Are vegetarians evil or simply naïve?

Vegetarianism, as a way of life, has been around for millennia – with relatively few adherents. Something less than 5% of the population practice vegetarianism. They believe that they're doing the world a favor and investing for something of significant value by abstaining from meat. To them, this kind of investment is so much better than any of the best life insurance policy out there. Many of these vegetarians are allied with left-wing causes and even work in the news media, which they have used to promulgate the notion that a vegetarian way of life is healthier. Not surprisingly The Vegetarian Society has capitalised on these reports using them to persuade members of the lay public that their way is better for the animals, the environment, and, not least, for human health – and numbers are growing. Recently, they have been spreading more lies and propaganda even proclaiming that vegetarians are smarter than the rest of us!

Vegetarianism is unnatural for homo sapiens. We were designed to eat an omnivorous diet, to do otherwise is unwise and unhealthy. While limiting ones intake of red meat and foods which contain high amounts of cholesterol is a good idea, eliminating animal protein from ones diet is folly. When misguided vegetarian and vegan parents do this to their children, it is downright evil.

Seeds, the staples such as rice, wheat, maize and beans, play an important part in our lives today. All of them must be cooked before we can eat them in any quantity. Seeds and berries are a plant's reproductive system. Many are designed to attract animals to eat them but there would be little point in this if the seeds were digested. No, they are indigestible – deliberately, designed to pass through the animal to be defecated and take root elsewhere. Two means only are available to make them digestible: cooking and grinding.

About half our brain and nervous system is composed of complicated, long-chain, fatty acid molecules that are also needed by the walls of our blood vessels. Without them we cannot develop normally. These fatty acids do not occur in plants. Fatty acids in a simpler form do but they must be converted into the long-chain molecules by animals – which is a slow, time-consuming process. This is where the herbivores come in. Over the year, they convert the simple fatty acids found in grasses and seeds into intermediate, more complicated forms that we can convert into the ones that we need.

Our brain is considerably larger than that of any ape. Looking back at the fossil record from early hominids to modern man, we see a quite remarkable increase in brain size. This expansion needed large quantities of the right fatty acids before it could have occurred. It could never have occurred if our ancestors had not eaten meat. Human milk contains the fatty acids needed for large brain development – cow's milk does not. It is no coincidence that in relative terms, our brain is some fifty times the size of a cow's.

Vegetarian parents do damage to their children that will take generations to repair - the effects and damage of a vegetarian diet will be observed in the intellectual and physical development in the grandchildren of the vegan/vegetarian parents!

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