As for killing humans, who said it’s wrong? Our species has been doing so since we first figured out how. It’s called war. It’s called profit. It’s called self-protection.

We have laws against letting the little people kill each other, and those same laws protect the powerful among us while they go about the globe wiping out other aggressors over territory and resources.

Without war (and microbes) reducing the population, where would we be? Especially with all those foolish people thinking the command given to Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiple was meant for them, too!

At least most of us aren’t cannibals like our long-lost cousins, the chimpanzees.

It really sucks the first few times you eat over 10 bananas (I’ve eaten 23 in one sitting). My girlfriend used to HATE bananas, just didn’t like them AT ALL. Now I can’t keep her away from them. It’s all about spending a little time on the diet, not getting down on yourself for cheating here and there, and letting your body develop a desire for the sugars and the volume. I promise it’s inside every one of us. It’s easier for some to adjust than others, but if we had all started as infants, we wouldn’t be having this dialog.

I’d also like to add that vegans who are excitable and ‘militant’ are the unlucky ones. The reason that they act this way is that they see the injustices around them and feel nearly powerless to change them. They have few options to help, and one of them is yelling at you.

You can believe that morality is one’s own personal choice, and you can draw the line wherever seems right to you. But if I decided that I didn’t think it was wrong to kill a human, you would be perfectly reasonable to try to convince me otherwise. It’s wrong to YOU, not me.
Doesn’t that sound a little silly??

Apple and oranges.

In almost every case (and maybe absolutely every case), it’s that the diet isn’t being executed correctly. It takes a lot of trial and error to re-learn what we should have spent the first 15 years of our lives learning. And if you had grown up eating that type of volume, it wouldn’t seem weird at all.

I thrive on the 80/10/10 diet, but I had my rough patches, too. Times when I thought that I should try something different.

Fact is, we DON’T need different things. This is a huge myth, perpetuated by peoples’ desire for an easier way. Fruits and vegetables have it all, whatever your body could need, in the highest concentration per calorie. What more is there to know?

Have you tried blended salads? You know, throw them in a blender or food processor so they get chopped up small.

If you want some of the benefits of meat without the heavy load, you could always make bone broths. Make some bone broth for a nice minestrone soup. That way you get some protein, fat and gelatin.

I decided, in May of this year, to do a 30 day trial of the paleo diet. I blogged about it on my website. I write a great deal over the course of the 30 days about my own process of disillusionment and evolution away from the vegan diet:

http://www.my-healthy-eating-secrets.com/paleo-diet.html

Thanks for your thoughtful article…

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