The error of your way.
Could be spelled 'the carnivore diet'..
A growing number of people in the world adopt healthy, fit living by going increasingly more vegetarian for a long range of personal reasons and or due to scientific reasons. Some of those reasons often include the substantial increase in cancer and diabetes risk that eating red meat and highly processed foods causes, or the impossible mathematics behind an entire world eating ever higher amounts of meat, or the incredible amount of pollution that animal food production causes.
And facts are, that all those reasons are equally good, sound and true, so it does not even matter why you do it. It is a good and healthy choice to eat less red meat, and by doing so you will contribute towards a healthier you, and a healthier world.
There are also emotional and moral reasons such as causing less unnecessary pain and suffering for other living, emotional beings. Because cows, pigs, and dogs, like people, do feel pain, they suffer, they rejoice, they enjoy life, get sad or happy.
And just as no human enjoy being locked up in a cage without the freedom to move and enjoy nature and sunshine, there isn't an animal on this planet which enjoy a deprived life either.
So if those are your reasons to go more vegetarian, that is perfectly sound and valid too, with no additional reasons needed.
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Others go with vegetarian food choices simply due to the way the world spins.
Because the actual mathematical reality of an entire world populated by roughly 10 billion people eating huge amounts of meat, well, what that world would end up being, is a world entirely deprived of all living wild animals in zero time. Not to mention the clear uptick in pollution in air, soil, and waters. A situation we are already rapidly heading towards.
And as if those things are not already bad enough, there is the issue of the huge landmass grab which animal-based food production gives rise too compared to vegetarian food choices.
And to illustrate how impossible that situation already is, I´ll just quote myself from a fairly recent article, "food production from animal farming is already using up 83% of our global agricultural land. Yet, it is only managing to deliver about 18% of the calories we consume".
But, the bad consequences of eating large amounts of meat is not done yet.
On top of all this, you also have to consider the devastating fact that animal-based food production is already the worlds largest freshwater consumer. The animal agriculture industry as a whole is using up almost all of our fresh water. And I am sure that you are aware of just how precious our global freshwater reserves are, and with rising global warmth our global need for increased water production will only continue to skyrocket despite switching over to crops and lifestyles which demand much lower amounts of water.
Not to mention the billions of people that are deprived of safe fresh water in their homes, their job, their schools, and municipality, and for no other reason than the greed and stubbornness of yet another unsustainable industry that refuses to change to a much better alternative. And this is why, we can rightly call red meat and animal-based agriculture in general, the coal and oil of the food industry. Because it is a devastating industry that is harming all our health, and the entire planet.
So if we instead put personal opinion and personal preferences in taste to the side, the mounting evidence makes it perfectly clear that eating more meat simply does not work out in today's world. And as such, The verdict cannot be anything else than the carnivore diet choice being nothing but an incredibly selfish choice. Crappy and unhealthy and unsustainable, and utterly lacking in long-term and intellectually sound thinking.
In this particular instance, the carnivore diet also gets to serve as the perfect example of how red meat and large-scale animal-based agriculture is today upheld by commercial forces making short-term money on selling a product which is wrecking the entire world for us. A dietary choice that is seemingly championed by the White House administrations own short-term cravings for increased profit at the expense of everybody else's wellbeing.
As I previously mentioned, the actual reality of the situation on Planet Earth summer of 2018 is making red meat the agricultural version of coal and oil.
Another issue is that the number of humans is by now far too big compared to what the limited wildlife and landmass we have left can ever sustain. Unless we change our way of life to something far healthier and far more sustainable.
Add to that the very real individual need for a pollution free world in order for our own health to not go to hell.
So the reasons to go vegetarian are substantial and real, and they are legion.
This, however, does not mean that you cannot survive purely on meat.
Because, of course, you can. People can eat nothing but meat and they might even feel all wonderful by doing so.
But actual health is about science and facts and not perceived assumptions. So let us take a simple example before you explode about how all that matters is that you feel good.
Once upon a time, people believed that smoking nicotine and snorting cocaine was wonderful and healthy too. But science and facts are what they are and today we all know much better, today we know just how incredibly damaging those choices were for entire generations of people. With that said, the entire lineage of Hominidae can function quite well on a wide range of food sources fpr a period of time. We can dine and wine on nothing but water and fish. Eggs, fruits, meat, plants on land and sea.
Berries, crops.
Nuts.
Well, you name it and chances are that most Hominidae would be able to adapt their dietary food habits to include said food source in its exclusivity for quite a while.
It´s part of why Hominidae has excelled the way we have as a whole.
We adapt, we evolve and we progress all while our biological system is designed to take the punishment of quite a lot of stupid decisions and bad situations before breaking down completely.
But purely being able to live on something does not make it a good long-term choice. If it could be called healthy at all to voluntarily consume food that increases your risk for cancer ( Well, the answer to that is hopefully a very obvious, No it cant ).
Nor does it make it a functionally wise choice or a sustainable choice long term speaking. Because, real science will always apply to this world we are living in, and it will always apply to all of our own choices.
And that brings us to the age-old, brand new dietary choice that is called "carnivore". And yes, as the name implies, this diet is all about eating nothing but animal food.
Forget greens. Nuts, tasty berries.
Forget fruit, grains, and even dairy.
In its most extreme version, you eat truly nothing more than meat and eggs.
Is this doable in any shape and form?.
Sure it is. People can totally get on by eating nothing but meat, and if we go back in time people have done just that on numerous occasions for both shorter and more extended periods of time. So there is clearly nothing new or impossible about this at all.
But just as how people cannot go 100% vegan without actually understanding how the human body works and take measures to still get the nutrients they will miss out on when going purely vegan, people have to understand that they cannot live entirely on meat and eggs and nothing else without very real and substantial consequences. In fact, as we alluded to earlier in this article, once enough people go carnivore, this entire world is rendered "fubar".
So is "carnivore" a scientifically sound and good dietary choice in today's world.
Hell, no is the short and hopefully clear answer!.
Sure, if you did not live on planet Earth, and if animal wildlife over at that fictional place happened to be so plentiful that no matter how much you consumed and killed their numbers still increased exponentially, then I´d say that sure thing baby, eat nothing but meat for as long as you can get on by doing that, if that is what you want to do.
You won't implode and die right away, and as long as there are animals to eat I guess you might even do quite ok for a while, but it sure won't aid your health long-term speaking. and then I would list the numerous ways that consuming too much red meat will harm your own and others longevity and health. Such as the substantial increase in diabetes and cancer risk, premature death from cardiovascular health issues and so forth. You know, real health issues which have clearly been linked to high red-meat consumption.
That´s what I would tell you if we lived on that imaginary planet.
But the thing is, you do live on planet Earth and we do not have endless amounts of wildlife to hunt down here.
In fact, we don't have much wildlife around at all anymore. And our planet is in bad enough shape as it is.
So, as far as animal-based agriculture goes. Let us piggyback to a previous part of this article before we round it all up.
Animal-based farms already use up most of our water, water which is becoming increasingly precious......
Animal-based farms also happen to pollute our world more than any other industry do. Which in turn harm our own health as much as the health of the planet.
Animal farms also lay claim to insane amounts of land mass and use up natural resources in an incredibly skewed proportion.
So, down here on planet Earth, people only eating meat just does not work purely from a mathematical point of view anymore. I do not even have to talk about moral and ethical choices or animal health and wellbeing.
Because the situation is already so bad that choosing to consume nothing but red meat is, in fact, nothing but a selfish and impossibly damaging choice. And this is not based on guilt or morals, the impossibility of it is based purely on science, facts, and clear-cut numbers.
There is also this thing called history, which we all have a chance to learn from.
Sailors of old for instance dined on nothing but meat and cheese for quite a while out at sea for extended periods of time. And how did that work out for them in the long haul?.
Not too good.
Eating too much red meat clearly increase cancer risk and diabetes by a substantial margin, together with a host of other health and environmental issues. And this is not concomitance, the bad health of eating too much red meat is made perfectly clear in scientific study after scientific study.
So while you can absolutely do it, and while you might feel wonderful, that will never change the fact that this is still not a choice that works out particularly well for your own health or the health of the planet. And that simple reality is not going away or changing just because red meat eaters and the industry behind said food products are choosing to ignore it.
So, as a health and fitness coach, a personal trainer or fitness guru, it is just plain ridiculous to suggest that others should consume more red meat.
Reckless and ignorant actually.
But none of this means that you can not live on nothing but meat for extended periods as a selfish individual that just do not care about your own long-term health or the state of this world or the scientific reality of health and fitness and the way your choices are negatively impacting everyone else.
Because you can do that.
Not to mention the way it fucks up the entire world.
Heck, as I stated earlier on, Hominidae species are incredibly resilient and adaptive. Just look at the increasing amount of people getting stuck in their living room sofa due to eating too much food and never getting up. Most would not call that an enjoyable and healthy life at all, not the least the people being trapped in that situation, and yet, people still manage to live long enough to do that to themselves, a progressive state of bad and self-harming health choices which take years to develop.
And that is the state of the carnivore diet.
It is only doable from a very selfish individual perspective and short-term it might even net you a decent fitness result, but it has nothing to do with real science and real lifelong health, and there is no mathematical room for it to exist on planet Earth anymore.
At least not until we have 100% artificially grown meat.
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