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For starters, the "needless" context is satisfied with this statement from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: "appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle" If it's not wrong to needlessly kill animals, is it wrong to needlessly kill humans? If yes, this implies there is a difference/some differences between animals and humans that allowed you to make this distinction. What are these traits? If you applied these traits back onto a human context, would it be okay to needlessly kill the human? Please consider going vegan

Any thoughts? http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/the-cholesterol-myth/ "Lipitor and other Statin drugs have become BIG BUSINESS to “Big Pharma” nowadays. For roughly half a century now cholesterol-a naturally occurring substance in your body and in many animal-source foods humans have eaten consistently for roughly 2.6 million years-has become both “Public Enemy #1″ and the favorite whipping boy of the medical establishment. “High serum cholesterol” has been consistently blamed unquestioningly for the skyrocketing levels of heart disease and stroke. Everyone seemingly trembles with fearful anticipation of the sinister cholesterol levels revealed by the blood chemistry reports given by doctors during annual physicals. “Give it to me straight, doc….What’s my cholesterol?” Or… “How’s my “bad” cholesterol?”—and— “Is my “good” cholesterol OK?” Before you go dutifully marching to your pharmacist with the prescription from your doctor marked “RUSH!” there are one or two things you should understand that might just save you the trip…and quite possibly save your life."

Hello everybody! I have recently discovered this book browsing through amazon because of my interest in nutrition. I was definitely not expecting its content. Basically, the author Dr. Campbell advocates a WFPB (Whole food plant-based) diet. I haven't gotten into his prior book "The China Study" but essentially he describes that consuming animal meat and dairy is correlated to the development of cancer in the body. He also contends that eating said meat and dairy is also linked to other fatal diseases such as stroke and heart disease. He also commits to saying that the medical community is focused more on reaction than prevention, That we need to take a "wholistic" approach to the problem and that approach is to radically change our diet. Dr. Campbell proceeds to provide evidence that during his research, he observed that when rats were injected with a cancer causing compound and were given a consistent 20% animal protein, the cancer proliferated. In contrast to the rats that were given a dramatically lower concentration of 5% protein the cancer appeared to have stopped and some even reversed in nature! He continues to go into the science behind it all, but that is the main point. The WFPB diet has also been tested on humans and it has shown to stop cancer! This is just astonishing and astounding and i'm surprised I haven't heard about this until now. Aside from that, i'm having thoughts on becoming vegan/vegetarian now. I heard that there are plenty of salutary effects it has on the individual. There are definitely a lot of essential nutrients i'm missing out on from skipping out on my brocoli, beans and nuts. The book also goes into a myriad of subjects such as DNA, enzymes, reductionist philosophy, the scientific method, etc. It's a mind blowing read; would highly recommend to you all.

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