Not a vegan!

When I was young my father said "Gal I have something to say” 

And what he told me, I'll never forget until my dyin' day

He said, "Gal, you will be a non-veg lass and that's the way to stay

Gal,  stay off hay and grass until your dyin’ day’                                                                           

As time goes by, I probably will get cholesterol problem and so on

Then I may have to eat shoots and leaves and join the rest of the clan 
Until then I will be Non veg lass and that’s the way I will stay

Happy to be a non-veg lass till my dyin’ day

(credit to Cliff Richard’s Bachelor Boy)

That’s the story on why I am a die hard non-veggie. I firmly believe that man is essentially an Omnivore, meaning he can eat anything and that includes non- vegetarian foods.

Vegetarians, Lacto vegetarians and Ova-vegetarians, I present to you my case on why man was designed to eat animal protein.

Back in the cave-man days, men who could not hunt, ride a horse or throw a spear were called vegetarians and ate grass, leaves and fruits which grew near the caves. 

Strictly speaking a person who has milk, butter and cheese is not a vegetarian as these are sourced from animals too.One could call them lacto-vegetarians. And then we have Ova-vegetarian (Egg eaters) and then the Pescetarians (Sea animal eaters)

Now moving on to more scientific thinking.

EVIDENCE NO-1    All animal based protein source like meat, chicken, eggs and diary products require an acid base for digestion. Fruits and vegetables require an alkaline medium. The ability of carnivores  to secrete Hydrocloric Acid is exceptional. MAN HAS AN ACID PH. If he was designed to be a vegetarian, why does he have an acidic pH?

EVIDENCE NO-2  If man is truly a vegetarian as the vegetarians claim that we are, then we should be having the enzyme called Cellulase like the cattle to digest cellulose… ( you may know this as ‘fibre’)  MAN DOES NOT PRODUCE CELLULASE …never did and probably never will.

EVIDENCE NO- 3 . Our intestinal length is about 23 feet about 7 times the body length from mouth -to- end of spine.. Cats and dogs have 4 times the length and horse and cattle have about 20 times. We are somewhere in between suggesting that we were designed to eat both.

EVIDENCE NO- 4 . Our dentition is suited both to tackle bones and vegetables. Check it out... we have pointed teeth and flat teeth as well. 

EVIDENCE NO- 5 . We have a simple single chamber stomach unlike the grass eating animals    

RELATED STUFF - There was a news report in Tamil daily on 3rd Dec 2012 that a goat was found eating cooked mutton... Damn... This cannibalism has got money written over it !! We may soon have lamb-fed lamb at the stores. 

Vegans ... I am ready to hear your point of view.