Big meat study links red meat diet to cancer

[Lorien]

thread in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1549679

[Beaverhausen]

1. That thread is a riot!

all the meat eaters don't want to believe it.

[Warpy]

5. HAHAHA! I love taking them all on when I'm in the mood

and rubbing their noses in the fact that NO, we are NOT natural meat eaters.

We have the wrong dentition, more suited to tearing through the outer skin of fruit and grinding leaves and grains than tearing through the tough hide of an animal and shredding the raw flesh underneath.

We have the wrong digestive system, true meat eaters have a very short gut that eliminates raw meat contaminated with environmental bacteria before it can make them sick; ours is very long, much more suited to vegetable foodstuffs. If we don't cook our meat first, we tend to get sick from it; if we don't cook our meat first, we can't chew it unless it's been preground.

Raw meat doesn't even look or smell appetizing to most of us, even when we pride ourselves on being carnivores. It doesn't begin to look particularly edible until we've changed its nature by cooking it, preferably well seasoned and with a nice sauce.

That our forebears altered meat so they could manage to eat it without killing themselves in environments poor in vegetable food is just proof of their genius. That we are not naturally geared towards eating meat in its natural, uncooked, fresh killed and hide covered state is indisputable.

[flvegan]

2. And only 1 anti-PETA post. This HAS to be a record.

I did note that lots of folks may well be thinking more about what exactly they consume. That's a good thing.

[livinginphotographs]

3. My analogy-of-the-night....

"So they say smoking causes cancer? Well, everything causes cancer. Since it's unavoidable to smoke, why worry about it?"

"So they say jumping off a 50-story building can kill you? Well, these days, anything can kill you, so to hell with the studies, keep jumping off those buildings and quit worrying about it!"

[shockra]

4. Taser analogy.

Tasers don't really hurt you. I get tasered all the time!