Reply #80: I'm getting tired of these threads that attack other people's [View All]

eating habits. I also get tired of people who continue flame wars from other threads. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5563567

My position is that people should eat in whatever way they choose to, and according to what they feel is best, or most enjoyable for them, and should piss off about other people's eating habits.

I'm not saying not to criticize the meat industry, both for its cruelty and its adverse environmental impact, but that's a separate issue.

As far as your claims about acidity and alkalinity, how they are affected by meat eating, and how that impacts one's ability to develop disease, well, I'd like to see some reputable, peer reviewed, scientific literature to back that up.

As for your last point, I don't think it's possible to eat meat where the cells are actually alive. Cell death happens pretty quickly after actual death, and apes may spend hours working on a single carcass, or even scavenge on things that have been dead for awhile, as our ancestors are speculated to have done. At any rate, once a cell gets into the HCL of your stomach, it's toast anyway. "Live" or dead, it still gets broken down into its constituent parts once it's in your gut. As somebody else pointed out, eating raw meat can be very dangerous, because the "live" cells you're eating will mostly be live bacteria and parasites.

Remember, anybody can make any sort of claim at all on the internet, and in health related books. It's a good idea to look for corroborating evidence before you swallow it hook line and sinker.

I would like to hear from you what you consider to be the difference between a cell that was dead when you ate it, versus a cell that became dead once it hit the HCL in your stomach. What are the differences in nutrients and why, and why does one affect your body's acidity while the other doesn't? If I could see a coherent answer to those questions, I might take what you're saying a little more seriously.