I was born and raised on the standard American diet. My Mom cooked us conventional meat loaf dinners, ham for holidays, and steak for Friday’s. It wasn’t until I was like 24-25 that I started to think about what the ingredients in my food could be doing to my body and the environment around me.
I started eating vegan to clean my guts out. Once I learned how my intestines holds pounds of shit from years ago that could potentially be leaking all sorts of toxins in my blood stream inhibiting my immune system from functioning properly, I wanted to cleanse ASAP. My cousin dying of cancer at like 21 had a lot to do with it too. No doctor will tell you diet has something to do with cancer, but it does.
I switched up my diet, eating only fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans. I cut bread out too to see how I’d feel. I became vegan to benefit my health. I was getting sustained energy through the day and pooping 2-3 times a day which is healthy.
I ate like that for 6-7 years until I got interested in living sustainably off the land. I came across some interesting information from a guy named Daniel Vitalis who owns the company Surthrival. He held a lecture that’s now on YouTube about the mass domestication of human beings and talked about him being a recovering vegan too.
Now if you’re like me I’m sure every once in a while you look around in your house and open your pantry and question the very reality you’re living in. No? Well I notice the cage, the nutritionally poor produce, the hamster wheel I’m on to live in the cage I rent from my lord, my land-lord.
My ancestral DNA cramps my stomach when I realize I’m addicted to convenience, binge watching Netflix shows, trying to filter chlorinated water to boil my plastic packaged noodles.
I was feeling fine eating how I was eating, but I felt like I really relied on the supermarket for everything once the pandemic hit. My kale that was driven thousands of miles from the ‘organic’ farm to the Whole Foods shelf is stripped of it’s wild form. It’s original nutrient dense state just grown in some poor excuse for soil.
The manufactured world is stripping the wild out of the human and the food supply. The vegan diet needs supplements manufactured and sold in capsules or delivered in shots. The so called healthiest diet is absent of essential vitamins and minerals, and relies on industrialization to be sustained. If for some reason your lost in the wild, God forbid a plane crash or some lethal wrong turn on your hiking trip, the vegan diet will not keep you alive.
You ever watch that show Alone on the History channel? It’s amazing, people are challenged to survived in the wilderness with only 10 items for as long as they can. My point is, they can’t just eat berries forever or their bodies will eat their muscle for fat, that’s not good. You need fish or meat to survive.
So after I got Covid in Feb 2020, I’ve been vegan for 6 years, I craved eggs. I was like this diet didn’t protect me, forget it, I’m eating eggs. That got me interested in other grass-fed meats, and wild-caught fish.
I’m still as conscious of the quality of the food I eat. Choosing organic and local over conventional and non-local. I’m just a little more realistic with what a wild human would be eating in the wild and base my diet around that.
I understand people challenging the human body to a vegan diet to see if they can create the first multi-generational vegan people. Since there’s no evidence of any culture in human history being 100% vegan it’s a hell of a challenge and I hope the best for you. I’ll just eat how I eat and you continue to eat how you eat. I just wanted to share this for people interested in diet.
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