Why do alot of people think meat is important?!


Question: It starts alot of arguments. Maybe if I knew why, I wouldn't be irritated or offended.
Below are some of their reasons, and arguments against the reasons:

"You need protein" - But protein's found in most plant food. That's where the cows and chickens get it.

"You need alot of protein" - But when asked, they don't know how much. No one claims you need a lot of fat, but you need some.

Iron - animals don't make iron. It's a mineral that plants absorb.

The notion of balance - This assumes meat was put into the human diet for our own good. No one knows for sure, but I think meat-eating started during the ice age because there wasn't much else to eat. That became a tradition, kind of like eating certain food at certain times of day. People don't eat popcorn for breakfast or cereal for lunch. There are no nutritional reasons for this - it's just a custom.
And dinner isn't bacan or oatmeal(We know what's for dinner: those commercials tell us).
Most people don't eat liver


Answers: It starts alot of arguments. Maybe if I knew why, I wouldn't be irritated or offended.
Below are some of their reasons, and arguments against the reasons:

"You need protein" - But protein's found in most plant food. That's where the cows and chickens get it.

"You need alot of protein" - But when asked, they don't know how much. No one claims you need a lot of fat, but you need some.

Iron - animals don't make iron. It's a mineral that plants absorb.

The notion of balance - This assumes meat was put into the human diet for our own good. No one knows for sure, but I think meat-eating started during the ice age because there wasn't much else to eat. That became a tradition, kind of like eating certain food at certain times of day. People don't eat popcorn for breakfast or cereal for lunch. There are no nutritional reasons for this - it's just a custom.
And dinner isn't bacan or oatmeal(We know what's for dinner: those commercials tell us).
Most people don't eat liver

People think meat is important because that is how they were raised. How many times can you remember being told as a child "eat all your chicken/burger/etc and you'll grow up big and strong." We are conditioned from when we are young to think it makes us big and tall.

Advertising also plays a part. Remember "Pork, the other white meat", or "milk, does a body good"? All these ads are used to get the consumer to purchase foods. How many vegetable ads do you see on tv? I wonder how many more people would eat their fruits and vegetables if they saw commercials and ads for them.

Most people know nothing about nutrition and what they should be eating. Balanced diet/ moderation are just a words, ask most people what balanced diet is and they will not know. Balanced diets come from eating the proper amounts of the food groups. Meat is not alone in its group, so balance can come from eating the alternatives in the meat&bean group. Unfortunately being vegetarian does not mean that you automatically look for balanced meals either. I have found that most healthy eaters know about proper balance and what they should be eating(portion size, servings from eat group, etc). These healthy eaters can be found among vegetarians and meat eaters.

After research I have found that meat is not as important as most people think it is. The fact that people think it is so important that it must be eaten, just shows how reliant many people are on meat(meaning they cannot see a meal without it, therefore they probably are eating too many servings per day).

As a vegetarian, meat is not for me, I don't like the fact something has to die for my dinner, etc. I do however understand that a moderate amount of meat in a persons diet can be fine(if that is what they choose), but people who eat meat are not immune from having to properly balance their diet just because they eat meat.

We are informed so horribly!!!

it is animals!!!!

I really don't know because I'm a vegetarian.

We humans are omnivors, we survived by eating meat.
Dinosaurs became extinct, because most were herbivors.
We don't have the digestive systems of browsers like cows.
We cannot extract all the protein from vegetation like them.
Eating meat from other animals is an efficient way to get it.

It's there, it's not going to kill you, and it tastes good.
Why wouldn't you?
I appreciate people not eating meat due to their own personal beliefs but if you like it and it's not going against your principles then why the hell not?
As to the issue of when eating meat began, when did eating anything begin? It happened because someone, somewhere in the mists of time, got curious and thought 'why not?', much the same as vegetables or anything else we eat.
No one NEEDS to eat meat, much like no one NEEDS to eat vegetables and if they didn't, they could get all the nutrients from somewhere else. It's just because one day they tried it and liked it, and I'll be damned if I'm going to deny myself something that I like.

Because it's habit for most people. There are too many people who don't question anything or think for themselves.

i think you can more vitamins and protien from a small portion of meat than say a small portion of plants. just my guess. i like your "idea" of how we came to eat meat, but its just an educated guess, maybe do some research and find out, i think i am, after i reply.

I agree with you, when I ask people how much protein, they think they should be eating! erm,, nothing. they are lost for words!

"You need Protein" is a meat mantra!

If a person is eating meat to get protein, or Iron, I think they are lazy! - its like they are going to eat an animal that did all the work of eating the protein and - now a human comes and eats them! - just lazy!

Meat is a high quality protein source, red meat is very high in Iron, Liver even higher.
As always, balance in everything

First, I love liver. Whether meat is important to my diet is irrelevant. The fact is I like the taste and I can afford it. Therefore I will eat it.

Most of what you are saying is flawed. We are designed to eat meat, so that is the easiest way to get protein. Plants also have protein, but those proteins don't contain all the amino acids we need. It is possible to replace animal portion with a variety of plant protein, but that is a matter of choice not our biology. Animals don't create iron, but they store more than plants. Exactly what meat we eat is dictated by custom, but we have been eating meat since the first hominids began, and definitely since humans have existed.

I am not against vegetarian diets, but don't try and attach all this crap to it. I am not trying to be mean, but it makes no sense to say we only eat meat because of custom. If we could not ship these plants from all over the world people could not survive as vegetarians. Think about what you eat. Could you survive only on food grown within a days walking distance from your home? Very few people could. Because we do have options, many people make an informed decision to become vegetarians. Great for them. It still doesn't mean we didn't evolve to eat meat. Go to this site: http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp... . Read it (this page is only the conclusion of a larger paper that goes more into detail about each point), then revaluate your opinion. I understand it probably won't change, but you should still look at evidence against what you are saying.

because those people eat meat, they want everyone to be like them. they think that they are right to eat meat so they make up nonsense arguments so that they dont have to face the fact that they are wrong to be eating meat

EDIT: to the answer above me with the amino acid thing. SOY HAS ALL THE AMINO ACIDS THAT WE NEED

anything I like is important to me .....meat included

Resopnse to Kate E. yo she is smarter than you are you look like retarted comapred to her!

They think meat is important because they're not educated on health. Most people get way too much protein in the first place,.

most people do it just because that's the norm. Just don't be fooled by those who say that humans are meant to eat meat. It's not true. We started eating meat because during the ice age that's what was available and had fat to keep you warm. People just continued from then on. If we were meant to eat meat we wold not need to cook it and our teeth would all be much larger and sharper. We don't even have the correct stomach to digest meat fully. Not to mention that most people really get more protein than actually needed.

The same reason why it is important for people like you to ask this question over and over again, why you dispute every answer you don't agree with even though you are asking for opinions, why you follow your question with a rant, why you make it your business what other people do in their lives...

Because they can and it's really none of your business why they do it and you can and really not my business why you do it....

Because my body tells me so. Secondly, because I choose to believe that it is, just like vegans choose to believe that they have all the food problems in the world resolved.





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