Lea Michele Defends Vegan Diet: Have You Ever Tried Veganism?

I'm vegetarian, but my roommates are vegan, I don't even notice when I go days without using animal products. The only animal products I normally use are butter and the milk I put in my lattes, apart from that I don't normally eat eggs much, or use that much cheese. I'm not vegan because of practical reasons, it's hard in some parts of the world to get animal product free food and I tend to travel a lot.

I dislike the ideal some (Mostly an annoying minority) omnivores have against being vegetarian, firstly they call themselves "carnivores" which is untrue, because as humans if we were strictly carnivores we'd die pretty quickly or develop a lot of health problems, while we can be perfectly healthy as vegetarians proving that we still are closer to our herbivore species then carnivores, we're a bit of scavengers actually, like ravens or crows, we can eat whatever but that doesn't mean we should eat just whatever. Also this problem is mostly among men, but many men won't consider vegetarianism because they believe it makes them unmanly or a sissy for some reason, I mean really, is eating meat what defines you as a man? If you truly believe that eating meat is somehow manly then I have to question your real masculinity and what you're trying prove.

Also the ones that go on about vegetarians dying in the wild or how they themselves are better hunters for eating meat, really? Most of these people who make this claim have never gone hunting in their lives before, do you think that comfortably driving to the super market and picking up a readily packed piece of meat that has been spiced and cut and manufactured for you already and the animal has been slaughtered in some faraway factory which you've never heard about and you have no idea how the animal died or what kind of life it had or what kind of chemicals it ingested, counts as hunting?

Seriously, to those making claims that they are super manly carnivores who are great hunters for eating meat, just stop... unless you're joking, it really is starting to look kind of pathetic.

I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans, except the ones who argue that humans could never be "carnivores."

"because as humans if we were strictly carnivores we'd die pretty quickly or develop a lot of health problems, while we can be perfectly healthy as vegetarians proving that we still are closer to our herbivore species then carnivores,"

So, I will make a small argument here... simply to be devil's advocate for the omnivores.
The Inuit ate, basically, as dogs do. Most of their intake was meat, and less than 2% of their food was fruits, vegetables, or grains. The human body is marvelously adaptable. Ones who started eating more carbs, vegetables, fruit, and refined sugars, actually became very unhealthy and overweight.

"To settle the matter once and for all, Stefansson and a colleague lived on a meat-only diet for one year under medical supervision at New York's Bellevue Hospital, starting in February 1928. The two ate between 100 and 140 grams of protein a day, the balance of their calories coming from fat, yet they remained scurvy free. Later in life Stefansson became a strong advocate of a high-meat diet even if you didn't live in the arctic; he professed to enjoy improved health, reduced weight, etc, from meals consisting of coffee, the occasional grapefruit, and a nice steak, presumably rare. Doesn't sound half bad, and one might note that until recently the Inuit rarely suffered from atherosclerosis and other Western ailments."
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