Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 Only due to tradition. It is possible to live of a raw diet. You need to tackle the grass root reasons. Why do people cook meat? It's for a very different reason why people cook vegetables. To kill pathogens and lethal bacteria that human bodies can't deal with, like a true carnivore could. Cooking vegetables and " modern " grains improves the nutritional quality of them (not overcooking of course). Most beans are near indigestible without cooking, but a lot of beans and legumes are eaten raw. Cooking improves vegetables' nutrition, cooking makes meat " safe " for our herbivorous bodies to digest. We are not omnivore by body design, but by our so called " intelligence " to prepare food and cook it. The aborigines in QLD take toxic plant food and cook it thoroughly, leave it in a stream for days and repeat this process until the food is palatable (up to 9 times). To make your point, tell your friend you'll be willing to leave any veggie of you choice out in the sun for 5 days, then eat it. Just so long as she does the same thing with any meat of her choice. Then arrange an ambulance in advance. RM Sue Grayson [suegrayson] 14 June 2001 11:04 vegan-network [100% veg*n ] Re: 20 Questions Y'know my 'friends' in college started asking me all these pathetic questions in response to my t-shirt. I said if it's natural to eat meat then why do we have to cook it? One fo my friends came up with a good point, don't i cook most of my food. What would everyone else say to this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2001 Report Share Posted June 15, 2001 vegan-network, " Mccartney, Rowan (R.N.) " <rmccar14@v...> wrote: > Cooking vegetables and " modern " grains improves the nutritional quality of > them (not overcooking of course). Why do you think that cooking vegetables improves the nutritional quality? I think you might have actually been a little misinformed on this one. Cooking destroys nutrients and most especially the enzymes essential for life. >We are not omnivore by body design, I agree. If we were naturally designed to eat meat we would have 20/20 vision, and a different style of face, teeth, and body that enabled us to hunt our prey, attacking and rip the flesh consuming it raw. All animals that consume other animals have senses that prepare them for animal consumption. If we consider that most people have not got the 'stomach' to go out and kill the animals that they consumed, and would be sickened at the sight and smell of an abortoir, then we can start to understand the true nature of things. Any natural carnivore would not have a problem with killing its own animals and ripping into them instinctively, and would be delighted upon entering an abortior. I doubt that most people that suspiciously question the vegan diet would do any of this. Most cowardly I think, considering. peace to all Anastasia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2001 Report Share Posted June 15, 2001 vegan-network, " Mccartney, Rowan (R.N.) " <rmccar14@v...> wrote: > Cooking vegetables and " modern " grains improves the nutritional quality of > them (not overcooking of course). Why do you think that cooking vegetables improves the nutritional quality? I think you might have actually been a little misinformed on this one. Cooking destroys nutrients and most especially the enzymes essential for life. >We are not omnivore by body design, I agree. If we were naturally designed to eat meat we would have 20/20 vision, and a different style of face, teeth, and body that enabled us to hunt our prey, attacking and rip the flesh consuming it raw. All animals that consume other animals have senses that prepare them for animal consumption. If we consider that most people have not got the 'stomach' to go out and kill the animals that they consumed, and would be sickened at the sight and smell of an abortoir, then we can start to understand the true nature of things. Any natural carnivore would not have a problem with killing its own animals and ripping into them instinctively, and would be delighted upon entering an abortior. I doubt that most people that suspiciously question the vegan diet would do any of this. Most cowardly I think, considering. peace to all Anastasia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2001 Report Share Posted June 15, 2001 vegan-network, " Mccartney, Rowan (R.N.) " <rmccar14@v...> wrote: > Cooking vegetables and " modern " grains improves the nutritional quality of > them (not overcooking of course). Why do you think that cooking veg improves the nutritional quality? I have the understanding that it destroys nutrition, and most importantly kills life sustaining enzymes. > We are not omnivore by body design, but by our so called > " intelligence " to prepare food and cook it I agree. If we were designed to eat meat we would be like all the other carnivorous animals on this planet, who hunt and kill their own prey ripping throught the flesh and consuming it in its raw natural state. They have 20/20 vision and bodies that are designed to hunt and have acute hearing to detect it, with teeth that rip through flesh, and physiology the enables proper digestion of this food. I doubt that most of the people that criticize the vegan diet would kill their own meat, and would be sickened at the sight and smell of an abortoir. We are not equipt with the insticts to kill and then devour animals, nor the bodies to digest them. An animal designed to eat meat will kill with pleasure, and would be delighted at the senses experienced in an abortoir! It is rather cowardly that so many people consume meat but couldn't stomach the though of killing it themselves, don't you think! peace from Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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