VEGAN TEETH IS THAT AN ARGUMENT NO INTRO

VEGAN TEETH IS THAT AN ARGUMENT?

NO INTRO • No intro means no intro! • Cannot state this any clearer.

NO CLICHÉS MEANS NO CLICHÉS • “Everything is good in moderation. ” • What if I say “you are breathing too much air. Everything in moderation!”

BASED OF; BASED OFF OF? • Based on or based upon. • Were you in class when I explained this?

HEALTHY VS. HEALTHFUL • Healthy: Free from disease or pain • Healthful: Conducive to good health.

VEGAN, HUH. BUT WHAT ABOUT FISH? • What part of V E G A N do you not understand?

DON’T USE TRIUMPHANT LANGUAGE!” • “The ethics of eating meat overpowers vegetarianism…” • Questions in ethics are controversial. • Only in math you could do that.

OUR BODIES ARE EQUIPPED TO DIGEST MEAT? • Actually this is false! • For humans it is hard to digest meat. • Our stomach acids are not as powerful as animals’. • Sometimes you eat corn and it comes out the way it went in! • Even so, just because we can digest something it doesn’t follow we must do it!

THE QUESTION IS WHETHER MEAT PROVIDES LONG RUN BENEFITS. • Eating meat has been shown to hurt the body. • It has been shown to hurt the environment. • It causes animals pain. • Long term benefits?

VEGETARIAN KIDS ARE LESS INTELLIGENT! • What? • Show me the study! • That’s demonstrably false! • Galileo was a vegetarian. • Einstein was a vegetarian.

OUR BODIES HAVE EVOLVED TO EAT ORGANIC MEAT? • Our bodies are evolved to be evil. • To go to war. • To fight. • So does it make it moral to do those things?

MEAT CONTAINS FATTY ACIDS? • So do fruit and vegetables.

EATING MEAT = HEALTHY BABIES? • Did you rely on 1800 s science? • This is demonstrably false. • Position of the American Dietetic Association: vegetarian diets. • Abstract • It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes. A vegetarian diet is defined as one that does not include meat (including fowl) or seafood, or products containing those foods. This article reviews the current data related to key nutrients for vegetarians including protein, n-3 fatty acids, iron, zinc, iodine, calcium, and vitamins D and B-12. A vegetarian diet can meet current recommendations for all of these nutrients.

MEAT INCREASES THE SIZE OF OUR BRAINS? • Show me the evidence. • Even so, are you saying that not eating meat will make our brain smaller?

IT IS OUR NATURE TO EAT MEAT. • How would you know that? • Because some people eat it? • Is it squirrels nature to eat fries?

SOME PEOPLE LACK IRON AND THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T EAT MEAT. • Is that what scientists say? • I want to see that study. • People lack iron for a variety of reasons. • Meat eaters lack iron. • Beans, among many others, have iron.

KADYA ARAKI • Who?

THE MORALITY OF ANIMALS IS DIFFERENT? • Making assertions is one thing, showing proof another.

PEOPLE HAVE TO DEFEND THEIR CHOICES: • But it matters how. • Also you have to do it.

KILLING AN ANIMAL IS NOT THE SAME AS KILLING A HUMAN BEING. • …says the meat eater. • Why not? Prove don’t just assert it.

WE EXPERIENCE CERTAIN LEVEL OF GRIEF THAT ANIMALS DON’T. • How would you know that?

ANIMALS REQUIRE A SHORTER TIME TO RECOVER FROM THE LOSS. • “We love children because they are children not because they ae future adults. ”

EATING MEAT IS BENEFICIAL • Again? • Which nutrients? • Science disagrees.

B 12 CANNOT COME FROM NONANIMAL SOURCES? • Really? • Where do cows get it from? • Why do they produce b 12 supplements?

PROTEINS. AGAIN? • What’s a protein? • Please explain. • Proteins prevents muscle loss?

ANIMALS DIE TO PROVIDE VEGANS PRODUCTS. • That’s why we protest!

VEGAN = DIET? • Not a diet!

THINGS YOU CANNOT FIND OUTSIDE MEAT? • Such as?

VEGANISM DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE • UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet • Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says • UN: https: //www. theguardian. com/environment/2010/jun/02/un -report-meat-free-diet

OUR TEETH MADE FOR EATING MEAT?

REALLY?