Not eating meat is bad for you, and a plethora of research confirms this. The human body needs it to function normally, encompassing muscles, joints, immunity, and mental health. There is no substitute, but food culture in the US was hijacked decades ago by captured bureaucrats and the oligarchs who profit from feeding the internal consumption engine.
The food tyrants have worked long hours to get us addicted to quick and easy, no matter how bad it might be for us. At the same time, their politicians manipulate policy to make meat and eggs and even chicken, and increasingly pork, too expensive for anyone but the ruling class. This cabal has also glorified the vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, which, if you know anyone in it, can seem as intolerant of other modus vivendi as the Gaystapo.
The investigation, ‘Rethinking Vegetarianism: Differences Between Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians in the Endorsement of Basic Human Values’ by Professor John Nezlek, of SWPS University in Warsaw, appeared in the journal PLOSOne in May, and you can read it in full here (shorter summaries also appear here and here).
The piece was based upon analysis of questionnaires used to gauge the attitudes of 3,800 adults in Nezlek’s native Poland and the US. Participants were asked to answer, on a scale of one to six, how much they approved of values like being successful in the eyes of others, or of becoming rich. They were also asked to identify whether they were vegetarians, vegans or carnivores. Analysis of subsequent replies appeared to demonstrate that, contrary to the stereotype of lovey-dovey hippies like lentil-loving Neil from The Young Ones, the average vegetarian in fact showed a greater desire to try and wield power over their fellow men than the average eater of meat. They were also deemed more likely to value social status, and less likely to value kindness (as opposed to showy displays of #BeKindness).
Meat-eaters were found by Nezlek’s estimation to be more concerned with caring for family and friends, not upsetting the feelings of others unnecessarily, and upholding social stability, safety and traditional norms of behaviour – in other words, being mentally and morally normal. Vegetarians, however, were deemed to be more manipulative and ambitious, seeking to gain higher status positions in society from which to impose their wider niche political viewpoints (which centred more upon promoting novelty, stimulus and innovation) upon others.
So, whilst on a surface level the elevation of environmental causes by the vegetarian-minded might appear to be all about saving the planet, in reality it may well be more motivated by a subliminal desire for control over others and making them act how vegetarians say they should be acting – by surreptitiously injecting them with tick-borne diseases to make them vomit every time they so much as pass by a deli counter, for example.
I should explain that last bit before proceeding. Apparently,
Professor Parker Crutchfield and Assistant Professor Blake Hereth, both of Western Michigan University, [have a] lunatic scheme to genetically modify a certain obscure species of tick to deliberately infect innocent Americans with an allergy to red meat and dairy-products…”
I am not aware of any similar cabal on the animal-eating side of the grocery store aisle to force veganistas to consume meat. I’m also comfortable suggesting that leaving “more meat for us” is a dandy idea that could keep prices from rising more than they already have. We may think it a bad health choice to eschew meat, and an inconvenience if you find yourself having to feed a vegan for whom you were not prepared, but that’s their problem, not yours.
As for the cited research, it is not exactly conclusive, but suggestive of a tendency we can observe in the real world for ourselves. I’ve known a few vegetarians, and I’m inclined to think that the motivating factor is less the diet than a corresponding political ideology. The moral superiority angle hints to me that they were predisposed or lured into the progressive project first. Most Proglodytes are intolerant of any other worldview, abrasive about your failure to agree or adopt it, and willng to silence opposing speech that dares to contradict or challenge it.
We see this in their false diversity, which is a room full of people who look different but who are all expected to think the same way.
Using force to create a culture of compliance is not just a given but a prerequisite of the political plantation on which they would trap us. Anyone who adopted its false gods would necessarily expect others to worship as they do and tithe accordingly to the state to finance the war machines that preserve those values.
And if vegans are predisposed to the sort of bossy psychology attributed to them in the research, the progressive project is the easiest place for them to land. They are made for each other.
Editor’s note: Sometimes things are set to publish before being spell checked, and I am so very sorry I did not come back to this before it went live. I think it’s better now.
