Out of the Blue

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Re: Out of the Blue Feb 4, 2020, 06:51
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Again, nope.

You do you...but rabbit food isn't going to wholly replace meat at my table.

Among the things a plant based diet cannot do is provide conjugated linoleic acid, heme iron, and preformed B12. You can get non-heme iron and pro-formed B12 from your rabbit chow but your body's conversion of those two to the previous (which it really needs) is incredibly inefficient and wasteful, often leading to large amounts of it being flushed out of your body before the conversion happens.

There are also legitimate concerns that people who do go full vegetarian run the risk of becoming anemic, especially if they are unaware that they are genetically predisposed to anemia.

The same, tired song and tap dance I have heard in the past about taking vitamins and just eating more rabbit chow to address that has long been shot down so there's no need to debate them here.

The reality is that the human body requires a balanced diet of both meat and vegetables and to disrupt that balance in favor of some idiosyncratic, smug sense of superiority is foolish.

I am not denying that we live in a country where the balance is all out of whack, it certainly is, but the cureall isn't to simply say "eat spinach and lentils".
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

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