Myth #22: “But I need to eat meat for my blood type.”

This theory, primarily made famous by the best-selling book “Eat Right 4 Your Type”, claims that humans must match their diets with their blood types in order to maintain optimum health — and more specifically, that those individuals having type-O blood need to eat animal flesh in order to do so. Not only have I […]

Myth #23: “But I get headaches when I stop eating meat.”

We in the west have all to one degree or another been conditioned to crave the taste of cooked flesh. And as such, it is quite reasonable to not only desire meat, but also to experience psychosomatic symptoms like headaches or dizziness or depression or even “the shakes” after choosing to stop eating meat and […]

Myth #24: “But meat tastes so good.”

Actually, uncooked & unseasoned meat does not naturally taste good to humans. We cook our meat to make it chewable and we season it to make it palatable, and then we become physiologically addicted to it, which makes it seem as though it “tastes good”.  In reality, meat is objectively repulsive to humans, which is […]

Myth #25: “But I’m a meat eater. Mmmmm … Bacon!”

Seriously?!? It just might interest you to know that the vast majority of the pigs (that are noticeably more intelligent than – and just as self-aware as — your beloved dog, by the way) that go into your bacon were born into truly horrific conditions — tails sheared off and teeth cut out and testicles […]