Monday, January 23, 2012

You are what you eat.

Hello everyone. Today I will be expounding on a subject near and dear to my heart, today we will discuss eating. Most of the people checking out this blog have had the dubious honor of supping with me at one time or another. I am a man of large appetites. That being said I have a few things to say about eating in general and the difference between carnivoresomnivores and herbivores.

Okay so lets get to the meat of the subject and discuss carnivores. The classic slogan from the Wizard of Oz comes to mind "Lions and Tigers and Bears...Oh My!"

Thugged out meat-eating critters












 The discovery channel estimates that 40% of all animals are carnivorous in the world.  This means that a large percentage of animals would try and eat you if they could. So eat them first ask questions later.

The second group of animals that eats everything in their path is the omnivore. Humans beings have the dubious honor of being the apex predator when it comes to our ominivorous talents.
No animal or vegetation is safe when it comes to the human being. With our ability to make tools and equipment to take care of any edible threat. For example:

Disgruntled Bear + Hunting Rifle= Disgruntled Bear on Wall
Disgruntled Wheat+ Combine = Disgruntled grain for disgruntled bread.
Discarded animal parts+"spices"+grinding machine= Hotdogs

( I am being very liberal with the word disgruntled- but I think that it is very descriptive of anything that is going to be killed to be eaten. I would be very anti-gruntled if I was being hunted and  made into steaks or bread anything else that sounds delicious.)
Most of the regular American population fall into this category. We eat whatever is at hand. We may have like and dislikes but we eat just about anything that is shoved in front of our faces.

The last group we will talk about it the Herbivore. These creatures eat only plants. No meat is needed to sate these animals. Some human beings have been known to take this route by choice. I find this to be contradictive to our natural tendency to as humans to consume everthying that we can see, touch ,feel, taste...etc..

I believe that there are definitive health benefits to eating more plants and less meat in our diet. I believe that animals do this because they are adapted for it. I believe that we, as humans, do it as a choice or necessity. I believe that any person in a post industrial society does this by choice and not by need.


We discussed a few things in this post. What do you think?
Which category do you fit in?
Comment  and we will discuss pros and cons.









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