At Darwin’s Table

I wrote a post a long time ago about a study I had found that showed how a strictly vegetarian diet may not be as good for you as we think. I have had many responses (many by offended vegetarians) and thought that it might be time for another controversial post on this topic just to add some more wood to the fire (to cook our meat of course). Here it is.

In evolutionary terms our biochemical inheritance indicates that we must have been eating fish fats as our brains evolved and became what they are today (read this post), and you can’t find fish fats on the savannah or in plants. The human brain could not have developed as it did if we had not moved out of the savannah and along the shorelines, eating seafood. DHA, one of the fish fats, is a major part of the make-up of our nerve-cell membranes and was critical in the development and evolution of our large sized brains! Fish oils (omega 3) are also vital for the health of our cardiovascular system – there is no argument about that. This is why not eating fish, especially oily fish, could be a major reason why there is so many mental illnesses found in western civilization such as schizophrenics, depressives etc.

It makes sense, in the developing foetus, 70 per cent of the energy that crosses the placenta is devoted to brain growth – and for that you need a really good blood supply. And the brain is 60 per cent fat and needs the Omega 3 fat DHA.  Vegetable oils don’t cut the mustard because to convert these oils (walnut, soya, rape seed, pumpkin, hemp seeds, whatever) to DHA is a slow and costly business for the body and when is the only time that homo sapiens do this….. in human breast milk. Thus, Omega 3 fats are important for the developing child! Studies have shown that children given fish oils show a major reduction in depression and a rise in their intelligence and ability to learn. So to be a vegetarian, to not eat fish, is anti evolution, and it is anti intelligence (case in point). The only thing I guess to escape from their depression is to comment on websites like this and convince themselves that vegetarianism is the right thing to do.

On a final note I would like to say that if you eat fish and you call yourself a vegetarian YOU ARE NOT. Fish is meat and fish are animals just like a cow. They have pain receptors and feel pain just like a cow. If you give a fish a painful stimuli it responds next time to avoid that stimuli – just like a cow. So please don’t think that your not hurting anything. You are and you are an omnivore  that kills things just like me.

Bring it!!!