Quote: (02-26-2019 08:37 PM)BlastbeatCasanova Wrote:
I highly doubt that there is a conspiracy/movement or a cabal sitting in a dark room plotting to remove animal products from the modern diet to keep men "weak" and "low T." First of all, the meat/dairy industries are huge money and have big lobbies that are in bed with the FDA, big pharma, etc. If anything, overconsumption of these keeps people fat and unhealthy, and thus weak and sick. Also a big cash cow (heh) for the medical profit complex.
It's not an issue of veganism being "unnatural" or humans being omnivores; the issue is massive overconsumption of animal products and the bad quality thereof. A good comparison is tobacco. Back in the early days, people didn't smoke as much, and what they did smoke was pure leaf without all the chemicals and bullshit additives that are put in cigs today that make them much more massively unhealthy. In the past people really didn't eat as much meat or animal products because it was hard to hunt the beasts, then you had to make fire to cook it, and then there wasn't really a good way to store or preserve it, etc. Obviously modern technology has fixed all this for us and loaded them up with chemicals, preservatives, oils, hormones, etc. I'd be surprised if there's not already a forum post about the state of the American diet and how a large (heh) portion of America are total fat fucks.
@PorscheGuy: to say "Here’s the problem with veganism. There’s no 100% vegan indigenous culture anywhere. Veganism as practiced now is only possible due to the modern world we live in" is kind of absurd, because it's only in this modern world that we are able to literally fly to another country overnight, or literally get in our car and drive across the country in a matter of days. Modernity and technology has changed every facet of our daily lives and while there are some decent cases against veganism I think that one is pretty weak. A lot of the stuff we do today is not "natural." That doesn't make it wrong or bad or right or good. Just some food for thought for ya
I've made posts in slightly-above-neutral-but-not-rabid support of veganism on this forum before only because I've had some very positive exposure to it through people I know (I personally consume animal products myself). Obviously the liberals and SJW's have given it a bad name, but I will say that I've fucked vegans and non-vegans, and the vegans ate a plant based diet always had a healthier vibe and clean smelling breath/pussies. As with anything, moderation is key
Jordan Peterson is undeniably lean since going straight carnivore a year ago. He might not be telling the truth about his diet but given his depression, his daughter's illnesses, and all the philosophical shit he talks about ... it's a bit of a stretch to think he's lying. I don't doubt most famous vegans lie since telling people you're a vegan is a good way to virtue signal how much you care about the earth mother, and secretly eating meat (or an entire pharmacy to support your flagging thyroid and libido) while doing so is a good way to stay alive long enough to reap the social benefits. Color me cynical but I've never seen a drunk vegan who didn't try to grab a bite of my delicious late night fried lamb-only pita.
You are right that the meat/dairy industries are big money but Monsanto and big agra are even bigger money, with way bigger profit margins. Meat, even processed meat, has a short shelf life, requires many handlers and inputs, takes years to grow, much labor to tend and butcher, and is packaged sparingly. In comparison, a box of Wheaties is worth only a nickel in wheat but can sit on shelves forever, can afford to have pro athletes advertised on the box, and is in fact sold for five dollars a box. It's like comparing knitted doilies to cocaine.
On the bold, that's untrue.
People of the past ate less calories total (aside - they ate less and moved more, so they weren't fat), but a far greater proportion of their calories came from animal sources. America in the 1950s ate roughly 55-65% of their total daily intake from animal sources (fats and meat), while in the 1850s it was more like 70%+. Fur trappers used to regularly eat three to five pounds of meat daily. Shorter shelf life made for more frequent butchering, and since a majority of Americans lived on family farms at one point they rarely had trouble finding meat to eat on a daily basis. It's the political insanity of the present that's caused people with no connection to the past to believe that we've strayed from a perfect meat-less past.
Americans ate so much beef in the 1800s that babies were weaned on it, no breakfast was considered food without a t-bone steak, and visitors from other countries were shocked at how indifferent the farmers were to European-style intensive agriculture; so much meat was readily available there was no need whatsoever.
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A food budget published in the New York Tribune in 1851 allots two pounds of meat per day for a family of five. Even slaves at the turn of the 18th century were allocated an average of 150 pounds of meat a year. As Horowitz concludes, “These sources do give us some confidence in suggesting an average annual consumption of 150–200 pounds of meat per person in the nineteenth century.”
Compare that to today, just look around - people eat nothing but trash.
Consider the implications even if it were the case. Food and culture are linked - you don't think it's weird that there's not a huge plethora of meatless dishes in old recipe books? I can crack open any old Norwegian cookbook and find almost the entire thing is about fish, beef, pork and poultry, with the rest potatoes. Everything was cooked in or with lard and butter .. Jeeze man.
I'm not saying don't do veganism, or it's bad for everybody, or it can't achieve weight loss or whatever, but if it stops working for you or anybody they need nutrition for the sake of their lives lol. Too many people get seduced by the new and modern and it's often easier to double down and do serious damage once it becomes a deeply invested but flawed moral position because at that point jerry springer or a group intervention is needed haha.