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Is vegetarianism unnatural?

Is vegetarianism unnatural?

  • No

    Votes: 5 10.6%

  • Yes

    Votes: 30 63.8%

  • Nature has no intentions

    Votes: 9 19.1%

  • I don't kow

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 4.3%
  • Total voters
    47
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It's unnatural because we have teeth that are specifically good at tearing into meat.
 
Did you mean to say cannibalism, but typed in vegetarianism by mistake? Otherwise the question makes little sense to me.
 
For humans yes. Our bodies accept meat as the perfect protein. With vegies, specific and exact combos must be employed to come close enough to a protein chain our bodies will accept. We have some need for the blood and urea in the meat and the fats keep our coat nice and silky smooth.

Name a vegetarian, outside of fiction who has lived to over 100 and I can name many more who weren't.
 
Just vegetarian, you will not get the proteins the body needs to function.

The human body requires it, we must to give it what it needs. Some people have issues digesting meat and meat proteins, so they have to limit their intake, and should be substituting as much other protein as they can.

So no, just a vegetarian diet is not 'natural'.
 
Rice and beans forms a complete protein. You do not need meat. I used to be a vegetarian, and I was never healthier.
 
we're omnivores, but we're also omnivores with incredible food preparation abilities. a modern vegetarian has access to all manner of prepared protein foods which are non-animal in origin.

people get too hung up on the whole "natural" thing. ****, cooking meat isn't "natural," if one goes back far enough. bread isn't natural by any definition. what is natural? high infant mortality, dying at forty, and getting eaten by a bear are all "natural" things for humans. I'll take the modern setup.
 
The next significant evolution will be mental.
 
It depends on the person. I've been a vegetarian and a vegan. I even did raw food for a while. I did OK but I'd need a full time creative veggie chef to keep my attention. Over time I have found that I function better eating high protein, usually that's meat.

To each his own.
 
Amadeus said:
Rice and beans forms a complete protein. You do not need meat. I used to be a vegetarian, and I was never healthier.
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You only thought you were. Again, know any long time vegetarians that lived to 100 years?
 
vegetarianism is patently UNnatural...otherwise bacon wouldn't be so naturally delicious
 
You can actually body build and grow incredible mass on a vegetarian diet. It's not just about eating carrots and bean spouts. There are plenty of options. I've thought about going back to it several times, because I was so damned healthy.
 
Amadeus said:
Rice and beans forms a complete protein. You do not need meat. I used to be a vegetarian, and I was never healthier.
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They may form a 'complete protein', but they are also very high in carbs, which quite often can cause additional problems of their own when consumed on a daily basis in enough bulk to provide the needed protein. I've seen beans and rice (8oz) charted as high as 46 carbs, where meat, a more pure form of protein, is about about 5 grams of carb for a serving.
 
Extremes are unnatural. No meat at all is an extreme. Meals centered around meat are not so good, either, from a health perspective. A balanced diet is natural, and is the healthiest option.

If god had wanted us to be vegetarians, she wouldn't have created cows and chickens.
 
It would be very very difficult to be a vegetarian without modern logistics.
 
A strictly vegetarian diet is something primitive man probably never had the luxury to chose. They had to eat anything and everything that they could find. However many primitive cultures did not eat nearly as much meat as we do today. We as Americans eat meat pretty much every meal and many times the meat is our primary dish. We are not meant to have this much meat in our diets.

If you look at our last surviving tribes of hunter/gathers you will find that their diets consist largely of plant matter. Anytime people are heavily hunting animals in an area, animal numbers can become sparse and meat hard to acquire so they must rely heavily on plant foods. This is probably very indicative of early man.
 
You actually need carbs to be healthy. They fuel your body. If you neglect them, you'll be very sorry. Not to mention that rice and beans are just one of many forms of protein that can be achieved on a vegetarian diet.

A meat-heavy diet will give you nothing but problems later on in life. In comparison to a vegetarian diet, which has few if any negative health issues.
 
Being unnatural and being wrong at not the same. Nor is something being natural or unnatural establish any ethical standards.

Homo Sapiens have canine teeth. So eating meat is "natural." Doesn't necessarily make it right.
 
Anyways, my opinion: Who cares if it's "natural?" The ADA has stated that one can meet all nutritional needs (including during pregnancy / as a child) on a vegetarian or vegan diet.
 
afr0byte said:
Anyways, my opinion: Who cares if it's "natural?" The ADA has stated that one can meet all nutritional needs (including during pregnancy / as a child) on a vegetarian or vegan diet.
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and? you can eat your own **** twice before it loses all nutritional value and you can drink your own piss once before it becomes toxic.
 
joko104 said:
Being unnatural and being wrong at not the same. Nor is something being natural or unnatural establish any ethical standards.

Homo Sapiens have canine teeth. So eating meat is "natural." Doesn't necessarily make it right.
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So is it your contention that every animal with teeth is geared towards eating meat?

By the way, you do not have canine teeth, unless you're a genetic freak or a talking dog.
 
afr0byte said:
The ADA (American Dietetic Association) would disagree with you.
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Then you ought to be able to produce a list of vegetarians who lived to 100 years old. We'll wait.
 
GottaGo said:
They may form a 'complete protein', but they are also very high in carbs, which quite often can cause additional problems of their own when consumed on a daily basis in enough bulk to provide the needed protein. I've seen beans and rice (8oz) charted as high as 46 carbs, where meat, a more pure form of protein, is about about 5 grams of carb for a serving.
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There's also low carb options like nuts, seeds, tofu, soy milk, seitan (wheat gluten), if you're actually that concerned. Or, heck, one can buy pea protein powder or whey protein powder (if they're a lacto-vegetarian) if they're that concerned about carbs. Many doctors recommend our diet be ~70% carbs anyways. Obviously one should eat whole grains, as the fiber limits sugar spikes that you're probably worried about, since you mention carbs. The title of this thread is vegetarian. Most vegetarians eat eggs. Eggs are actually just about the gold standard for protein quality. They're better than meat, since they don't have all of the saturated fat that many meats do.
 
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