It Ain't Natural, Folks

This statistic isn't one bit surprising. People aren't designed to be vegetarian or vegan. Their digestive systems reflect that reality. These animal "rights" people are crazy, and their half-baked "philosophy" makes NO sense whatsoever. In their demented world, animal "rights" people believe humans are just another animal with no special rights and considerations from other species, yet they advocate AR for "ethical" reasons, ethics being a concept unique to humans since animals operate entirely on instinct. People like the PETA crowd don't understand their guru, Peter Singer, espouses ideas that would fit in with Nazi Germany, such as the killing of disabled babies if their parents are not "happy" having "defective" children. He also has no qualms against bestiality.

In the old days before the hippie movement and the back-to-nature bullshit of the late 1960s or early 1970s, vegetarians and vegans were rightly regarded as weirdos and cranks. It's time the vast majority of people regard these people as the crackpots they are and marginalize them. The ones who commit violence in the name of "animals" need to go to prison as the terrorists they are.

Speaking of weirdos and cranks, Paul McCartney is doubtless suffering from years of dietary deficiency and marijuana abuse and is once again making a fool out of himself.

News, Etc.

Well, no shit: According to a survey in Psychology Today, some 75 percent of vegetarians eventually wind up eating meat.

Vegetarianism and veganism are not natural for humans. That's the bottom line.

The most common reason former vegetarians cited as the reason they returned to meat was declining health. One vegetarian turned omnivore put it very succinctly:

“I’ll take a dead cow over anemia any time.”

Other former vegetarians cited persistent physical weakness despite eating a whole foods, PETA recommended diet while others returned to meat at the recommendation of their doctor.

Another big reason that vegetarians returned to meat was due to irresistable cravings. This occurred even among long term vegetarians. Respondents talked about their protein cravings or how the smell of cooking bacon drove them crazy.

Funny how one of the reasons these people give for eschewing meat is they think they will be "healthier," but it turns out not to be the case.

The Psychology Today piece:

About a quarter of our ex-veggies described the hassles they said were associated with strict vegetarianism. They complained that it was difficult to find high quality organic vegetables in their local supermarkets at a reasonable price. Others began to resent the time it took to prepare meatless dishes, and some said they simply grew tired of the lifestyle.

A related reason for returning to meat consumption, one mentioned by 15% of our subjects, was that vegetarianism was taking a toll on their social life. The degree that vegetarianism and particularly moral veganism can screw up your day to day existence was nicely summed up in a New York Times op ed by the philosopher Gary Steiner titled, appropriately, "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable." In describing his personal experience with giving up the consumption of animal products, he wrote "What were once the most straightforward activities become a constant ordeal."

Not to mention it is an ordeal for people hosting parties to have to kowtow to the vegetarians.
_____

It's the demand side, stupid. That is what is wrong with our economic policies in a nutshell.
_____

Why can't American workers be like the British?

Miscellaneous News

Clear Lake, Iowa, commemorated 50 years since the fatal plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson, and Richie Valens.
_____

Tom Daschle doesn't want to be a distraction anymore and has withdrawn his nomination for HHS secretary.
_____

A vegetarian decides to give it up and eat meat again.

Of course this is heresy among the nutty animal rights people.
_____

Miscellaneous News

Somebody fix the Reno bike path for tree roots as well.

They're downright treacherous.

_____

You don't have to agree with the philosophy of this pro-industry group to realize the United Nations has gone absolutely batshit with the "environmental vegetarianism" as of late.

It's all quackery.

But that doesn't stop the nutjobs from trying to scare people into eating the way they do

Snip:

So unless someone comes up with a plan to drastically remake the human body, we are destined to keep eating meat. We have the teeth to tear it, and the digestive hydrochloric acid to dissolve it. What we don't have is two or three spare stomachs with which herbivores are blessed, in order to process all the vegetables we would need to eat instead.

Meat-eating was essential for human evolution, according to a 2003 paper by Katharine Milton, an anthropologist with the University of California in Berkeley.

About two million years ago our ancestors began to eat red meat on the African savanna, to supplement a vegetarian diet that had become too meagre. Without regular meat meals," she wrote, "it is highly unlikely that evolving humans could have achieved their unusually large and complex brain while simultaneously continuing their evolutionary trajectory as large, active and highly social primates."

Human children, in particular, needed dense nutrients to fuel their rapidly growing, unusually large brains.

University of New Mexico researchers, among others, have drawn the same conclusion, stating that this prehistoric dietary shift to meat led to the unique qualities of human existence, including increased brain capacities, an extended juvenile period in which to furnish the brain, and a much longer lifespan.

And:

In consistently disguising their political proposals behind pseudoscience, and pretending that the data dictates the policy, the environmental lobby not only demonstrates a remarkable lack of belief in scientific innovation - it also exposes its own dearth of political imagination. And when a senior figure at the IPCC starts proposing vegetarianism as ‘the most attractive opportunity’ in the attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an unholy alliance is achieved: the petty authoritarian instincts behind the politics of behaviour meet the miserabilist, anti-modernist instincts of the environmental lobby.

_____

A Reno writer has a new book out on the murder of Nevada controller Kathy Augustine, and of course I will get the book when I get the money.
_____

A Wacko Decides

he's going to force his beliefs down his students and finds himself in big trouble.

It doesn't matter whether the offender is a religious fanatic or a vegan fanatic; they are the same nuts falling out of the same tree.

I hate fascism of all kinds.

As the World Turns.

More evidence backing up my contention vegetarians are crackpots.
_____

The big story of the day, of course, is the terrible collapse of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

Reportedly there are three fatalities so far.
_____

The Getty Museum will return some antiquities back to Italy.
_____

A woman spent hours being trapped under a boulder on Mount Hood, a place which seems to have more than its share of mishaps and tragedies.

Megan Vansteenwyk didn't see the one-ton boulder roll onto her younger sister, Emily. She only heard her sister's "awful scream."

The sisters and two friends had been hiking a rocky stretch of Top Spur on Mount Hood on Tuesday when Emily Vansteenwyk fell and a 5-foot boulder crushed her right foot. The three ran to Emily's aid, but the rock was stuck.

Emily, 20, begged for help.

"She's my sister," said Megan, 21. "I have never been in more pain for somebody in my life."

The boulder had landed squarely on Emily's foot, flattening it like a pancake, Megan said. It would remain there for nearly five hours, as Megan and fellow hikers Adrian Inzerillo and Matthew Ellis tried to dislodge it.

How awful. Amazingly, Emily has no broken bones in her foot.
_____

As the World Turns.

A California doc is accused of hastening the death of a patient in order to harvest the patient's organs for transplant.
_____

A local deputy district attorney and reality show contest was found dead the other day.
_____

A few vegetarians have fallen off the turnip truck and are now eating the despised meat.
_____

Now it won't be just the WSJ editorial page that will be shit.
_____

For Some Reason

I came across this site about vegetarianism and found it interesting.

My belief is people can do whatever they want, but vegetarianism at bottom is a cult not unlike Scientology and the like. I believe it's another form of diet quackery, and many people fall prey to the many bogus claims on its behalf.

Not to mention there is no evidence at all it improves one's health (especially when it isn't natural anyway) by preventing disease or extends the lifespan, improves the environment, makes one more moral because of alleged concern for animals, and all of that other nonsense.

If vegetarians were honest, they would admit they are in the throes of a cult.

I have a nephew who has practiced more or less a vegetarian diet for over a decade. He has his wife doing it as well, but neither of them is a strict vegetarian. His brother has sworn off meat for some reason, and HIS wife is struggling to try and eat like he does. It won't work, of course, because restricting one's diet in this manner makes one crave the "forbidden" all the more.

Finally, the self-righteous tone of many vegetarians, especially of the PETA stripe, is no different than the religious fundies.

If there is anything worse than religious fascists, it's food fascists.

Vegetarians

would argue that stupidity, not the diet, was responsible for the baby's death.

But vegetarianism is mostly a quasi-religious lifestyle. It has less to do with health and science than it does with the zealotry their lifestyle is superior to everybody else's.

It isn't.