Other considerations. Vegetarians vs. Meat eaters

Other considerations. Vegetarians vs. meat eaters

The controversy continues. Should I be a vegetarian or should I eat meat? Here are a couple other consideration to take into account.

1. Availability: You WILL eat what’s available if that’s all that is available. Furthermore you’ll actually get to like it.

My own story is testament to that. In three months I put on thirty pounds and was in the best shape of my life - on Army chow. Army chow is deserving, or at least it was at that time, of its bad reputation. In the jungle we ate C-rations and dehydrated food. On the firebase we ate mostly meat and potatoes. Tons of starchy carbohydrates. Absolutely NO raw food. It was all dead and had been thoroughly cooked.

I put on 30 pounds and was in the best shape of my life on that food. I was physically perfect and mentally sharp. I ate what was available

Another example comes from the concentration camps of WW II. One of the survivors would eat the scraps everyone else threw away. Specifically the crust of the bread. He survived, many of the others didn’t. He ate what was available.

Another example comes from the third world. You will never forget the sight of a true malnutrition victim. Never. The first one I saw was about 4 years old. Distended belly, flies and bugs all over him. It was terrible. He would eat anything given to him. You know, what was available.

How does that work? If the vegetarians are right I should be dead because I ate no raw food. Yet I was in the best shape in my life. The POW in WW II ate breadcrumbs and even then he almost died but he DID make it. And I can assure you, the truly malnourished don’t care what they eat.

2. Necessity levels: If necessity levels are high enough your body will make what it needs from whatever you feed it. In the war necessity levels were very high. My body took what was available and made sure I was able to function at the elevated levels necessary to survive the war. Thus, I was in perfect physical shape after a few months in the jungle.

Necessity levels were high and I ate what was available. Results? - Perfect physical fitness.

Of course that flies in the face of any and all supposed diet regimes. Especially the vegetarian ones. But I’m still here so there HAS to be something to it.

So, apparently there IS a mental side to it. Or spiritual side, whatever you want to call it.

Availability and necessity levels need to be taken into account.

Doc Sutter
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