Fitness

To wrap up this extended series on food, I'll summarize most of it in the form of advice: Eat what you feel is right for you. The more you learn and think about food the more you'll enjoy it. Anyone who tells you what you should or shouldn't eat is moralizing and meddling. Eating has no right or wrong. In the time I've written this series I've eaten more vegetables than ever. Now that I started using the Vitamixer my mom left me, when a friend who is a personal trainer came over and I told him I bought kale for the first time, we decided to buy and blend $50 worth of fruits and vegetables. We bought red kale, green kale, broccoli, apples, cilantro,…

Following up my series on liberating ourselves from moralists, meddlers, and others who want to impose their subjective values on us in the name of objective truth in the realm of food, let's continue with anatomy, the next on my list of a few days ago. This reason makes little sense to me, but I hear it regularly. People who eat meat point out things like that most predators have eyes that face forward and so do we, so we should eat meat. Or that we have a long digestive tract or can't produce vitamin B12 so we should eat meat. People who don't eat meat point out some comparable physical characteristic that they use to say others should or shouldn't eat meat. I like…

Following up my series on liberating ourselves from moralists, meddlers, and others who want to impose their subjective values on us in the name of objective truth in the realm of food, let's continue with religion, the next on my list of a few days ago. I expect this would-be reason to be a non-issue for obvious reasons. Well, first, I don't belong to any religion that has any rules requiring or forbidding eating meat, so religion doesn't apply to me as a reason to eat meat or not. I think most people get that their belonging to a religion doesn't impose rules on other people. They mostly understand some semblance of tolerance for others following their religions, even if they feel compelled to impose…

Following up my series on liberating ourselves from moralists, meddlers, and others who want to impose their subjective values on us in the name of objective truth in the realm of food, let's continue with feeling closer to nature, the next on my list of a few days ago. I can keep this post as brief as yesterday. Both meat eaters and non-meat eaters claim their eating habits bring them closer to nature. Hunters claim hunting feels primal and puts them in tune with nature and the animals they hunt. Fishers claim similar feelings. Likewise, people who don't eat meat claim avoiding meat makes them feel bonded with all of nature and to feel more compassion for living creatures. If you've read my series on…

Following up my series on liberating ourselves from moralists, meddlers, and others who want to impose their subjective values on us in the name of objective truth in the realm of food, let's continue with animal cruelty, the next on my list of a few days ago. I'll keep this brief. Once an animal is born, it has to die. Killing it for meat doesn't mean it feels more pain. In fact, killing it intentionally can create the opportunity for it to feel less pain than it would have felt if it died not by human hands. If not for humans, some predator or parasite would likely kill it, and likely more painfully. I don't eat meat, but I don't accept that a human killing…