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174 sats \ 8 replies \ @Coinsreporter 8 Oct \ on: There's currently a propaganda campaign against low-carb diets conspiracy
I disagree a little. I've never come across any post that says Carnivore diet is bad for health or should not be in our plate. It's just that those who are pro vegan always profess about the vegan diet being better. It's the same like you're saying with this article that a carnivore diet is better.
So, technically both sides seem biased here. I'd say a better balanced diet is something that a man should always aim for. It should also be taken into consideration that every body is different. Your food requirements may differ from others.
Carnivore vs vegan is a bullshit fight. The propoganda, there's no propoganda.
Are you able to provide an example of another species whereby individuals of that species thrive on radically different diets? I'm personally not aware of another species that demonstrates this behaviour. I believe that people on plant based diets are denying their bodies essential nutrition. Biological evidence seems to indicate that humans should prioritise the consumption of fatty red meat first, whilst consuming limited plants and honey from time to time. Any deviation from this is likely suboptimal. If you are eating a plant based diet, and appear to be thriving, then that's because our baseline is the food pyramid which includes highly processed foods and refined grains, not because of omitting red meat
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Agree. There aren't other species that have wildly different OPTIMAL diets, who need completely different things (like some of the species must have plants only, and the others thrive only on meat).
I think Dr. Ken Berry has a good piece on this topic. Also that's why his youtube channel is called the Proper Human Diet. He believes (and I agree) that animal based is indeed the ONE proper human diet, though we can survive on others. He sure has some great videos.
One thing I do notice at the budget grocery stores. Most people have carts filled with trashy junk food, usually. And they look it - they're often unhealthy looking and overweight or obese, and sadly, some of them can't even walk with any kind of energy, and are limping.
But there are some where you can see - they have lots of lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. And they ARE much more slender and healthy looking.
That was me, before starting carnivore. Tons of fruits and vegetables, and if you can stay fairly strict with that (basically a "whole foods" diet with no junk food), you won't be overweight, and you'll be better off than 95% of people.
However, after switching to carnivore, so many aspects of my health quickly improved so dramatically that I'm on this for good now.
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I'll offer slight push back (because you're mostly correct). It's entirely possible for vegans to not profess their diet to be the healthiest. While many do profess that, veganism is morality not nutrition. That means a vegan could hypothetically agree that carnivore is the healthiest diet, while continuing eating a plant-based diet.
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I've been exposed to the below argument about the morality of veganism since reading up on the carnivore diet.
It's that going by the number of animals killed, for farming - it's far higher than the number killed, by actually slaughtering and eating them.
In other words the animal life (mice, rabbits, deer, etc) that die as a result of farming is much, much higher than the animal life killed to butcher for meat.
Food for thought.
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I'm aware of that argument and it's based on the animals killed in the production of major field crops. The problem with that argument is that major field crops are not primarily produced for human consumption, but rather for animal feed. That means all of those additional animal deaths actually go on the meat side of the ledger.
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Good point. So then, if you were eating grass fed/grass finished beef, you'd be golden? Or if you were eating wild game?
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You wouldn't be golden (from a vegan perspective), but you'd only have the animals you ate on your ledger.
This is one reason why I do think carnivore is often a more ethical choice for people. I've noticed that those who go carnivore tend to also avoid factory farmed meats, which are by far the worst from a moral standpoint.
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Agreed. I think it should be important to promote and practice simply listening to your body and adjusting accordingly. People’s bodies react differently to different shit. Some people should likely eat a more veggie heavy diet and some people should likely eat a meat heavy diet.
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