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As I open this conversation, I want to make it known first and foremost that it is not my place to push my beliefs or perspectives on anyone. That will never be my intent in life.

My sole purpose of this article and video is to help individuals with their health and help them to see life through a wide lens and really approach every topic they come across with as many perspectives as possible.

I am choosing to have no bias in this conversation, I ask if you’re here that you do the same. Please be open-minded to learning and seeing things from multiple perspectives and then make the informed decision yourself to live your life the way you want.

With that being said, I will never shame anyone for making an intentional decision for their health. If you’re consciously choosing to make a decision that’s going to support your health then that’s applaudable. I will always cheer you on.

My aim of this article and video below is not to shame anyone nor is it to tell you that you’re wrong if you don’t consume animals.

My sole purpose of this article is to provide a well-rounded explanation of this topic in order to help individuals with their health problems.

Understanding Food Morality

When it comes to the conversation of diet, we must talk about morality of consuming another animal simply because it’s a huge contributing factor that influences whether or not an individual eats a certain food or not.

And when it comes to excluding a major food group like animal meats and organs, this topic is one that most certainly needs to be had especially for us living in the 21st century with the advent of social media, science overload, and opinions being tossed around left and right.

It’s very easy to get influenced by a community and health experts online preaching their way of eating is the best. Because of this, we often forget what it means to eat a human diet in the context of nature.

Being told what to eat by a scientist studying cultures in a lab is entirely different than being told what to eat by a hunter-gatherer who spent her entire life living off nature.

You will learn far more about what it means to eat a human diet from spending just a few days in nature than you will spending decades reading studies in a lab.

I’ve read thousands upon thousands of studies over the course of the years, but what I learned in a weekend hunting and surviving off the land taught me more about what it means to eat an optimal human diet.

Is it Ethical to eat another animal?

If you’re blessed enough to be reading this on your tablet or mobile device, then I feel it’s safe to say that you and I are pretty privileged.

Odds are, you only know what life on this earth is like with grocery stores, cars, planes, electric run homes, fossil fuels, John Deere equipment, and other modern day luxuries that make access to nutrition a lot easier.

However, as I like to remind folks, it didn’t always use to be this way.

It seems so normal for us now, doesn’t it? Life would seem abnormal without planes flying overhead, no cars driving by, a lack of refrigerators in our home, and no grocery store in our hometown to visit.

While these luxuries are our normal now, I ask the question…

Are these normal? Or are these luxuries the real abnormality?

I’m grateful for them, yes! But are they also not the cause of a lot of problems? Do they not also skew our perception of what a real human reality has always been?

Because everything I just mentioned was invented within the past 100 years. And it’s these same luxuries that makes it possible to survive off of a 100% vegan diet in the short term.

Imagine if we didn’t have planes exporting goods from all over the world, refrigerators keeping our foods fresh for days on end, or grocery stores housing all the foods and supplements we need to sustain livelihood.

What did our great-grandfathers do to source out their food? What did their grandfathers do before them?

When you ask these questions and look further into it, you will see that no culture ever in our known hominid lineage ever lived solely on plant products. They always tried to find readily available protein and fat in their area.

You can watch any episode of the hit TV show Alone and see how nature really works in the real world. While this is a TV show and the individuals are alone, we need community, we need support from others to be healthy. So don’t misinterpret me.

I’m not saying that we are supposed to live like the contestants on Alone. I’m simply using it as an example to help you understand that protein and fat is really hard to come by in nature, and it’s really only readily available in every environment from another living animal. Protein is not widely available, nor is it that bioavailable in plants.

We hunted animals. Albeit, we did it in a massively different way than we do today.

Animal death is different in our world today

We didn’t confine cows to feedlot farms, torture them, and slaughter them just for the sake of progress and to make a profit.

Rather, our ancestors hunted because it was a necessity for their survival. Just as it is the same for other carnivorous animals to hunt their prey for survival.

If it is immoral for us to eat another animal, is it immoral for lions, tigers, bears, sharks, and your beloved pet dog or cat to eat other animals as well? Why is it only immoral for our species to eat another animal when we’ve been doing it for our entire human existence?

Is it immoral for our hunter-gather Hadza brothers and sisters to hunt to sustain their livelihood? Is it immoral for them to hunt in ways they’ve done for thousands of years?

Or are you and I just so far removed in our domesticated way of life that we have forgotten what it means to truly be human? So far removed that we no longer know what the optimal human diet is?

When one generation is born growing up believing one thing, it gets passed on to the next generation. And so on and so forth. Then just in the matter of a few generations you can easily see how we’ve forgotten what life was like for our great-grandfathers and their fathers before them.

While I grew up spending my teenage years ethically hunting and gathering, most people do not know what it’s like to kill another animal.

They only know what it’s like to eat meat from the butcher, Subway, McDonald’s, or the buffet line. Meat to them is ground, sliced, and cubed already prepared for the cooking process.

It’s not only absurdly easy to access, but the hard (and might I mention compassionate) part is already done for them.

People no longer know how to source their food. Which, by default means that people no longer understand the level of compassion that goes into killing another animal that’s going to nourish their body.

We eat animals unconsciously and don’t hesitate throwing away scraps off our plate. We eat food ungratefully and never bat an eye when we throw away the parts of the animals we don’t want to eat.

When you hunt and kill out of necessity nourish your own body, you will understand the level of compassion I’m talking about.

I took that animal’s life. I am now obligated to live a really freaking awesome life. It makes me want to be a better person. It makes me want to live an awesome life so I can honor that animal. That’s something we’ve forgotten.

I no longer can eat ground beef without giving a massive amount of thanks. I can no longer consume another animal that was raised in a feedlot farm without feeling shame and guilt for that life.

Once again, we’ve been raised in a culture in which we are so far removed from our human roots that we no longer remember what our roots even are. And in order to feed our 8 billion person population, all we know are animals being raised in CAFOs that are treated terribly.

There’s a massive difference between consuming an animal raised in that setting versus eating an animal you hunted and killed so you could survive. And the latter is how it’s always been.

Never let your ideology override your biology

All these modern day luxuries we have now make eating a vegan diet doable in the short term - supplements, protein powders, planes, cars, grocery stores, and two day shipping from anywhere in the world.

But what does your biology expect? Your biology expects food in your local environment. That’s really it.

It’s not to say that you can’t use these things. Absolutely you can! I do nearly every day. But we can’t get so far removed that we adopt luxurious modern day beliefs that we forget about our own basics needs for human health.

And the truth of the matter is that humans are designed to eat meat - as long as it’s done ethically, sustainably, and responsibly.

It’s impossible to meet all the nutritional requirements on a vegan diet without supplementation. And our living bodies expect fresh, living food. It gets easier to meet your nutritional requirements if you start exporting goods from all over the world to help get in essential nutrients, but even then we will come up short.

Yet, we still have vegan documentary’s with cherry-picked epidemiological science saying that plant-based diets are the way to go for better health, and better health of the environment. It just doesn’t hold any weight in the interventional literature.

But, how do we eat meat ethically and sustainably with a population of nearly 8 billion humans? This is a monumental question that no one has the answer to.

Once again, our staggering human population is a relatively new phenomenon as well.

If you are over the age of 50, you have lived long enough to see the world’s population double.

In the year 1970 the world’s population was ~3.5 billion humans. Shortly before that in the year 1900 it was below 2 billion.

And in the year 1700, the human population was about 600 million.

For thousands upon thousands of years our species was living one particular way without overpopulating itself. Yet, we’ve made so many technological advancements only ever so recently in the time you and I have been alive that our species has seen unprecedented rates of explanation.

Our biology expects to consume animal products in an ancestrally consistent way of hunting wild game. But when we have a population that has risen so rapidly with the technology that we have invented, it’s very easy to see how this can be a massive problem.

In order to feed our population we’ve needed to plant fields of mass grown monocrops and raise animals in feedlot farms. This isn’t OK and it’s this new form of agriculture that’s the reason for the health of our human species and the health of our planet.

Final thoughts

You are an animal and you need to nourish your body too. If you are avoiding eating animals because of your beliefs, and your health is not where you want it to be, then ask yourself is what you’re believing in worth it?

I’m very careful what my beliefs are. I trust them, but I always do my best to verify them as well. Verify your beliefs. Be critical of them. Read science that goes against your beliefs. Listen to experts that go against your beliefs. Don’t be an echo chamber. I was once and it limited my potential. Stay unbiased and always open-minded to learning new information. It’s the only way you’ll grow.

I, too, was plant-based for the same reasons. I thought eating plant-based was better for the environment. I thought it was better for my health. And I thought it was morally right to do so.

But I began to see life differently and realized that none of the above pillars held any weight. Plant-based does not automatically mean it’s better for the environment. Meat is not bad for your health.

And to address the moral aspect of eating animals, well, I wish everyone could spend just a few days in nature without the ability to access grocery stores, cell phones, and exported goods just to see what being human is really like.

And again, if your health is great eating a vegan diet and you’re not taking supplements, then by all means keep at it! I’m not here to pass judgement or place my beliefs on you. I’m simply here to show you a different perspective.

When I went plant-based for a period of time, I did feel better. But it’s because I was now health conscious. I cut out processed foods and ate more whole food options, prioritized sleep, exercised, journaled, and did all the things right. Of course my health improved! But eventually I realized I needed more nutrients in my diet that only meat and organs from my environment could provide me.

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