There weren't so many farmed haggii to be had in the old days!
The annual cull of wild Haggii Scoticus Vulgaris was often hampered by extreme weather, during which the haggs and their haglets sheltered in their burrows deep under the snow where their thick subcutaneous fat layer kept them warm.
Consequently, it was impossible to drive the haggii towards the strategically placed capture nets.
The shortage of genuine wild haggii led to the cancellation of many Burns Suppers and to the sight of burly, kilted Scotsmen weeping into their Whyte & MacKays!
By far the most common artifacts left behind by our distant forefathers is hunting weapons and tools like flint knives,arrow heads and spear heads.
They can be relaxed and that's good for you but I have no faith in American paediatricians. Different world, different culture.
In Italy over the last few years there have been a lot cases of seriously sick children with severe deficiencies because of the poor diet imposed by their vegan parents. We already have the Mediterranean diet that is a largely vegetable based diet and works just fine. Environmental problems have nothing to do with farming here. More and more people live 100 years or more and none of them is vegan in my knowledge. Vegan people in Italy represent some 2-3% of the population and most of them have philosophical issues (with themselves) which every single time there is a debate become fundamentalism, will to prevail over the others and impose their way of thinking. That's how it is veganism in Italy. Those who don't have philosophical problems simply cannot eat meat because have a related disease.
Obese people simply have a bad diet. It has nothing to do with eating meat. Diet is about balance and the balance is age dependent. It is a simple as that.
I am vegan 3-4 days a week so I know what it is about and I have no problem with vegans but I will never be vegan for the simple reason that I like (good) meat. There is no theory that can change my mind because I don't have any philosophical problem with killing animals for eating and, thanks God, I don't have any health problem.
The develop of "meat in a lab" could change things markedly - if meat could be grown without animal suffering - would some vegans choose to eat it, based on personal preference?
Humans have completely lost touch with how they eat. I was very sick 2 years ago and conventional doctors were not helping at all. I went to a naturopath, she was convinced I had a food allergy (asthma symptoms, fatigue etc). I laughed at her, but after some scientific hair testing (and once I eliminated those indicated foods) I am feeling much better now.
Doctors should get away from their drug-company sponsored approach of over-medicating and instead ask the first question that a vet asks in the case of illness: "what did he last eat?"
People scoff at gluten allergies etc but most have no idea that food now is hybridised and GM'd to the point where it only resembles food as it once was. Modern bread contains far more gluten than it used too (not counting pesticide residue and mutated DNA strands). Plus "instant" type foods are basically poison for your body.
I wish I could stop eating meat but there are many things worse for your body - soy is terrible for supressing thyroid function and beans have large amounts of allergy-causing lectins which are incredibly bad for you.
Humans have completely lost touch with how they eat. I was very sick 2 years ago and conventional doctors were not helping at all. I went to a naturopath, she was convinced I had a food allergy (asthma symptoms, fatigue etc). I laughed at her, but after some scientific hair testing (and once I eliminated those indicated foods) I am feeling much better now.
Doctors should get away from their drug-company sponsored approach of over-medicating and instead ask the first question that a vet asks in the case of illness: "what did he last eat?"
People scoff at gluten allergies etc but most have no idea that food now is hybridised and GM'd to the point where it only resembles food as it once was. Modern bread contains far more gluten than it used too (not counting pesticide residue and mutated DNA strands). Plus "instant" type foods are basically poison for your body.
I wish I could stop eating meat but there are many things worse for your body - soy is terrible for supressing thyroid function and beans have large amounts of allergy-causing lectins which are incredibly bad for you.
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My mom said it was cornbread and onions every day on the farm in Italy, except for Easter Sunday when they each got 2 eggs for breakfast. And they were better off than most because my grandfather collected a pension. A family friend said it was worse in Italian cities, he had to rummage through garbage to find food.
There are absolutely cases where vegan parents provide poor nutrition to their children. But I have to believe trained pediatricians rather than drawing general conclusions from a small number of well-publicized cases.
Childhood obesity rates in Italy are terrible, though, so the 'med diet' either isn't that great or isn't widely followed.
Childhood obesity rates in Italy are terrible, though, so the 'med diet' either isn't that great or isn't widely followed.
Simply yes.
The only remaining question is to what degree we are carnivores as part of the omnivore existance.
This may be based on anecdotal evidence, but it appears to me that it is much easier to provide insufficient nutritionally balanced diet to an infant with a vegetarian diet than with a mixed/omnivore diet.
With an omnivore diet it is easier to balance the amino acids necessary for complimentary protein synthesis than with a vegetarian diet. vitamins withstanding.
With an omnivore diet it is easier to balance the amino acids necessary for complimentary protein synthesis than with a vegetarian diet. vitamins withstanding.
They don't rot? 😉 or something else maybe....the knives were for whittling and the things that look like arrow and spear heads are in fact tools for boring holes in fruit and vegetables to make musical instruments
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