The Nicefication of Eating Meat

[Shemaya]

All this talk made me realise - in generations past, the whole animal was prized and used, and nothing went to waste.  Nowadays, it's all about the fillet and the prime cuts.

I'm not saying this is either good or bad; but I can see how growing up with a more sanitized and 'nice' version of meat dishes (chicken's feet was about the most extreme I got), there was some sort of divorce from the fact that this was an actual animal once.

Very true Plenum.  

Human beings have evolved as meat- eaters.....since we must eat to live, there have been many times in human history where plant sources of food were unavailable due to drought and lack of technology to store food.  So animal foods have kept human beings alive.  That for sure is something that even today we can have gratitude for.  Anyone in a human body is here because of animals gift, they have been life- giving for humanity.

My family are meat- eaters, me not so much.  I often talk to them about the animals hopefully planting seeds that will move them to think about the bigger issues and open their compassion. So they don't get to completely divorce themselves from the truth!

We recently got a vitamix blender.  It is awesome for packing in the highly dense nutrition of fruits and veggies .  Highly recommended that everyone get one and have smoothies everyday. I think the key to moving away from animal protein is densely nutritious foods, very important.

I have one co- worker who is a vegetarian.  She is having scary neurological symptoms.  I talked to her about B12 deficiency ( her symptoms are caused by demyelination which can be caused by B12 defiency).  Her levels are adequate according to tests however.  I want to talk to her more though, there are more sensitive blood tests that can confirm the deficiency.  ( low homocysteine and something else).   I think it is unfortunate because she became vegetarian in recent years and to have such scary symptoms is very discouraging.