Victor

[Guest guest]

Dear Doug,<br><br>I don't like to disappoint you,

but I am not opposed to eating meat.<br><br>I became

interested in raw food by learning that the Eskimos ate raw

meat and were healthy as a result.<br><br>I am not

opposed to eating meat on religious grounds.<br><br>I am

interested in eating raw food as a way to good

health.<br><br>I suppose you could call me a secular, raw fooder

who is happy to eat fish in very small

amounts.<br><br>And I think that very small, expensive cuts of lean,

red meat, grilled rare, are good for the health of

women.<br><br>I quite understand your horror of meat, and I

respect your decision not to eat it. Naturally, I expect

the same respect.<br><br>Is the world big enough for

both of us?<br><br>Victor.

[Guest guest]

Victor of course the world is big enough for both

of us, this is a great debate, look at the traffic

on this board. This board is becomeing a fun place

to go. <br><br>The reason I'm against eating meat

has nothing to do with religion, but because I

believe humans are physiologicly, vegetarians. Our

intestines are to long to digest meat, it rots and turns to

puss before it passes through. Our teeth are that of a

vegetarian, we have more molars, and lack the long and sharp

teeth of a carnivore. To facilitate grinding of

vegetable foods our jaw can move up and down, and side to

side, carnivors jaws only move up and down. Humans, as

with all vegitarians have a refined lip and pouchy

cheek stucture. Carnivors have no lip and no pouchy

cheek structure. The shape of the face of a carnivore

allows it to dig into a carcass and rip out the

entrials. We do not have the properly shaped face to do

this. All vegitarian animals drink water by suction,

all carnivors drink by lifting water into the mouth

with their tongue. If you are thinking perhaps humans

are omnivores, what we call carnivores are actually

omnivores, the first thing they eat is the contents of the

intestins, which are vegetables. Carnivorous animals are

imune to Salmonella.<br><br> We also are not capable of

killing an animal without technology. All carnivorous

animals can kill alone, and without tools. If you put a

bunny and a banana in a crib with a baby, the baby will

eat the banana and play with the bunny. The main

reason people eat meat is because it is neatly packaged

for us, if we had to hunt it down, kill it, and eat

it raw, where it falls, there would be a lot more

vegitarians.<br><br>Eskimos although they had lower risk to heart disease,

and cholestoral, were not remarkably healthy, they

did not have extended life spans. Just because people

can live on certain foods doesn't mean that is the

optimum diet. I don't think small amounts of cooked meat

would harm you, just as small amounts of any toxic food

wouldn't harm you, but I don't see any way it could be

good for you. Even rare meat is cooked, the enzymes in

meat are killed at lower tempratures than veggies.

Under 110 degrees F. once the meat is cooked, the

nutriants and minerals become biologicly unavalible to us,

it is enzymes that catalyze the nutriants.<br><br>

If you are concerned about Iron in meat, (hence the

recomendation to women)meat is not a good source, because iron

needs vitamin C to be properly obsorbed. Spinach, peas,

beans, dandelions, and kale, all contain adequate iron

and vtamin C. <br><br>man, this was a long

one.<br>Doug