eating meat is not natural

[Guest guest]

I'm still scraping my jaw off the floor.

Alternet has an article, " Eating Meat is Not Natural "

(http://www.alternet.org/story/140643/eating_meat_is_not_natural/

), that I think deserves a much more eloquent rebuttal than I can

muster (what with multiple grant and report deadlines in the next few

weeks). Any takers?

-jennifer

[Guest guest]

Hmmm, the article mentions how perfectly our hands are designed to pick

fruit and vegetables as opposed to catching and shredding and eating

prey. But she doesn't mention how relatively easy it is for those same

fingers to catch a chicken (or some other fowl), wring its neck, pluck

its feathers and hold it over a fire. Same with a fish (which a human

can even eat raw easily). She certainly can't use her arguments to apply

to all meat. This is my favorite ridiculous statement. " Says Dr.

C. , editor of the American Journal of Cardiology, “Although we

think we are, and we act as if we are, human beings are not natural

carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us,

because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was

never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.”

B.