In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

As far as I can recall, I haven't seen anybody argue against this...?

The prevailing attitude I perceive from the most vocal of the meat-eaters is "I can eat as much meat as I want...it is my right...it is my choice" with no distinction made as to how much, or whether it is truly necessary for the individual metabolism.

No matter how you slice it, there is no way it could be argued that people 'need' bacon for breakfast, a hamburger for lunch, and chicken for dinner. Except for maybe very rare medical conditions, no one needs that much meat. Americans eat something like 4 times as much meat as the Chinese, and have correspondingly 4 times as much heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, etc. (If I remember correctly...don't quote me on the exact percentage, but it was something like that.)

In fact, I thought I was arguing in support of this by encouraging people to go within and connect with their inner diet guru, rather than relying so heavily on external sources. And, as I also recall, you agreed with this view.

That's not quite accurate. I agreed that it would be helpful to 'go within' to ascertain the root issues pertaining to addictions, etc. but I strongly disagreed with doing that, to decide on diet. I explained why I disagreed: Because of addictions. When there is an addiction, the voice that will be heard is the voice of the addiction. And I stated that meat is another addiction.