Is Any Vegetable Truly Innocent? By David Archibald.
Cucumbers come close. But first the background to this line of inquiry. The globalist psychopaths who spawned global warming, covid and the other preoccupations of ‘dark triad’ personality types have plenty of time on their hands to come up with new ways to torture the rest of us. The mischievous imps created this image of the actor Kevin Bacon in a bean suit:
The beans on display are navy, pinto, black and black-eyed peas. It is a campaign by a mob called Humane World for Animals … to encourage people to eat beans instead of meat once a week. It is a revival of the sumptuary laws of the Middle Ages, under which what you could eat depended upon your social status, reinforcing the social hierarchy.
It is a bad idea promoted by bad people, but just how bad could eating vegetables be? Let’s stick to the poisons and anti-nutrients in common vegetables:
- Oxalate is used by vegetables to control intracellular calcium levels. The needle-like crystals of oxalate also defend against being eaten by insects and animals.
- Phytates bind to iron, zinc, magnesium and calcium and reduce the body’s absorption of them from the gut. They are a defense against being eaten.
- Lectins act as defense proteins by binding to foreign carbohydrate structures. They can disrupt digestion in insects and herbivores. …
The reason why vegetarians have to spend a lot of time chewing is that they need to eat a lot of beans to get enough protein in absence of meat, while the phytates in all those beans stop the absorption of iron, zinc and magnesium. It is a similar story in wheat and rice. I remember 50 years ago when it was popular to eat brown rice instead of white rice because of the extra nutrients in the bran. It turns out that the ancients milled rice and wheat to remove the bran for a reason. They didn’t know why but they knew through empirical evidence that they should.
Giving up meat for beans is a bad idea, but don’t give up on plants altogether. Human cells have receptors for a wide range of plant molecules. … Prostate cancer incidence in Vietnam is one fortieth the US rate. The difference is not genetic; it is dietary. …
The Thais have Thai salad. The Vietnamese have pho, in which the chilli provides capsaicin, the bean sprouts provide coumarins and the mint provides the molecule carvone. A lot of cancers are caused not by what we eat, but by what we don’t eat.