Humans don't need meat for an optimal diet

"Humans have no known anatomical, physiological, or genetic adaptation to meat consumption."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMOjVYgYaG8
So it is fallacious to assume that we would need meat for an optimal diet.

“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” — Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association)

Have you ever considered this?:

We all claim to care about animals and to regard them as having at least some moral value. We all claim to agree that it’s wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals and--whatever disagreement we may have about when animal use is necessary—we all agree that the suffering and death of animals cannot be justified by human pleasure, amusement, or convenience. We condemn Michael Vick for dog fighting precisely because we feel strongly that any pleasure that Vick got from this activity could not possibly justify what he did.

So how can we justify the fact that we kill many billions of land animals and fish every year for food? However “humanely” we treat and kill these animals, the amount of animal suffering we cause is staggering. Yet no one maintains that animal foods are necessary for optimal health. Indeed, mounting empirical evidence points to animal foods being detrimental for human health. But however you evaluate that evidence, there can be no serious doubt that we can have excellent health with a vegan diet.

The best justification we have for the unimaginable amount of suffering and death that we impose on animals is that they taste good. We enjoy the taste of animal foods. But how is this any different from Michal Vick claiming that his dog fighting operation was justifiable because he enjoyed watching dogs fight? Vick liked sitting around a pit watching animals fight. We enjoy sitting around the summer barbecue pit roasting the corpses of animals who have had lives and deaths that are as bad, if not worse than, Vick’s dogs. What is the difference between Michael Vick and those of us who eat animal foods?
Quote from an excellent book: http://www.eatlikeyoucarebook.com/

Paleo-diet/LCHF, Western A. Prince foundation, arkeologi, hälsa, felaktig forskning

Hej Björn,
Skulle vilja bidra med lite information som jag hoppas kan vara til hjälp.
När det gäller dina påståenden om hälsa och om paleo-dieten:
Jag skulle vilja att du studerar följande föreläsning:
http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/03/det-ar-en-myt-att-manniskans-forfader.html (detta är mitt manus som jag skrev ner när jag lyssnade på en video-föreläsning)
och denna föreläsning: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/04/debunking-paleo-diet-paleolithic-diet.html av Christina Warinner [finns video-länkar i länkarna]

Båda baserar sig på fakta, inklusive fakta från peer-reviewade journaler, inklusive forskning från paleontolog Christina Warinner och Nathaniel Dominy. Båda visar att många påståenden som förespråkare av paleo-dieten gör är felaktiga både när det gäller arkeologiska fynd och påståenden om hälsa.

Jag skulle också vilja rekommendera forskningen av Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn: http://www.heartattackproof.com/ , som tydligt visar att en stärkelsebaserad vegansk diet helt och hållet kan bota hjärt-och kärlsjukdomar. Det finns ingen paleo-diet som kan göra detta, utan tvärtom höjer paleo-dieter kolestorol-värden och risk för hjärt-och kärlsjukdomar, inklusive hjärtattack.

Jag skulle gärna vilja att du studerade detta och gav dina kommentarer.
Western A. Prince-foundations litteratur används ofta för att förespråka paleo-dieten eller liknande dieter, vilket ofta innehåller information utan peer-reviewade referenser. Denna artikel visar många fel i denna stiftelses rekommendationer och studier: http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/the-truth-about-the-weston-price-foundation.html

Den historiska personen Western Prince rekommenderade en lakto-ovo-vegetarisk diet: “The basic foods should be the entire grains such as whole wheat, rye or oats, whole wheat and rye breads, wheat and oat cereals, oat-cake, dairy products, including milk and cheese, which should be used liberally, and marine foods.":
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/reflections-on-the-weston-a-price-foundation.html eftersom han fann väldigt hälsosamma populationer som åt denna diet. Nu idag vet vi att fisk inte är hälsosamt: http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2003nl/030200pufishisnothealthfood.htm och att mjölkprodukter är dåliga för vår hälsa: http://drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/mar/dairy.htm

Slutligen, Världens största hälso- och nutritionist-organisatin, American Dietetic Association, vidkänner i en peer-reviwad artikel att en diet utan djurprodukter är hälsosamma och innehåller all näring, och även kan förse med hälsofördelar i att förebygga och behandla vissa sjukdomar: http://www.eatright.org/About/Content.aspx?id=8357

Förutom det så har vi också det etiska argumentet för att inte utsätta djur för onödigt lidande och död, och det gör man när man konsumerar djurprodukter: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a-note-about-michael-vick/

Vegan reply to: 'I get sick if I don't eat meat'

Reply to people claiming that they get sick if they don't eat meat.

You get sick if you eat the wrong food. All animal foods are unhealthy. See research provided in previous post. You can be healthy eating a starch-based diet with vegetables and fruits. There is plenty of research showing this. Homo sapiens have a common biology and it is well-known that we don’t need any meat.

We have NONE genetic adaptations for meat consumption:
Humans have no known anatomical, physiological, or genetic adaptations to meat consumption.
We have many adaptations to plant consumption.
Vitamin C is found in plants. We can’t make it ourselves such as carnivores.

Or digestive tract is longer than carnivores, so that our food can stay in the body longer so we can digest plant matter. We need more surface area and we need more microbes.
Quote: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Debunking-the-Paleo-Diet-Christ;search%3Adebunking%20paleo
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“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” — Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association)"

Quote: http://abolitionistvegansociety.org/tavs-initiatives/tavs-articles/why-veganism/#.UdaSUm3BJxU

More health recommendations by Dr. John McDougall: http://www.drmcdougall.com/
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It is false that we need animal protein. It is even contradicted by the extremly conservative Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association). It is also contradicted by millions of healthy vegans. It is also contradicted by the research referred to in this documentary: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/

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Ethical argument:
Here’s the problem: at least 99.99% of animal use, which results in the suffering and death of animals, is unnecessary! At least 99.99% of animal use is for food, but humans can easily get their nutrition from plants.