3 Crazy Theories

[tarheel91]

HappySqurriel said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Lem_Nx said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Girls are having periods at a much younger age. I know girls who've had their first periods at 8 now. That's gotta be due to our crazy diets. But the meat isn't what makes us live longer. It's killing us and the environment, and wasting clean water and grains that other people can eat and be healthy with.

 

You can take my steak from my cold, fat filled arteries!

 

Hahaha.  Some day, someone will.  I just hope they don't eat it.

 

 

(I'm not even a vegetarian, but science is definitely on the vegetarian side.)

 

Actually, I haven't seen any independant studies which demonstrated any health benefits of having a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle over a well-balanced diet that includes meat. Most of the studies compare unrealistically healthy vegetarian/vegan lifestyles over below average diets.

 

He probably didn't intend this, but if population keeps growing at a similar rate, we will eventually be unable to produce enough food to feed everyone.  Even now it's a struggle thanks to greed.  However, using non-animal food sources would actually allow us to have 10 times more energy at our disposal than that which would have been gotten out of animals.  That is, of course, thanks to the 10% efficiency rule in nature.