Once a vegetarian, always a vegetarian?

Once a vegetarian, always a vegetarian?

Not necessarily, it seems that for many people following a vegetarian diet, the nutrition is so poor that they must return to being meat eaters or remain sick. Even the Dalai Lama, who I deeply respect, frequently and unduly receives criticism from some in the vegetarian community for continuing to eat meat while promoting non-violence. A former vegetarian, he started eating small amounts of animal flesh on the advice on a doctor after developing gall bladder issues and hepatitis. Many people, eating a vegetarian diet are convinced that it's very healthy, but in the end they suffer from depression, overweight and most other modern diseases.

With a little research one can clearly see the dangers of the food these individuals promote, the worst being soy beans, tofu, grains and the sugars. It's of no use to eat these foods organic when they are unhealthy anyway. Most vegetarian diets also lack fat content and the fat they do eat are unhealthy poly-unsaturated (vegetable) fats.

When you follow a caveman diet, we know why we eat meat. We know that we did not evolve to eat just plant foods. Meat has been a part of our diet for millions of years. To not eat the food best suited for us is like killing ourselves.

Check this paragraph from a recent Time article:

.… a CBS News study found that ex-vegetarians outnumber current vegetarians by a ratio of three to one, suggesting that 75% of vegetarians lapse. A survey by Hal Herzog and Morgan Childers found that these born-again omnivores were mostly women (as many vegetarians are) an average age of 28 years old and had been vegetarians for nine years when they reverted. The majority went vegetarian due to concerns about the treatment of animals and returned to meat because of declining health (“I will take a dead cow over anemia any time,” one man told Psychology Today), logistical hassles, social stigmas, and meat cravings. Only two of the seventy-seven former vegetarians surveyed resumed meat-eating because their moral views changed.

75% is a lot of lapses. What it shows is that no matter how much we think we can over rule our biology by sheer will power, our biology will show us who is the real boss. It is good to see some vegetarians coming to their senses. And in doing so they help us in the caveman world since in the end we want the same thing: ethical meat.

For some, like Berlin Reed, 29, the return to meat has ironically been a humane one. Reed, who went vegetarian at age 12, was such a die-hard that his friends once staged a “bacon intervention.” He has the world “vegan” tattooed on his neck. But these days, he both eats meat and works with it, calling himself “the ethical butcher.” He insists that changes in the butchery profession are crucial to improving the meat system. “I don’t eat beef from factory farms for many of the same reasons I won’t buy clothes from The Gap,” Reed told the Today show; “It’s all about the industries and practices that are polluting our world, not whether or not it is okay to kill for food.”

Indeed, it seems that the latest form of animal activism is not not eating meat, but rather only eating ethical, sustainable meat. What’s that? It depends on the perspective, though it can include some combination or permutation of industry terms like “organic” “free-range,” “cruelty-free,” and “natural,” and labels about animal welfare from certification companies. Sustainable meat-eating is particularly suitable for those who return to omnivorism because of health problems, like nutritionist Julie Daniluk, 38, who co-hosts a cooking show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, where she promotes conscientious meat-eating ….

Smart Bacon..give me a break!!

Ingredients: Water, soy protein isolate, wheat gluten, soybean oil, textured soy protein concentrate, textured wheat gluten, less than 2% of: natural smoke flavor, natural flavor (from vegetable sources), grill flavor (from sunflower oil), carrageenan, evaporated cane juice, paprika oleoresin (for flavor & color), potassium chloride, sesame oil, spice extractives, fermented rice flour, tapioca dextrin, citric acid, salt.

How stupid is this product? Never before in history have we consumed such copious amounts of unfermented soy.

Soy is a goitrogen, people! That means it causes thyroid disease. This is because it blocks iodine in the body. It causes breast cancer and cancer of the reproductive organs. Iodine is stored in the thyroid gland, breast, and reproductive organs, respectively.

Soy also causes lots of other problems -- including early-onset puberty. Because it contains phytoestrogens which mimic estrogen in the body.

Not to mention the fact that this is a highly processed food that undoubtedly requires a great deal of energy and resources. If you're a vegetarian because you want to save the planet, this is a very poor choice.

If you want to be smart, eat real bacon. Nitrate-free bacon, made from pigs raised humanely by grass farmers.