Is eating meat, or maybe eating too much meat bad for you?

[methodman535]

Taken from Stanley Burrough's "The Master Cleanse":

An explanation of the cause of an ulcer is necessary at this point. There is a sodium coating covering
the entire inside wall of the stomach, which, if it remains intact, will prevent the digestive juices from
digesting the stomach itself. However, when any form of flesh food enters the stomach, the meat
attracts the sodium in the same way as the walls of the stomach. Some of the sodium is drawn from the
walls and gathers around the meat, thus preventing the digestion of the meat in the stomach and at the
same time depleting the sodium on the walls of the stomach.
As one continues to eat meat and a deficiency of sodium in the diet occurs, the sodium lining is not being
replaced on the walls of the stomach. The digestive juices then start digesting the stomach, producing
what we call an ulcer. When this occurs, all orthodox methods to heal the ulcer fail completely.
Sometimes the meat can remain in the stomach for two or more hours and begin to ferment and spoil.
To be broken down and digested it must pass on into the small intestine. All forms of meat take longer to
digest than fruit and vegetables do. Chicken and other fowl take the longest of all. Just because meat is
already a form of flesh, it does not follow that it is readily usable by our bodies. In fact, just the reverse
is true.



When one considers that flesh foods of all kinds are extremely toxic, it becomes apparent that they are
an extremely undesirable form of nourishment. In the eating of meat, one must take into account all of
our eliminative organs. They are made primarily to take care of our own wastes. When we add animal
flesh, containing the wastes of its cells (or drugs and other unusable material), extra work is required of
these organs and various forms of trouble will eventually develop.
Remember that all solid food must be broken down into a liquid form to be carried by the blood before it
can nourish the body. Flesh foods of all kinds (including fish) take much longer to reach this state and
are less useful to the body than fruit, vegetable, and seeds.

[methodman535]

Then he goes at it again, this time a bit more radical:

Often the question is asked about the need for amino acids, and animal protein foods. The need is
highly exaggerated, as only 16% of our body is protein. The answer to the question is very simple. We
first need to understand that pure protein is primarily nitrogen, with oxygen, hydrogen and some carbon.
We all know we get a large share of our oxygen and hydrogen needs from the air along with some
carbon. There is four times the amount of nitrogen in the same air as there is oxygen, hydrogen and
carbon combined. Since we are able to utilize and assimilate a large amount of our needs of these
elements into our bodies we are able to assimilate and build the nitrogen also into our bodies as protein.
This is done by natural bacteria action, which is capable of converting it to our use.
From the combination of the best of foods and clean air we are able to create our own amino acids, just
as well as the animals do. We never try to feed amino acids to the animals. Thus we are able to
eliminate the need for toxic dead animal flesh and have no further need to worry about our constant
source of protein. Eat only the best variety of fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, seeds and sprouted seeds
for a further complete source of protein.


Many people believe that eating meat gives them strength. If this is so, then why are the strongest
animals in the world vegetarians? Did you ever stop to think that the animals you do eat are
vegetarians? Where did they get their strength? All the meat-eating animals find it necessary to sleep
16 to 1 hours a daily because of excess toxins. The meat-eating animals live a very short life. God has
supplied such a bountiful supply of fresh, wholesome food that there is never a need to kill an animal for
its more toxic flesh in our modern civilization.

[Ragga_NZ]

Meat is good...it tastes nice. Don't have too much tho or u'll get the colon cancer (NZ has one of the highest rates apparently so i best be careful). It's a good point tho bout the veggie eating animals being strong ass mo fo's...something to ponder bout i guess

[pkannan]

i would have to say i that eating everything in controlled portions is key, along with exercise to good health.
eating meat however has become more unhealthy recently (atleast i feel) due to the unnatural method of farming the animals. They are given all sorts of hormones and unnatural feed and such although the ramifications(healthwise) are not fully disclosed yet.

But from an ethical stand point i believe the eating of meat is wrong. i believe it takes like 4kg grain per 1kg of beef. that is a waste of perfectly good grain it seems to me. that seems like an ineffecient way to deal with the starvation issue that has plagued our planet. also i believe that another ethical issue is that animals feel pain and so their killing for food seems somewhat barbaric. i'm not really up to date on the animals feeling pain bit, but i believe a very good source (if you wanna know more) would be a Peter Singer (Professor of Ethics at Princeton) website.

[Sphinx7]

eye dont fuck with swine, mothfuckers knew it centuries ago
then again in the 40's

speaking of diets/foods...what happened to Bill
who thinks we are carnivores

[methodman535]

Bill is now known as ThreeFiddy.