The ethics of bone broth does matter, even in a PETA world; mainly because over 3 billion human beings cannot just give up eating meat overnight…FOR ANY REASON. As for some, their day-to-day survival depends on it!
All the ‘sane’ arguments in favor of not-eating animal
by-products for religious or ethical reasons, I am in full agreement with, even
though I am a meat eater myself. Ethics and our Environment seem logical enough
to me. ‘Protect and preserve life about all else’ has been my personal motto for
most of my adult life. Despite being an ethical ‘meat eater’. It certainly ain’t
going to happen this PETA century!
It is sheer fallacy and farce to expect 3 billion people to
give up eating meat, as tasty, and delicious as it is; especially, almost overnight.
It will take decades, if not centuries, for this kind of change to actually
take place around the globe.
In the meantime, the sad and grim reality is that billions
of chickens and pigs are slaughtered each year around the world, to feed the
insatiable cravings of far too many meat-loving human beings like myself.
I love meat; I grew up on it; to me, it is not just meat, it
is also a tasty treat and an edible form of protein. I can probably admit to
maybe, just perhaps, also being addicted to this thing we call ‘meat’, and in any
form. Yet, I am a herbivore; and NOT, mainly a carnivore. I can go without meat
if I want to; but, not for too long. 😊
Biologically speaking though, and down through the ages,
animal by-products have been directly responsible for our evolution, the size
of our brains, our genetics, even our current immune system. These are
indisputable facts of science. Our DNA does not lie! Ethical or not!
We have evolved from what we have eaten and still consume
today.
Which means when it comes to bone broth vs. vegetable broth,
the meat-eaters of the world can get a bigger bang, biologically speaking, from
the carcasses of animals, rather than with just herbs and vegetables in the
broth.
Firstly, people that are meat eaters respond better and with
greater health results initially, by consuming bone broth rather than vegetable
broth for whatever ails them. Specifically, in terms of soothing relief from
the discomforts of inflammatory response due to diet or disease. Bone broth
works faster and is much more effective than vegetable broth to immediately and
dramatically reduce the inflammation levels in the body, or brain.
The above statement of personal fact was gleaned from over a
decade of watching people consuming it, and their reactions to it and from it!
Biologically speaking, they felt less pain, less inflammation, and less
discomfort from bone broth than they did from consuming vegetable broth alone.
The above fact, is not just supposition, as bone broth has
been consumed for over 20,000 years! How much anecdotal evidence will it take, to
make people trust in the regular consumption of this powerful proteinaceous
elixir?
Over these same tens of thousands of years, I am pretty sure
hundreds of millions of human beings have been sustained and fortified, in one
form of bone broth or another.
Are we really going to wait for science to prove the value
of bone broth without a shadow of a doubt? Or, isn’t 20,000 years of our recent
evolution proof enough, that bone broth is the most powerful therapeutic food
substance on the planet?
And it seems to work universally, regardless of your ethics
or dogma.
Welcome to the ethics of bone broth in a PETA world.
