“You are what you eat”, is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism. When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their muscle tissue. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests the flesh and adapts the same emotions. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotional cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.
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"Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotional cells prior to digestion."
This is blatantly false. For example, here is L. Ron Hubbard demonstrating that this particular tomato has engrams left over from it's previous life that proves it had been digested by tax auditors during an Internal Revenue Service plot to commit genocide on another planet in loyalty to Xenu. Can you see the reading on the scale? The E-Meter does not lie.
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In nature animals die in pure agony and sometimes are simply consumed alive.
Humans may have bad habits, but we do make the attempt to stun and kill the beast quickly before taking it apart.
"fear and aggression enzymes"? You have scientific evidence for this, of course?
Some say that fruits and vegetables do have rudimentary "feelings". Those people probably have as much evidence for their view-point as you have for your "fear enzymes".
If you are what you eat, and you only eat vegetables, then you're a vegetable.
(I think it's a stupid saying; I'm a human being, and I certainly don't want to eat humans.)
Besides, we evolved as omnivores, and we need nutrients that are abundant in meat products. Switching to a vegan/vegetarian diet means you have to make sure you find those nutrients in something else.
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Er. Dude, is this like a magic brownie induced "epiphany?" I've been a vegetarian for about a decade, but not because I had any worries over "fear and aggression enzymes" or "emotional cells," thanks.
@ StoneSpiral
In nature animals die in pure agony and sometimes are simply consumed alive.
Humans may have bad habits, but we do make the attempt to stun and kill the beast quickly before taking it apart.
You haven't been to a Japanese restaurant.
Not only are they wrong about the, the... whatever the fear enzyme whackadoodle they are going on about they are wrong about the plants too. Plants have systems of hormones that allow them to sense and respond to their environment. Not comparable to a nervous system of course, but saying that plants don't respond to being picked/ harvested is a definite overreach.
So you have no emotions? You're a sociopath?
@John
Or spicyness, but we all know well that works when humans come into play.
@Raspberry
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Puncess Carlostia: 'Yep. That's a definite Rock Slam. What is connected to his E-Meter are PTS : Potential Tomato Sauce! '
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Tomato sauce, incidentally, tastes great on a Bacon Sarnie.
So why does Bacon - which tastes so good - make me feel happy when I eat it, uknowfuckall...?!
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celestiahealing
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Adrenalin isn't an "emotional cell." Actually, nothing is. Anyway, it's nearly impossible to get an unbiased answer on "do stress hormones in meat have any negative impact on humans?" They do make meat tougher and change the flavor a bit, which is why that deer you chased half a mile before finishing it off tastes like crap.
The problem isn't killing, it's the way animals are treated before that. Just today there was another horrific story about pigs in Illinois. I'm not saying don't eat meat. I'm saying if you believe that, at the very least, animals feel pain, please try to buy from responsible sources.
@PETF:
Some are, rhinos and hippos come to mind...
The OP however is 5 spices of crazy. Also you`re usually more chilled after a big meat meal on account of the itis. You could eat salad all day long and it will not set in, yet you munch on a quarter pounder and voila.
When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their muscle tissue. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests the flesh and adapts the same emotions.
Then why do I never feel fearful while eating a steak? Or why, when I eat animals, do I not take on the same thoughts and behaviors of such animals?
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