RE: is this right
I watched it beginning to end, from the perspective of a historian, archeologist, psychologist and educator.
She has a book to sell and this video is an advertisement.
This woman is as much a fanatic now as she was when a vegan. Everything is all or nothing with her.
In the first 15 minutes she is pretty rational but in the last 15 minutes she goes (what we call over here) CALIFORNIA NUTS!
As you watch be aware of the contradictions she presents, one statement of fact and two minutes latter a statement that contradicts it. Such as, "corporations do not want to own the land" and latter "corporations want to drive the farmers off the land".
And observe the absolutes that do not exist; "Everyone was healthy as a hunter gatherer and in hunter gatherer societies."
In hunter gatherer societies anyone that is not healthy dies before they reach 10 years of age and life expectancy is 35!
Take diabetes for example. Anyone developing childhood diabetes would die as a child. Most people would not live long enough to develop type 2 diabetes and when they did they would die, so there are no identified diabetics in those societies. Diabetes is a genetic disorder carried by a recessive gene, You can carry the gene without having the disease, that is how it has endured the ages. It is irritated by diet, not caused by diet.
It is more noticeable and present now due to our obesity crisis that is caused by the dominance of complex carbs in our diets and sedentary lifestyle. It is the over-eating of those complex carbs that does the trick, not their existence!
She is still working in the Vegan mind frame, just trying to justify her craving for meat. This type of person operates exclusively from a platform of guilt and must justify every action with a social benefit, even eating. In another age or society she would have been a nun, entered a convent and devoted her life to the poor and suffering.
And true to her modern extremist heritage, she is not living in a brush hut in the woods. She is sitting in a fossil fuel powered house, driving a fossil fuel powered car and wearing manufactured clothing.
While her premise is correct, We should eat a varied/balanced diet including meats, animal fats, dairy and vegetables, that does not mean we should stop farming or attempt to feed the world without large scale farming and fertilizers. At the present population density of the western world we can not afford it and the land can not sustain it.
And there are a lot of healthy people out there, eating well balanced non-organic, affordable diets.
It is in the last 5 minutes that her true agenda emerges.
Feminist control
redistribution of planetary wealth
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Every person should view freedom of speech as an essential right.
Without it you can not tell who the idiots are.
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