the evolution of Europeans. It gave the bearers of this adaptation a tremendous advantage over people who lacked it and consequently spread rapidly. If I were you, I would be very suspicious about diet advice derived from epidemiological studies, since those studies can only ever infer correlation, not causation, and are likely mostly useless as a result of this shortcoming. This article by Gary Taubes goes into great detail about why (and, seriously, this is one of the most important things I've ever read): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.... > Do yo mean to only drink milk (or eat meat)? Yes. See the Maasai (huge milk consumption) and Inuit (who historically ate a diet consisting entirely of meat from sea mammals). If you're interested about diet and how it relates to health, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is an amazing book, which is, on the surface, about how dietary fat and carbohydrates affect health, but is really a deep dive into how we ascertain knowledge and how the political process of scientific recommendations gets corrupted by human shortcomings.