Posted 03 September 2015 - 01:05 PM
Yeah I wouldn't screw around with steroids too much. For reasons platypus said.
And otters are very cool, like all animals. So I don't like to kill and eat them because really I think I have no right. But I do kill and eat loads of plants and insects sometimes, so I suppose I'm a hypocrite. My main reason for striving to be a vegan is I just want to be a better person, and I suppose that sounds very quaint in these harsh, selfish times.
One reward for practicing a vegan lifestyle is you get to be labeled as "extreme" by nearly everyone. So I've learned to shut up about my eating habits -- until asked. And if you think about it, veganism is not extreme. What's extreme is the standard American diet where people are consuming meat at nearly every meal, polluted, horrible meat, often contaminated, derived through cruelty, a hodgepodge of many different badly treated animals all in one juicy burger, all the plain terrible information most people just don't want to accept. I figure that people who carelessly eat meat all day long should be required -- at least once -- to actually look into the face of the individual cow they're about to eat -- eye to eye -- and then shoot it in the head. Then, they should be required by law (haha) to cut up the carcass, prepare it, dispose of the parts of the animal they won't eat... Slaughter an animal and you'll learn it's an extreme act. It's taking a life, it's messy, dirty, possibly disease-spreading, it's difficult, it requires special tools, time, attention, preparation, proper disposal... So much. Meat eating is extreme, not plant eating. Growing some collards and blueberries in the dirt, then eating them, seems natural. As does foraging the public roadways for road-killed animals. Eating roadkill seems to me much more "paleo" (haha) than buying bulletproof coffee off the internet from some business man.
Is vegan the healthiest diet? No one knows. I'd say probably vegan is not the healthiest diet, some small amounts are probably good for your personal narrow life. But diet probably doesn't matter much for longevity. Eat a plant-based diet, and even a perfect calorie restricted plant-based, whole food, organic, lots of raw -- even that perfect diet with optimal nutrition may "only" get practitioners a few added years of life. Diet doesn't seem to matter much -- with the caveat that we steer clear of that worst of all possible diets -- the standard American one... Which no otter would eat. If otters had to eat Whoppers, then otters would starve.
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