Re: [NN]Food Cravings [was Help me refute this vegetarian argument if possible]

[Guest guest]

Interesting, the craving certain foods thing. I saw a show the other day about

some guy adrift in the ocean for over two months. After he ran out of rations

he started catching fish and ate the raw flesh only and did really badly and was

going down hill until he listened to his cravings and started eating the eyes

and all the insides except the stomach. By the time he was rescued, he was

healthier than he had ever been. How does our brain know all this stuff?

Re: Help me refute this vegetarian argument if possible

Thanks for the replies so far.

He's a ovo vegetarian who avoids soy and eats sprouted wheat bread,

beans, organic greens for salads, olive oil and some fruits and

organic spritzers as a treat. He used to be vegan (for 7 years) but

despite supplementing with B12 and getting enough protein he had

memory loss, lowered libido and fatigue. He started to crave eggs

badly so he added them to his diet and within a week all of the main

issues improved and it was like he was a different person! He eats

this way for 'spiritual reasons' he says (he's not religious), and

environmental reasons and he doesn't want to eat meat unless

absolutely necessary for his health. He doesn't eat fermented foods.

He used to eat coconut oil at my suggestion but dropped it. His health

still isn't good, he gets sick a lot with colds and flus but he says

he was sicker as a young person even though he lived in the country

and ate pasture fed dairy, eggs from his grandmother's chickens and

some meat.

The question I have is that although you can feed people cheaply with

grain that doesn't confer health. If animals were raised on grass and

the growing of grain was drastically reduced or eliminated, how would

that impact the environment? The world population is enormous now, of

course, so this is a tricky thing but I see only misery if people were

to go without animal foods. Without eggs he is very ill, for example.