What Should Humans Eat?
Today, world is divided on what we should eat and what we shouldn't, how to eat and when to eat. Science, religions, traditions, tastes, health, spirituality, nutrition, morality, scriptures, culture and everything comes into play for our choices. The debate about our food has no end. Everyone has his/her own arguments and logic for his/her choice. But what is right and what is wrong has never been resolved until today.
In the following "edited / assembled" video, the most commonly argued points on eating habits of Muslims & Hindus has been put up between Dr. Zakir Naik and the Indian Mystic, Sadhguru:
After watching this video, please let me know your opinion on it:
- Which of these arguments you consider reasonable for our consideration?
- Do you agree with any of these?
- Are both of these wrong? Then what's truth according to you?
In our country we have a so called 5 item to eat/drink thing. I'm not sure how it exactly works by heart. But you should eat every day something from each or is 5 categories. I think the categories are:
Interesting. Every region has some traditions that people keep following until they find something better. The thing to be noted is that traditions are not set in stone but are constantly evolving with the evolution of humans and our own societies.
Unfortunately, we have a strong resistance towards any change and want to maintain status quo in every respect. But progress demands some changes over time.
I am a man of reason, so I am going to say this: I like to eat meat mostly for the taste, but I do believe that the proportions really are important here. Meat is very easy to consume too much off.
The main problem I see is with the actual production being bad for both quality of the meat and towards the animals being mass produced just to be put to slaughter.
The worst offensive though is how this industry affects the ecology.
Good to know that you're aware of the adverse impacts of mass production of meat on our ecology while consuming meat. I can understand the taste as our conditioning and the way we are raised. However, everything has got some taste if we know to enjoy it and to my understandings, vegetation has got the most wonderful of tastes. In fact, today, several recipes have been developed to mimic the exact taste of meat.
Also, taste & deliciousness is related to our state of mind and hunger levels. In my country every region has its own traditional delicacies. The regional people enjoy those delicacies a lot but some outsiders just can't take it. So perhaps, we actually develop our tastes for something over a period of time and that can be easily altered too, as per our wishes.
To me the best is eat according to your health status
That's a good take but who will tell you what's good during a specific health status and on what basis?
I agree with you in this but I want to annex that the culture is part of it too, there are substitutes for several foods, in some cases more delicious than the originals, everything is a matter of mentalizing.
Yeah, I agree, culture plays an important role in developing our tastes since our childhood.
Primero que nada, que es un tema que es muy visto y llamativo que se alimenta al más vegetariano y que siempre es más natural, nutritivo y económico. Asi no dañamos el ecosistema como carnes, aves y pescado claro que es algo que debemos tener en nuestro plato pero pienso si comemos mas vegetales y menos se puede cambiar un poco el mundo y no solo eso muchas vidas se salvaran como tambien tu economia no se vera muy afectada y tendras mejores beneficios.
जी, बिलकुल सही कहा आपने। वनस्पति आधारित भोजन के अनेक लाभ है, अपितु यही एक रास्ता है, जिससे मानव प्रजाति अपना अस्तित्व बचा सकती है ...अन्य सभी प्रजातियों और अनुकूल पर्यावरण के साथ।
Honestly eat what your momma tells you to eat :)
Ha ha ha! Why not what your body tells you to?
We should eat what is healthy for us. That's all.
And who decides what's healthy for you? Now don't tell me Science of nutrition, it hardly knows anything!
We should eat what-ever we want to eat. We are on top of the food chain for a reason.
No Cannibalism --- Anything else is fine.
Why not cannibalism?
Well being at the top of food chain is a misnomer. Check this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexberezow/2013/12/03/humans-arent-at-the-top-of-the-food-chain/
We should consciously eat whatever is edible & healthy in a holistic sense.
We would have to kill each other if we were going to turn to cannibalism. I suppose it would solve the over-population problem.
Doesn't this mean we shouldn't be eating whatever we want?
We eat what we want aside from our own species/
You want to exclude your own species because you are concerned for your own life. Similarly, every sentient creature is concerned for his or her life too. The "strong can eat weak" argument gets to the point of cannibalism and hence we become speciesist. The question is why should we discriminate on the basis of species when we oppose discrimination on the basis of caste, race, colour & gender?
I never said I fear for my own life as my argument against cannibalism. You came to that conclusion yourself. Anything that is going to be killed and eaten should be concerned for their lives when around those things that will eat them.
Okay, so are you talking about calories? Because prions can be avoided by sparing the part called brain.
Well, plant-based sources like cereals, beans and nuts have way more calories than animal based products. Plants are the primary producer of food so, I think, we can get more nutrients while consuming directly from source. But I don't think our choices are actually based on calories. Are they?
I posted a video that had multiple reasons as to why cannibalism is a bad Idea. Lack of calories was just one aspect of that video.
Las comidas se consumen tres veces al dia, mañana (desayuno), medio dia (almuerzo), tarde (cena), las comidas deben ser balanceadas, lamentablemente el video no lo puedo ver, en Venezuela el internet es muy malo, cariños y besos @xyzashu.
Well the video is about arguments for and against consumption of meat by humans between two different spiritual personalities. I guess, you can download it over a slow connection for a smooth viewing later.
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