What is a blocked vegetarian?!
What is a blocked vegetarian?
In "Living among meat eaters" by Carol Adams, she states that meat eaters are "blocked vegetarians."
i havent read the book, only excerpts. i really want to read it, but first:
what is a blocked vegetarian..i dont get it.
Answers:
Hey,
I love that book, and although I do not agree with everything she says, I agreee with a lot and I recommend it to all people who are trying to become vegetarian and are scared or facing animosity from friends, family or work place.
She believes that most people, deep down do not want to be killing animals and eating their flesh, even if they are not quite aware.
People are "blocked" by their fears. These fears often come out to you in discussion. Either, they are afraid they will miss meat, food wont taste good anymore, they will be outcasts, fear calling attention to themselves, they fear they will not have enough protein and become sick.
How often have you heard a meat eater say something like "I could never be a vegetarian because..."? That means that something inside of them realizes they are a part of a process that is not good, and they maybe even understand they should change.
So being a Blocked Vegetarian is being someone (she feels most or many meat eaters) who thinks somewhere within them that they should be a vegetarian, but their fears keep them away.
Source(s):
"Living Among the Meat Eaters"
p 21-4... the definition from the book
:)
A blocked vegetarian is generally someone who very much prefers eating meat and dislikes or tries to avoid taking any form of vegies and fruits....kind of like the complete reverse of vegetarianism.
Wow, I've never heard of this term before. Hey, at least it's not giving *real* veg cred to meat eaters. Doesn't seem to be doing that at all.
Let me take a crack at this....
All human beings are physiologically designed to be herbivores. Not omnivores, certainly not carnivores, but herbivores. That means we're all designed to be vegans.
There is a piece of Baha'i scripture that illustrates how this is true:
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Question: What will be the food of the united people?
Answer: As humanity progresses, meat will be used less and less, for the teeth of man are not carnivorous. For example, the lion is endowed with carnivorous teeth, which are intended for meat, and if meat be not found, the lion starves. The lion cannot graze; its teeth are of different shape. The digestive system of the lion is such that it cannot receive nourishment save through meat. The eagle has a crooked beak, the lower part shorter than the upper. It cannot pick up grain; it cannot graze; therefore, it is compelled to partake of meat. The domestic animals have herbivorous teeth formed to cut grass, which is their fodder. The human teeth, the molars, are formed to grind grain. The front teeth, the incisors, are for fruits, etc. It is, therefore, quite apparent according to the implements for eating that man's food is intended to be grain and not meat. When mankind is more fully developed, the eating of meat will gradually cease.
(‘Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 170-171; Q&A from a talk given at Church of the Ascension, New York, on June 2, 1912)
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In addition to the teeth, claws, and digestive tract... the digestive juices of carnivores are 10 times stronger than those of herbivores, because it must digest raw carcass. A carnivore's digestive tract is only 3 times the length of the animal, so that it gets rid of rotting flesh quickly. However, herbivore guts are 10 times the length of the body. This is certainly not an efficient system for digesting meat, because it would stay there way too long. If an herbivore eats meat, by the time it gets to the end of the tract, that meat is the nastiest, rottenest, foulest piece of vermin ever!
Human digestive juices are 10 times weaker than those of carnivores, and our guts are 10 times as long as we are tall. Well, well!!
The size of the mouth cavity in carnivores is very large in relation to the entire size of the head. Imagine a cat or dog yawning, now imagine you yawning. There's no way your mouth can open up relatively as much as a cat or dog or any carnivore. Why does a carnivore have such large oral cavities? Think... their mouths are big, they can open their jaws up wide, and they have sharp, dagger and scissor like teeth. This kind of equipment was designed for killing prey, for eating meat. And humans? Gimme a break, we're not designed for the hunt, no way.
Another thing... the mandible (jaw). A carnivore's mandible moves up and down only, and does not move from side to side. There is no need for side to side movement, considering the diet of carnivores and the teeth used to cut their food. They eat meat, not plants or grain. Herbivores must grind their food (plants, grains, nuts, etc), and have no need to cut their food like knives. That's why a carnivore's back teeth are sharp, and the top & bottom teeth are angled to perform like scissors. Herbivore teeth are molars, and their jaws move from side to side, because they must grind and mush their food. Think of cows, horses, sheep, apes, giraffes, and human beings. We all grind, we all have molars, we don't have fangs or sharp back scissor-like teeth, and our mouths aren't big when compared to the rest of the head. Think of a horse, come on.
A human's body is soft and benign, not equipped with any dangerous blades, beaks, talons or claws, and we are not endowed with super-strength. A lion's left front leg alone can pull 330 pounds. Can a human do that? Only a guy, and only if he's taking 'roids.
It's super obvious, we're physiologically designed to be herbivores, aka vegans.
"Blocked vegetarians".... Perhaps the author meant that meat eating humans do not YET accept their inherant (sp?) herbivore design? She might also be talking about constipation, something that cheese causes. Ugh!
Sounds interesting, I hope you enjoy it.
sounds like she is trying to insinuate that they are vegetarians but refuse to admit it.