Published on 12, July, 2020
I've found through experience eating meat makes me feel depressed or angry or sometimes both. Fish and seafood are a bit of an exception, they don't have such a negative impact on me.
With a vegan diet you need to supplement with Vitamin B12 and Omega 3 and that's where I went wrong in the past when I tried it. I became weak and malnourished as many vegans do who don't supplement.
Roswell said:I've found through experience eating meat makes me feel depressed or angry or sometimes both.
The amount of stuff pumped into meat in the UK is pretty aweful, certainly for supermarket food.
If you are interested in seeing if it is down to the additives then try some of the farm shops and ask what the meat has been treated with in its life - most will have had antibiotics and vaccines along the way to keep it healthy, but it is still a lot better than the supermarket prep (I worked in Sainsburys back in the 80s and back then they were pumping saline into a lot of the meats to increase the weight and make it look juicy, so god knows what they add now.
Seafood is not a lot better as there are so many micoplastics and heavy metals in the food chain now that most are not really that good for you.
Unless you grow your own fruit and veg you need to be thorough with the cleaning due to pesticides and there will always be some already absorbed by the plant so it really helps to know the chain from field to shop for this stuff. GM food is also becoming an issue as I see so many huge manufacturers of soy and corn here in Brazil are using Monsanto GM seeds because of the increased yields and pest resiliance.
I stopped worrying about all the risks as it is too anxiety inducing and focus on what tastes best.
I switched to only organic meat for a few months and even only ate grass fed beef and lamb for a while which technically by some standards are the healthiest meats you can eat due to the Omega 3 ratio and how natural the animals' diets are. However, there are other issues with meat I think like the protein in them is harder for the body to digest than plant protein. People can become diabetic or get heart problems from eating too much meat, especially red meat, even if what they eat is overally very healthy.