PETA Beclowns Itself

 I don't usually report on PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because they are usually silly beyond words.   The latest, reported in the American Thinker by Eric Utter tries to convince us to become vegans. The piece is titled PETA says 'supremacy' is why people think it's 'okay' to eat other animals. Of course, they are wrong on all counts, but let's start with this:

Okay. And why does PETA think it's okay for animals to eat other animals?

The organization was certainly well prepared for that query, and replied via tweet: “Most of the animals who kill for food could not survive if they didn’t. That's not the case for us. We are capable of making ethical decisions.”

Yes, because, as you just admitted, we are superior.

As one who eats a carnivore diet, which is as close to zero carbohydrates as possible, I have studied the proper human diet fairly thoroughly. The proper human diet is one that our ancient prehistoric ancestors  themselves at for hundreds of thousands of years. They were eating basically a carnivore diet before they became Homo Sapiens. If you have ever walked through the woods, did you see any broccolli, brussels sprouts, cabbages? Indeed, besides the occasional fruits in season like raspberries, our ancient ancestors would find little sustenance in plants. And anthropology has shown this to be true. It also has shown that our ancient hunter gatherers were tall, strongly built, and showed little disease and few cavities.

Anthropolgy also shows us that with the advent of agriculture and the eating of a grain based diet around 10,000 years ago, we suddenly were shorter, had caviities, and many of the diseases of civilization including obesity. Men's lives went from an average of 60-70 years down to 30 years.

Many years ago I read a book by Lierre Keith entitled The Vegetarian Myth which includes Keith's 20 years as a vegetarian. She documents the slow degradation of her health due to the fact that vegtables quite rightly don't want to be eaten and fight back with various toxins that upset your gut and antinutrients that disrupt your uptake of vitamins and minerals. Sshe was exhausted all the time.  Eating a grain based diet caused men to become short, stunted, and sick, and it is still doing it to vegetarians. 

In additon, she points out that she was one of the principled vegetariams who did't want to kill anything. But she discovered that by plowing up the soil to plant crops one kills the entire ecosystem that thrived on that piece of land, not to metion the worms and bacteria that undergird the environment.

How does PETA explain their disdain for those animals and for this ecosystem? They may not be eating the animals, but they are certainly killing them. I don't see a difference really, do you?

Besides that, of all the agricultural land in the world, fully two thirds is marginal and not suitable for crops, but we can raise ruminant animals such as sheep, goats, cattle and feed more people a proper human diet. The proper human diet is one of the range of ketogenic diets, of which the carmnivore is the most extreme. You can read about the proper human diet here 

PETA has once again beclowned itself with its half baked ideology.