Jeffrey Masson Explores "Why Do You Eat Meat?"

[rjkennedy98]

All I know is that nothing tastes better than a good steak. You figure out how to do it without killing cows and I'll hop on the bandwagon.

[qwondoflex]

Humans can THRIVE without ingesting any animal products.

[1imesub]

I never knew Cesar Chavez was vegan.  Thanks for the history lesson.

[1imesub]

Even if the animals on that particular farm were "happy," it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things since 99% of meat comes from factory farms. Of course those "happy" animals are sent to the same slaughterhouses as all the other animals.

[ruthiness]

This is all part of the UN Agenda 21 plot to control our food, keep us from HUNTING and FARMING. They are attacking our very lifestyle. Gee I wonder how many VEGANS are at the UN? Meanwhile, these same people have no qualms about sucking a human life from a woman's womb to avoid being "punished with a child"

[DeadFishFactory]

@ruthiness Oh god, I feel as if you're a vegan masquerading as a person who eats meat, posting troll comments just to make meat-eaters look bad.

[ruthiness]

@DeadFishFactory - well you just have to do a little research to see that it is clearly part of Agenda 21 to force us all to "eat only locally grown food". The same people pushing Agenda 21 (World Wildlife Foundation are one of the big groups at the top) are aligned with PETA and global warmers and it is well known that the global warmers feel that eating meat contributes to "global warming". How does that make anyone look bad except the totalitarians who support the UN and globalism?

[ruthiness]

That's funny - the latest thing is the Paleo Diet and Primal Blueprint - which means EATING MEAT and by all accounts that has been THE BEST DIET FOR HUMANS - MEAT VEGETABLES SEEDS NUTS FRUIT. MEAT IS NEEDED BY HUMANS

[ruthiness]

Another self-hating liberal. If you want to be a vegan go ahead but leave the rest of us alone! Vegans are often iron deficient because WE ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT MEAT. Are you going to chastise predators in the wild for killing other animals too? Gee why is that? Because they are SUPPOSED TO EAT MEAT AND SO ARE WE.

[vegansrock82]

@ruthiness, animals in the wild that are biological carnivores are hard wired to eat animals. They have no choice. We do, and our digestive systems are ill equipped to cope with it. i have a very long term vegan friend whose iron is fine, as is mine.. Did you know that we produce our own cholesterol and don't need to intake any more, that it is harmful? It leads to heart attacks, stroke etc. you cannot find cholesterol in plant foods, and you cannot produce atherosclerosis in a true carnivore.

[TDP788]

but as of now, like most people, i am a meat eater, yet i agree with everything this guy is saying. i just dont feel any remorse for them. i am a predator. i am an animal, and so are you. who says eating animals is immoral? god? then why did he create a world where lions eat zebras? whales eat krill? etc. etc? EVERYTHING IS EATING EVERYTHING THAT IS THE WAY THINGS ARE. we live and we die. maybe it will change in the future. who knows

[Turbochargedss]

@TDP788 "we live and we die" seems weird doesnt it? why do people just disappear? only they know the truth about life.

[TDP788]

i agree with everything about vegetarianism and not eating meat. i understand. but the problem is alternatives are more expensive and they are foreign to us. Not only that but we have a natural taste for meat, unami. people like eating meat, and they dont feel bad because they dont see the animals slaughtered so they have no emotional connection. i think the paradigm will slowly change the more educated people become and the more aware they are of other possibilities

[neighborlee]

Meat is poison, and you can verify that by viewing video having to deal with subject which is what doctors should tell you about diet as It is very educational and

Besides that its not just about poison as its about morality because How would we feel if it was animals vs. us and we were not the top species and had to deal with our slaughter by animals as Just because they are animals does not mean they do not deserve empathy meaning It is apathetic to do less.

[daro2096]

The animals are all diseased now. Cows have cancers and mad cows disease. Sheep have their version of mad cows disease. A lot of animals have TB. Sea life is contaminated with toxins, radiactive pollution. Eggs have salminella(spelling?). Milk has blood, pooh, pus and urine in it as well as antibotics and growth hormones.

Switch from a meat diet to a vegan diet asap.

[volapuk49]

This man has a very long history of subterfuge and dishonesty.

Read the expose of him in The New Yorker by investigative journalist, writer Janet Malcolm.

I have just finished reading In the Freud Archives by this author for the second time.

After you read this best-selling book on Mr. Masson you will think twice about anything he says.

[TheAnimalHolocaust]

Thank you for uploading this video. Fascinating.

Is there a place where the entire speech can be seen?

[BradLarsen2007]

I only have this edited version of the talk. I did include the highpoints. Glad you enjoyed it.

[magiluk1]

Well, life is a death camp then.

"I look into the eye of an animal and I see sth very similar that I see in humans" Yep and dolphins are happy animals because they are laughing all the time. What a good reason.

[chrisnoaro1]

Excellent clip, he's speaking at Parliament in Wellington on 29 May

[SecondBonham]

@EdwardNS: Nuts can be eaten raw. They have much fat and proteins. We actually DO NOT KNOW if stoneagegers really ate mainly meat. Men have no claws, no "vampire teeth", like cats. Before inventing weapons, we must have been vegan for thousands of years. Or at least "insekto-vegan". Our teeth are more like those of a horse e.g. And on an open field or in the woods, men aren't even capable to catch mice without weapons.

[huronestepario]

I think there's something to think about when people start treating animals as human beings.

[Retrieverman1]

Why is that so many vegans are so authoritarian?

A woman has a right to choose.

And we all have a right to choose what we eat.

I see no difference.

[MargarettaL]

Does anyone else think it's weird that we make food out of the reproductive by-products of other species? I mean, eating another animal's embryos...I'm surprised there aren't more pro-life vegans.

[Rietto]

Because most Pro-Lifers don't care about living things AFTER they're born. How many Pro-Lifers do you know that support mandatory childhood healthcare? But they want to mandate forced-birth on women they don't even know. How many Pro-Lifers do you know that are also anti-war? They love 'potential' lives more than actual ones.

[BTC141]

I was vegetarian for 4 and a half years and I gained weight in my gut and butt, it ruined my lower back and I was constantly fatigued and tired. I'm O- blood type and found out that I need to eat meat protein. I don't eat beef, chicken or pork. I only eat free range organic chicken, bison and ostrich. I understand what this guy is preaching but eat meat in moderation not to excess...that's what I'm preaching.

[MargarettaL]

BTC141: yeah, I've heard that some people really need to watch it when they drop meat out of their diets. Our bodies are all so different. Glad to hear you're feeling better!

[BTC141]

MargarettaL: my intentions for going vegetarian were good but I should have researched things much better than I did. In fact, for dinner tonight I ate a small bison steak with veggies and a small portion of rice. I have since lost 25 lbs. and brought my lower back into proper alignment. Take care MargarettaL.

[sonyhotmail16]

This is so true. There really is no excuse for eating meat these days.

[EdwardNS1]

humans eat meat because they are omnivores

and because we can... why else do humans do anything else

besides it taste good and I don't really relish the though of eating beans and nuts for my proteins...

I'm eating smoked turkey right know and I'm loving every bite of it you should try some...

oh and humans are NOT herbivores

[Mentat1231]

Humans are behavioral omnivores. They are anatomical herbivores.

You don't need beans and nuts for protein. Starches provide plenty of protein.

Meat doesn't taste good, or else you wouldn't need to smoke, salt, and season the turkey you are eating. Your pet cat can taste the raw bloody turkey with pleasure, just as you would taste a tangerine with pleasure.

A carnivore has taste buds for amino acids, we do not. We have taste buds for fruit, a carnivore does not.

[EdwardNS1]

humans started out eating meat you know the Cro-Magnon's and all those ancient humans. we were scavengers that ate meat the only reason we started eating plants is because we became smarter and were like "hey meats isn't the only edible thing." If humans never became smarter we would probably be carnivores.

Almost every thing taste's bad if raw.

Fruit doesn't have enough protein so forget about that.

Blood does taste okay(kinda salty iron taste).

we don't drink it because it SEEMS gross.

[Mentat1231]

Hominids "started out" long before they were cro-magnons. Every related species is herbivorous/frugivorous. Australopithecus leaned toward tubers/starches, and so should their descendants (aka: us). Human beings have short, diseased lives when we eat meat. The closer a society gets to veganism, the longer the lifespan and the fewer the chronic diseases (re: the China Study and the Okinawa Program).

Blood doesn't "seem" gross to a carnie/omni. I didn't mention cooking, I referred to seasoning.

[EdwardNS1]

Truth is people eat meat because

1: it tastes good. So what if its gross raw almost everything is gross raw, when I say raw I also mean without any seasoning to.

2: a tradition or something

I can live a normal healthy live without being a vegetarian, and I'm pretty sure a lot of other people can to.

but all and all I eat meat because it tastes good.

there are certain countries where the people drink animal blood and there healthy.

vegetable's, starches etc are also gross without seasoning.

[Mentat1231]

People who drink animal blood are not healthy. Even eating undercooked meat will make you sick. Eating undercooked rice will not harm you.

Vegetables are not "gross" without seasoning. Starches do taste better with seasonings. But consider this: Are the seasonings/sauces made from meat or from vegetable sources.

When you put sauces and spices on meat, you are making it taste like a vegetable (say, a pepper, or a tomato). Why would we do that?

[EdwardNS1]

I put salt on my meat nothing else.

blood and raw meat will make you sick if its infected, if its clean/uninfected and from a healthy animal then you wont fill sick. you might if your a pussy *ahem*.

Blood is also rich in Iron.

watch Man vs Wild...

take a potato from a farm cook and eat it.

Meat isn't gross with out seasoning.

the fat makes it taste better. The seasonings/sauces have artificial flavors in them and salt. Salt makes anything taste good.

[Mentat1231]

Blood and raw meat is typically infected with some pathogen or other. It doesn't mean the animal was sick, merely that it was an animal. Even our own muscle tissue is full of pathogens that would make us sick if we tried to eat one another.

The point is that true carnivores and true omnivores have enough stomach acid, etc, to kill off e. coli and salmonella and trichinosis. We simply do not.

Yes, we have taste buds for salt as well. But we have none for protein. Cats do.

[daro2096]

@EdwardNS1

Flaxseed is high in iron too. So is kale and other dark green foods. There is disease in the blood. The fat is bad for you.

You don't need meat.

[EdwardNS1]

@daro2096

lol?

I need meat it tastes good.

Every time I eat meat I always think and mentally laugh at you vegans because you guys are missing out.

[daro2096]

@EdwardNS1

Well if you want cancers, TB and other diseases go right ahead.

[EdwardNS1]

@daro2096

That is really ignorant of you if you assume everyone that eats meat gets TB, cancer etc.

I know a lot of healthy people who eat meat and haven't had a major disease yet.

And if that was the case then the majority of of humans on earth would be diseased which isn't the case.

You vegans just overexaggerate about meat and try too hard.

The more you guys try the more I laugh and eat meat.

[daro2096]

@EdwardNS1

Do you know the history of the animal you are eating? Do you know a farmer will send an animal to slaughter because it is diseased? Do you know that at a slaughterhouse if they find a cancerous tumor in an animal they will cut out the tumor and send the rest of the animal on to human consumption?

The majority of humans are diseased. Heart disease caused by too much animal fat in the diet. China Study found eating more than 11% animal fat triggers cancer.

[EdwardNS1]

@daro2096

Yeah thats why you cook, fry etc the meat.

I love how you guys make it seem like if you eat meat you are guaranteed to die from it.

Humans have been eating meat for thousandths of years and we aren't extinct. Why should we stop now and become a bunch of freaks that love animals a bit too much?

My family has been eating meat for as long as I know and no one died from meat same with everyone I know.

[daro2096]

@EdwardNS1

Cooking does not destroy the prions, the viruses, etc.

[EdwardNS1]

@daro2096

Yeah well none of meat was diseased yet so its good.

[daro2096]

@EdwardNS1

How do you know?

[EdwardNS1]

@daro2096

Cause I'm not dead yet and the last time I checked with the doctor I was healthy.

I swear you guys make meat sound like poison.