Give Me 100 Thousand Years, And I’ll Make Cows Meat Eaters!!

Sanjeev posted this in Debate on July 17th, 2009

A lot of people in defense of meat eating say that ‘All available evidence indicates that the NATURAL human diet is Omnivorous and would include meat.” The proof given for this claim is the fact that archeological records, as far back as they can be traced, indicate an omnivorous diet for humans that included meat. It is stated that “our ancestry is among the hunter/gatherers from the beginning. Once domestication of food sources began, it included both animals and plants”.

Well according to me all that the available evidence indicates is that human diet has included meat for a very long time – and that is very different from stating that the natural human diet is omnivorous.

First we need to understand how man could have possibly started to eat meat:

It is certain that the first meat that man ever ate would have been of the animals that were cooked by the natural forest fire. I say “certain” because it is not possible for man to eat raw beef or similar meat.
If man ate raw meat of smaller and softer animals it is certain that his digestive system most likely rebelled to eating the raw meat (just as the digestive system of a lion rebels when it is fed grass) but they must have become adjusted to meat eating over a period of time. That is how meat must have become a part of man’s regular diets.
It is also possible that perhaps the prehistoric men who lived in frozen areas ate anything that they could to survive for lack of vegetation.

And then over a period of time man, whom nature made a vegetarian, became a meat eater. Eventually this led to whole families eating meat as a main part of their meal and thus the tradition of eating meat began. The turkey became the staple of Thanksgiving dinner. New Year’s has always been associated with pork and sauerkraut. Ham is the traditional meal of Easter. In the summer, you can’t wait to smell the barbeque in the air. As you think about all of the meat that we consume, it’s hard to believe that we were designed to live off of vegetables, fruits, nuts and berries.

Now just as man has become a meat eater over a period of time, you can covert a cow or a buffalo or deer for that matter any grass eating animal into a meat eater. After all, Man can do anything! He has the brains; he is the thinker and the super intelligent one!! This is also an oft repeated argument given in favour of meat eating.

And I am not talking through my hat. It is a well known practice among the animal farming industry where cattle are given feed which is laced with animal protein. The law in the European Union allowed upto 0.5% of the cattle feed to comprise of animal protein which has now been banned after the Mad Cow Disease was linked to this practice sometime in 2001.

The point that I am trying to make is that Man with his ingenuity can make a cow eat meat. If we mix the feed for cows with just 0.5% of animal proteins (as was or is still being done) and increase this percentage in the feed by just 0.5% per 1000 years (it can’t get more gradual than this), then in a 100 thousand years, we can make a cow consume up to 50% of the diet in the form of animal protein!!

And just as man eats his meat against the natural order, Cows too would be eating meat against their natural order.

And some historian will then after a quarter million years from now state: ‘All available archeological evidence indicates that the NATURAL COW diet is Omnivorous and would include meat.”

Man is GOD.

Amen.

PS: Check out some of these references:

Cattle Feed is Often a Sum of Animal Parts

Mad Cow Disease Hits America

The EU animal feed sector: protein ingredient use and implications of the ban on use of meat and bonemeal

It’s Still a Cow Eat Cow World

Protein Sources for the Animal feed Industry

Mad Cow Disease: It’s Mad to Eat Meat

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Niranjan

July 17th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

In USA farmers add meat in fodder similar to India farmer add cotton seeds in fodder esp. for buffalo. However I do not support meat as a food.

Jyoti

July 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm

At first glance the idea seems far fetched, but on second thoughts I think it is quite possible. Human ingenuity has no bounds and if history is the correct indicator, man can make cows eat meat. What a waste of the god like intelligence and ability that He has bestowed on His finest creation!!

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July 24th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Good article… and i must also thank Darwin in this regard… for his Evolution Theory…( man is not exception to it).

Recently saw in some local TV that there is a cow in a village in Andhra Pradesh that only eat meat… the complete video was also shown… it was shocking…

Though i am not a supporter of meat eaters… I still feel meat has became integral part of the meal… and helping lakhs/crores of people making their living by selling/involved in the process some way or other..

Sanjeev

July 24th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

First of all – Thanks to you all Niranjan, Jyoti & Naresh – for your comments.
And Naresh it would seem that the time I asked for – 100 thousand years – is too long! This cow must have been fed meat for a really long time. And yes, meat has become an integral part of human diet for almost 97% of the world population and it is also a source of livelihhod for millions. So does that mean we keep promoting meat eating? I don’t think so.
The title of my next post is going to be: If We stopped Eating Meat, We Can Feed The Univesre!!
Watch out for it.

July 24th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Sanjeev thank you commenting back.. its expected…

Its all part of the game… if you don’t have one profession you got to live so will search for alternative.( teaching/doing type writing works switched over to computer institutes others went back to data entry works).

I am veggi by birth.. and continue to be and proud enough to say did not tasted/attempted to taste meat…( though traces of egg might entered by biscuits/Ice cream)…

sure will wait for the article… that would be a eye opener for many…

meateater

August 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pm

if 0.5% of animal protein in animal fodder can cause the ‘mad cow’ disease!! What do you think will happen when you put cows on a “beef only” diet??? Not only is your idea far-fetched… its downright absurd!!

None of us will be around a 100 years from now… so lets see if you can accomplish this in the next 10!! That will be human ingenuity at work!!

August 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Mr.Meateater… its not question of cow eating meat which sanjeev trying to explain… its the switchover to vegitarianism thats talked about.. using an example of cow..

As i already commented… i am not against meat eaters… but for sure educate them about the positives of switchover to vegetarian…

August 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm

My dear “meateater”

1. It is great that you are displaying the badge so proudly. And I hope it is not because you want cock a snook at us poor vegetarians!!
2. 0.5% of animal protein has led to mad cow disease – I am not saying so. The scientific community and other more learned people than I have said so. That was also the reason why I had included the references at the end of the article – just so that the doubting meateater(s) could be convinced. I gues you did not read them. Please do.
3. Now you say that 0.5% of animal protein in animal fodder can’t be responsible for Mad cow disease, and you find the idea far fetched and downright absurd. Why? You mean 0.5% of animal protein can’t do that? Any idea what is the amount that a man need to take of Cyanide to kick the bucket? Less than 150 mg! And if I take that a man consumes 2000 calories a day that corresponds to 500 gm. of carbs and 150 mg of cyanide is only 0.03% of that. Is that absurd?
4. Finally dear “meateater”, you are right that none of us will be around a 100 years from now. But I reckon that the human race will be around for another 100 years? Or maybe a few 100 thousand years. Unless you and I become so selfish that we don’t give a damn to what happens to the human race and to life as we know it and to the earth and blah blah blah and ensure that we do not leave anything for our future generations.
5. And absolutely the final point, I am not so ingenuous as to make cows meat eaters in 10 years. Even nature cannot do that. Evolution takes much longer than a decade. And in any case you seem to have missed the whole point of the article – we are not natural omnivores.

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