Vegans VS Omnivores Debate
This was a wonderful discussion at CSULB titles "The Future of Our Dinner Plate" where we debated the nutrition, ethics, and environmental factors of keeping meat off of our dinner plates.
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We believe in feeding large populations regenerative, nutrient rich, and diverse plant foods that can provide all of the nutrients we have identified are necessary.
Fiber, oxalates, lectins, etc do NOT irritate a healthy gut. The only reason plant foods irritate ones GI is because of the damage already done to the GI and microbiome.
The question then becomes "How do I fix the damage done?"
This question usually has more than one answer, but one of the answers will definitely be plants. Plants (starchy vegetables, non-starchy vegetables, sea vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, seeds and fermented plant foods) will contain the building blocks not just for your human tissue, but for the TRILLIONS of microbes in your body.
Here are some specific reasons why we leave animal products out of our diet:
1. There is nothing in animal products that you can't get from plants.
2. Animal products do not contain antioxidants, phytonutrients, oxalates, lectins, salicylates, phytates, and fiber. (all of which microbes love to eat)
3. Animals all have a living microbiome that has a relationship with the animal. Once the animal dies/is slaughtered these microbes begin evacuating, dying, and the microbes that thrive on animal flesh remain to digest the animal itself. They create byproducts like: esters, ketones, aldehydes, hydrocarbons, alcohols, benzenoids, terpenoids, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds, amines, volatile fatty acids, and other endotoxins. You can cook and kill the microbes on the animal carcass (chicken breast, fish fillet, sirloin, etc) but you cannot kill the byproducts these microbes have produced. These enter your body when eating the animal and can create systemic inflammation.
4. We are now seeing the rise of "superbugs" which are antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. We can bring these into our homes unknowingly when we bring animal products into our home.
5. Heme iron from animals is inflammatory.
6. Saturated fat from animals is inflammatory
7. Animals can bioaccumulate toxins just like us. The bigger the animal and the more fat the animal has the more likely it will contain bioaccumulated toxins like heavy metals, pesticides, PCB's, Dioxins and many more.
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