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I’ve decided to remain an omnivore despite still believing in kins domains. Here is why.

Vegetables in grocery stores are unhealthy for the following reasons. 1. Soil depletion 2. GMO alterations that prevent ripening 3. “Fresh” vegetables sit on trucks and then on shelves for days on end. (Frozen can actually be healthier for this reason.) 4. A lot of people cannot afford organic, telling them off is poor shaming. 5. Stressed plants produce toxins that give some people auto immune issues.(These people have to go carnivore to be healthy.) 6. Vegetable nutrients are less absorbable then nutrients from meat. With absorbency calculated in as well there is no comparison, meat is far better. Big powerful herbivores have bigger/more stomachs then we do. 7. Some things like peanut butter are not refrigerated and gain more anti-nutrients over time.

A lot of land devoted to grazing livestock is not farmable. In some areas hundreds of wild pigs are massacred and their bodies dumped to rot in order to protect crops. Deer hunting also protects crops from devastation. If everyone went vegan animals would still be killed.

There are a lot of examples of unhealthy vegetarians, especially vegans and most especially raw food vegans. Their teeth blacken, they age really fast, they become infertile, thyroid issues are common, they are chalk white and burn easily, they have cold hands and feet even in summer, they are often so thin they look like famine victims. I’m not even going to get into the mental issues some of them have. I know genuinely healthy ones exist but the unhealthy ones are in denial, claim to be healthy and get very aggressive about it.

An established kins domain solves these problems but not everyone is established on their domain yet. I see people pushing vegetarianism before the domain and I wonder if this is why the ringing cedars is less popular in America. I remember once as a child I got to eat homegrown snow peas seconds after picking them. They were so good I ate them like candy. Years later I saw some at an organic grocery store and grabbed some. They tasted like grass, no wonder kids don’t like vegetables.

My mom tells a story of when I was a tiny baby not old enough to eat solid foods of any kind yet. She was eating a t-bone steak and when she finished I grabbed the bone(she did not hand it to me) and vigorously sucked every last molecule of juice out of it. She was kinda shocked as was my grandma. I don’t think I am genetically predisposed toward vegetarianism.

I’ve also wondered about the population issues as well. Are wild carnivores going to step up? Large cats eat deer but are killed off because they eat small children as well. American wolves are not predatory to humans but have a bad reputation because European wolves do hunt humans as prey. Also animals are not always humane killers, big cats teach their young to hunt by maiming their prey and bringing it to their babies alive. Non-psychopathic people try to minimize the suffering as much as possible when killing animals.

• This reply was modified 8 months, 3 weeks ago by  River Wind.