meat is not the only source of protein.

[Guest guest]

I just to add my 2cents to this topic. A few months ago I went to

hear the mad cowboy at Yale university. He is the man that was sued

with Oprah by the meat industry. He stated that in May 2008 a young

woman died of mad cow disease and if anyone wants to go to Youtube and

see that there are several recent reports of mad cows in spain, canada

etc. My point being that its prob true that we do need some animal

protein, I dont believe we are consuming our grandparents' meat. As

we all know in this forum , there are forms of corruption that are

hard to stomach. I am a quasi vegan for that reason but I do consume

raw milk from a farm 5 mins away and i do have some eggs from local

hens or at least organic from trader joes. I also eat seeeds,nuts,

legumes.

I hope people in here dont think that Mcd is that meat that they

need or arsenic chicken from kentucky etc. We are being bombared with

toxins from many places. Know your source. Life is more complicated

now than 20 years ago unfortunately.

Vivian

[Guest guest]

>

> I just to add my 2cents to this topic. A few months ago I went to

> hear the mad cowboy at Yale university. He is the man that was sued

> with Oprah by the meat industry. He stated that in May 2008 a young

> woman died of mad cow disease and if anyone wants to go to Youtube and

> see that there are several recent reports of mad cows in spain, canada

> etc. My point being that its prob true that we do need some animal

> protein, I dont believe we are consuming our grandparents' meat. As

> we all know in this forum , there are forms of corruption that are

> hard to stomach. I am a quasi vegan for that reason but I do consume

> raw milk from a farm 5 mins away and i do have some eggs from local

> hens or at least organic from trader joes. I also eat seeeds,nuts,

> legumes.

> I hope people in here dont think that Mcd is that meat that they

> need or arsenic chicken from kentucky etc. We are being bombared with

> toxins from many places. Know your source. Life is more complicated

> now than 20 years ago unfortunately.

Or at least we;re 20 years older and finally have the sense to recognize that!

Lest my general commentary be misconstrued, if you DON " T have a sulfur food

problem

and want to be vegetarian, there is no problem getting enough protein by eating

dairy and

eggs.

It does become more difficult if you are vegan, AND have a sulfur food problem,

and

especially if you have a high protein requirement due to health issues (even a

sulfur food

tolerant vegan with high protein requirements has trouble).

For some people a vegetarian or vegan diet is wonderfully helpful and in fact

therapeutic -

before all the nasty psych meds it used to be used in some insane asylums and

was quite

beneficial to certain types of patients. It is also very good for certain

'regular' health

problems, for example gout (which you can get from lead poisoning).

The real issue is to steer your way past incompetence (ADA, AMA mainstream

views) and

moralism to find a diet that really works for your body.

>

> Vivian

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