Are Humans Meat-Eaters?
“Meat” is the dead flesh of animals, fish or birds. Putrefaction (decay) begins in all flesh from the moment of death. This process of decomposition results in various poisons collecting in the dead animal tissue. Most cases of food poisoning are the result of eating bad meat or meat products, i.e. canned meat, shellfish, etc. The longer the time from the death of your meat to your mouth, the more dangerous it is to you. Meat contains a high proportion of cholesterol (an important causative factor in thrombosis, high blood pressure etc.) with no lecithin (nature’s antidote) to balance it. (All vegetable proteins, on the other hand, contain lecithin to naturally counterbalance it!) Meat is not a suitable item of diet for the human being for the following anatomical and physiological reasons: • Flesh-eating mammals have a short bowel to enable them to expel rapidly the putrefactive flesh, while man has a long and complicated alimentary tract to enable plant nutrients to be slowly and pro