RE: meat, forced vegetarianism, etc. | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: TR Ruddick (truddickearthlink.net) | |
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:24:09 -0600 (MDT) |
Personal perspective: Even when I was a practicing vegetarian, I disliked the way that some vegetarians insisted that their diet was superior. As Dan O'Neil put it, if you think vegetarians are peaceful, advanced people, try eating a good hamburger in front of one. Now, I am on the Atkins diet. Which means, people, that I have bacon for breakfast, and very few veggies indeed compared to myself in years past. Looking back, I now realize that I started to have the symptoms of diabetes at the time I went vegetarian. A low-carb lifestyle has made me healthier; for several years I had been getting daily bouts of vertigo and other symptoms that made my life less than vigorous, but avoiding carbs has cleared up those problems. In my experience, I must limit my food carbs to under 20 per day, normally, and avoid like the plague anything particularly sugary or starchy, with exceptions on special occasions or in emergencies. Having tried vegetarian, even vegan, in my earlier life, I am well aware of those styles. I can say with some authority that there's no easy way to provide a diet within those parameters and still meet my needs--and any diet that managed to do so would be deadly boring. That's not to deny that some people thrive under a vegetarian diet; but I insist that we're all different and that we all should pursue our own dietary needs based on what seems to work for us. I am aware that there is "good" research to support all kinds of dietary choices. Frankly, I am amazed that anyone can still earn a living as a dietician; over the years, the dietary profession has relied on junk science and wives-tale wisdom to contradict itself again and again in food recommendations. Until the dietary profession settles itself into some recommendations that last longer than a decade, I'm planning to consider them only a little more believable than politicians. IMO, there is too much in American culture that amounts to food faddism. Happily enough, the people I'm currently working with on cohousing are of like mind. As I envision it, a common house dinner involves serving dozens of people. Why not prepare a great ranges of foods to accomodate peoples' needs? Enough about imaginary non-starchy vegan meal plans--bring me a porterhouse, medium rare, with Atkins steak sauce! TR Ruddick Dayton Cohousing _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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RE: meat, forced vegetarianism, etc. TR Ruddick, September 21 2003
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Re: RE: meat, forced vegetarianism, etc. Racheli Gai, September 22 2003
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Re: RE: meat, forced vegetarianism, etc. Elizabeth Stevenson, September 22 2003
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Re: RE: meat, forced vegetarianism, etc. Racheli Gai, September 22 2003
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