I don't consider your remarks flippant, and I understand what you are saying, but are you channeling Ted Nugent or what? The way you describe man is as some sort of savage, and I don't think we need to be like that in most ways, most of the time.
Regarding the effects of eating meat, it is not normal in a society for 50% of deaths to come from heart disease. This is a disease of heavy meat eaters, and several cancers and other serious disease are prominent in meat eaters. I don't know why you have never heard of this concept, but here is a recent book about it, The China Study. I've included an editorial review, but there is a lot more information there if you care to poke around. I will have to answer your other point, about whether man is a natural predator, a little later because I have to cook dinner (vegan hotdogs on whole wheat buns, mixed vegetable chips and organic grapes):
Editorial Reviews
Review
"[This] elaborate study of rural Chinese gives big points to the health value of their plant-based diets." —Chicago Tribune
Book Description
This exhaustive presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West. The impact of the politics of nutrition and the efforts of special interest groups on the creation and dissemination of public information on nutrition are also discussed.
About the Author
T. Colin Campbell, PhD, is the project director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project (the China Study), a 20-year study of nutrition and health. He is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. In more than 40 years of research he has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. He lives in Ithaca, New York. Thomas M. Campbell II lives in Ithaca, New York.
The China Study, May 21, 2005
Reviewer: David Klein - See all my reviews
The China study is the most important book on nutrition and health to come out in the last 75 years. Everyone should read it and it should be the model for all nutrition programs taught at universities. The reading is engrossing if not astounding. The science is conclusive. Dr. Campbell's intregrity and commitment to truthful nutrition education shine through. I interviewed him yesterday and found him to be a warm, genuinely brilliant scientist and humanitarian who speaks only about the real facts. The science is clearly consulsive: the best diet for humans is the vegan diet. Vegan diet stops and reverses most diseases, rejueventes, slims the body and stops the needless slaughter of animals and ravaging effects of animal farming. Learn why vegan foods are nutritionally complete and how the US government and AMA have abused our trust, perverting the truth about nutrition all in the name of profiteering. Dr. Campbell is a hero who deserves our serious attention.
David Klein
Publisher/Editor of Living Nutrition Magazine
Sebastopol, California
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