Tried taking me to task, and this is what he looks like...

About a week back, Richard over at Free the Animal posted a response to a stupid video. I also posted a response about it. You would not believe the amount of comments those posts generated.

A commentator by the name Athonwy tried to take me to task:

Athonwy // Mar 3, 2011 at 12:56
Jason, you still haven’t made any convincing logical argument as to why you, or your dog, are not fair game for the plate. Actually, you made an argument exactly in favour of eating whatever we want, since something has to die, right? Where do you draw the line, and why do you draw it where you do? Why, in your world view, is eating an animal OK, but eating your dog or a human is not? You are not making a consistent argument.
Let’s put this question out to all the readers: Who has been more logical and consistent in their arguments? Me, or Jason? Please speak up, I welcome any criticisms or rebukes.

Good god, I wouldn’t want to be thought of as inconsistent… or illogical.

Why in my world eating animals be okay, and even my dog (in some cases)?

I tell you what – I would eat my dog if it meant my life, or my family’s life from starvation. It’s been nice knowing you pup!

That aside, it got me to thinking. How best to show that eating animals is a valid, logical, sustainable process?

Indeed, let’s turn things around here,  and go anti-vegan:

A Case Against Veganism

Fucking rights!

What is more innocent than the plants that you kill? Why do they deserve to die feeding you when they are meant to be for the animals you are supposed to be eating?

In fact, because of their abundance of soy or wheat products in their diets, vegans have inadvertently caused a mono agricultural empire, and the animals have to suffer eating the byproducts of your selfish diet.

Animals were not meant to eat soy or wheat byproducts, but the farmers have no choice but to feed these creatures that junk because of the demand for fucking tofu!

Plus, thanks to all the pesticides dumped around the area to keep those bananas/fruits alive, all the fossil fuels to transport them all over the world in their various stages of ripeness so we can consume them any time of the year (out of season), we have holes in the ozone layer, and a polluted  for their efforts. Feed the world indeed!

No, if vegans weren’t so fucking clueless and selfish, they would eat animals.

The Way Nature intended things:

The animals, (ruminants mostly – and for your vegan-addled minds that means they eat fucking GRASS and chew cud,) fulfill a purpose:

• They give us milk and we make many foods from their products.
• Their manure fertilizes our crops (mainly vegetables, some grains.)
• Their meat feeds a lot of people (a fuck of a LOT more than just 18 bags of grains.)
• Their leather can go to make many different items of daily use
• Their bones provide us with sustenance (bone broth) and with fertilizer as well. (Bone meal.)

In return, we eat far less, (because we are sated with a little bit of meat as opposed to the amounts of plants and animals we need to eat.) We don’t have to waste so many resources getting our sustenance.

I would finally ask the question, what in YOUR mind makes it alright to eat vegetation meant for the animals you eat?

Seriously, I thought about 2 seconds before I had to post this up and hack this guy to verbal pieces. This ain’t gonna be pretty, and I sure as fuck ain’t gonna be nice. (Viewer’s discretion advised…)

First, the set up:

Watch this beauty of a gem for a few minutes, (if you can tolerate it,) then read on.

Some of you may wonder why I would bother sending traffic his way. Well, the answer is simple.

I wanted to show you how fucked up some people’s thinking can be.

The best part about Vegan dickheads like that guy is how they go on about how their diet is the best, blah blah. The best part is when thatfucker goes off on whether something is “Paleo” or not. You know, like they didn’t have fucking olive oil back in the day.

When will a vegan actually pick up a book and understand what he is critiquing? Sure, they didn’t have olive oil back in the day. They sure as fuck didn’t have pasta, rice, garbanzo beans, hummus, tofu, soy sauce, pressed fucking canola oil either. What’s the point there?

Then the fucker goes on about how fat everyone is that goes on low carb. Even better are the people he shows a “good” examples of Vegan athletes.

Can you say, “emaciated?”

Seriously, Dude, get a fucking grip!

So, if I understand correctly:

The path to health is to eat a shit tonne of carbs, no animals, fruits, run all fucking day long, so I can look like I need another meal?

Eat every 3 hours, just to keep my metabolism going?

Faint because I need more vitamins that I just can’t get with a vegan diet?

Do I really want to look like those skinny ass fuckers?

Hell no. I would prefer to stay fat, thanks.

Give me my meat, give me my bone broth. Give me my vegetables, and my fucking food back.

Vegans think they are out to save the world by eating vegan. I say that eating animals makes me higher up on the food chain.

If you choose vegan, that’s up to you – at least I can go almost all day without food by eating a couple pieces of steak with butter, mushrooms, and a bit of vegetables. I can bolus for that, and be pretty much okay after that.

Can’t say that for you poor fuckers starving yourselves on plant based foods alone.

What of all the diabetics out there? I noticed that there was one very telling low-carb doctor missing on the vlog. That would be Dr. Bernstein. I am sure that that Aussie could take him to task, right?

Maybe once he puts down his ever-loving banana scramble.

Another thing

Over at the YouTube channel this Banana lovin freak has going on, he has some videos that overlay a cooking “demo” with an animal being slaughtered, and also labeled as low-carb/paleo/primal.

Well, I have something for that:

Think on this, Mr-High-and-Fucking-Mighty – When you kill a cow, it is fucking dead. Then you bleed it, hang it, and then it is used. But, it is still fucking dead.

Take that carrot that you bought at the store. (That was grown in manure, oh – and probably bone meal as fertilizer too, shit head!) You know, you put it into your crisper in the fridge – and you wait to use it.

Then you peel it.

Well think on this shit-head:

IT’S STILL ALIVE. IN FACT, IT’S DYING A SLOW FUCKING DEATH.

Think I am wrong? Well, instead of being dead, it is actually still vibrant. It still breathes. It still feels. (And don’t tell me plants don’t feel anything asshole – because plants have been documented as having feelings, and a conscience as well.)

Think on that when you get on your soapbox to protest how killing animals is inhumane. At least we KILL them, and don’t SLOWLY kill them.

What makes killing plants any different than killing animals? In the end, you gotta kill SOMETHING to eat!

>/Rant over.

Oops!

I had a post all raring to go last night, but then I did something stupid.

I thought I was taking my long-acting insulin, but I had replaced it with fast-acting instead.

For those of you wondering on that, a long-acting insulin (AKA Basal) lasts over a long period, like 20-24 hours and provides a background for your insulin needs.

A short-acting insulin (AKA Bolus) lasts over a 4 hour period, but acts rapidly, delta over 2 hours, then crashing.

Now, I usually take maybe 1 or 2 units to cover a meal I know will be a bit carb heavy. (Low carb by most people’s standards…) I took 18 units by mistake – 9 times the amount I normally take.

The danger in that is insulin removes blood glucose from the blood stream. That’s it’s job. If you go too low, your brain won’t get enough glucose to function, and that is BAD NEWS.

To further put it into perspective, that 1 or 2 units I normally take sometimes will put me low. Imagine what 18 units would do.

So, a ride to the hospital, 14 glucose tabs and a Sprite later, I was sitting in the hospital thinking about what had happened.

A comment I received …

Well, yesterday I received a comment from Nigel on a rant post I wrote a while back. I took a look at his blog earlier, and he has a lot of great information over there. (Why is he in with that CS woman, I have no idea.) I enjoyed looking through a lot of his posts, and learned a great deal.

What did I learn from being stupid though?

Well, I took a hefty dose of sugar to cover my insulin spike. In all, at least 150 grams of fast-acting glucose. (A GI of 100 – meaning it goes to work right away.) I got to thinking in the hospital bed, “I should be gaining weight… all this insulin, a tonne of sugar…)

It was time to test a theory/hypothesis out… Ahh… fuck that. I was more worried about what might happen to me.

This morning when I weighed myself, I had lost 2 lbs.

Huh?

I see a lot of bad science, and just stupidity on blogs when the issue comes up with insulin. I live and deal with insulin every fucking day – and if I fuck up, it means a trip to the hospital. People don’t have a clue as to what insulin really does, its effect in abnormal amounts – too little, and too much.

If I don’t take insulin, and continue to eat like I used to, I’ll lose weight. That I proved last year. I will eventually end up in the hospital, and might fall into a coma.

If I take too much, well – I just might not wake up.

Does insulin make a person fatter? Sure. I gained 30 pounds in 2 months when I started taking my insulin regiments. Was it the insulin alone?

There is more than just insulin involved in our weight loss journey while low carbing. Surprise! The whole endocrine system is way more complex than just 1 hormone.

Sure, insulin plays a major role, but I think maybe it is just about signalling the other hormones to work in tandem. It is one complex, nasty mess that once it gets deregulated, can become a shit mix – like Play Doh my Son mashed altogether into a ball.

Not impossible to get back to normal, but pretty fucking hard. The idea is to avoid mashing that shit-mix together.

I learned that simply implicating 1 hormone is too simplistic. What I have not changed is the approach. Low carb seems to be working, but science can’t really tell me why.

Rats Ass For Science

Some people might thing I am a GT fan-boy. Well, I am not a fan boy of anyone, and I take most things I read/hear with a super-heavy dose of skepticism. I research, read, and finally make my decision. Keep in mind, science is not the only place I go to.

Science has its place, sure. It is not the end of the story though. There are plenty of things Poindexter can’t explain – like how a chick is attracted to a douche bag, mind over matter, and why someone might gag over a fart while someone else thinks it smells like roses.

I believe in Gestalt – that is, a larger picture than just one piece of the puzzle. Functional medicine, if you will. There is more to Diabetes, weight loss than just the pancreas (as Nigel pointed out to me, thanks man!) It is a complex, difficult system to navigate. It’s not impossible.

I know, pretty bold, huh?

Why is being labeled “Borderline Diabetic” or “Pre-Diabetic” worse than being diagnosed with Cancer?

Hear me out here; I will explain.

I was 14, lethargic, urinating a lot, and eating like a maniac. Keep in mind that if I weighed a buck 20, I would be lucky. One quick trip to the doctor gave my mother some hope; I was at the “borderline” of diabetes.

Great news! I just had to “watch my diet” and all would be good!

No other information, no diet, no books, nothing else. Just an admonition to “watch my diet.”

What if I had cancer instead?

I remember when my mother was diagnosed with cancer – life pretty much turned upside down. She was forced to quit her nursing program at the last semester, I was sent to live with my grandfather, and Mom went through intense Chemotherapy.

My sister (a ripe age of between 6 and 7 years old) had a front row seat to the weakness that my mother endured through her treatment.  My mother had a major organ removed at the ripe old age of 25, and recovered from big old C.

Why is that better than being “Pre-Diabetic” or “Borderline”?

I am not going to say that cancer sufferers are lucky – far from it. The pain they have to endure is beyond my imagination to comprehend. I am not even going to say that they should be grateful for their diagnosis.

Here’s why I think a Cancer Diagnosis is better than a “Borderline Diabetes”:

1. They have a proper diagnosis. There is no wishy-washy bullshit. There it is, the cancer – now what are you going to do about it?
2. Cancer is Real. There is no fucking with it. It is there, and there is no “borderline” or “pre-cancer”. Now, you need to deal with it.
3. The doctor forms a plan of action. Cut it out, Chemo the shit out of it, leave it in there. All are plans of action.
4. With diagnosis, there is hope. Real fucking hope, not a false one. Hopefully it will work out, after you take steps to address the problem.
5. You understand the risks. Not so with a bullshit diagnosis like “pre-diabetes” where you are sent on your way after your “diagnosis” without a fucking clue as to what can happen to you.
6. What you don’t know will kill you. People don’t just ignore cancer and hope it will “all work out.” If you did that, you would fucking die. So why do we bury our heads in the sand when it comes to diabetes?

I am pretty fucking pissed that the doctors had their heads up their asses and gave me the bullshit diagnosis 20 years ago. Had they been on the ball, I could have saved years of damage to my body, and possibly years of my later life.

A bullshit diagnosis, and no information, no plan of attack, I was set up for a disease (and finally a proper diagnosis 19 years later.)

Thinking back, I can see a progression to today.

The endless pasta meals, the gallons of coke chugged daily, the sugar, pastries, cigarettes. I can see how, inch by inch, my body fought the shit that I was doing to it, until it just gave up.

Now, a lot of people might blame me, and you know what? I take all the blame. Just remember what I had to work with though – NO FUCKING INFORMATION.

I quit smoking after getting the information on what it could really do to you. I mean, really. I quit cold turkey, almost 3 years ago. Once I had the information I needed, it was easy.

As for the sugar/carb addiction, it was easy to break free of that once I knew what that shit did to me. Had I that information 20 years ago, my life would be drastically different.

What you can do today after reading this:

If you are labeled “Borderline” or “Pre-Diabetic”, you need to act. Treat it like you are a diabetic. Your first move is to buy the book, “The Diabetes Solution” by Richard Bernstein. (Link goes to my Amazon Store.)

I know you don’t want to hear that you are diabetic. One question is though, do you really want to wreak havoc on your body, and die of complications?

My grandmother got diagnosed with the “borderline” Diabetes, and she took it seriously, and she actually reversed the damage. She 80 years old, and an inspiration.

Get fucking real, and treat this shit seriously, like Cancer seriously.

STOP THE INSANITY!

I just had to post here a comment I left on post from an “anonymous” blogger, Carb Sane. (*not her real name)

For those of you wondering what this is all about, a while back, this blogger attacked the works of Gary Taubes. Mainly, about how his research was wrong, and how he was all about the money.

Jimmy Moore had her on his show, “Livin La Vida Low Carb” to tell what her beef was all about.

Gary responded to her claims on the Jimmy Moore show, here, and here.

Okay, understand, I could care less what two people think. They can fight each other, they can argue. See, that is the natural way of things.

Thing is, when someone gets pawned, and continues nitpicking about stupid shit, it really burns my ass.

I normally would not do something like this, but I just had to comment. Someone had to tell this chick that she was WAY off. Seriously, listening to someone on a podcast with a constant nervous laughter doesn’t really lend well to credibility. I mean, fuck, give it up already? You had a chance to make your point, and you blew it.

Gary Taubes responded, and despite being on the losing end, this chick – yep, beat on, she still does.

Sorry, had to rant, and here is what I left on her blog post:

Honestly, this is kind of like a dead horse here. GT pawned you, plain and simple. I listened to your side, and I heard a lot of rambling. I listened to Gary’s side, and I heard some evidence. I heard the explanation. All I heard from you was how pissed Gary made you. You cited a vague reference that Gary may have gotten wrong. You then are counseling to throw the baby out with the bath water. How does this make sense?

As for stalking? Who cares? Who cares who is right, wrong, who emailed who, what you were wearing, doing, watching on TV while this happened. Seriously, boring.

Find something else to blog about, and perhaps get a little more cred than just on the back of someone who actually did the leg-work.

If you like, I could poke about a billion holes into your misguided ramblings about diabetes, and insulin resistance. Or better yet your pound of cookies theory. An idiot can see that eating a pound of cookies does more than just adding the “calorie value” to the person. Just ask a diabetic who has a problem with blood sugar and control.

Also, in terms of insulin, I humbly suggest you go and do a bit more research as a baseline, instead of cherry picking different reports. Once you have that under your belt, with PROPER biochemistry, you won’t come off as quite a hack.

May I suggest the book, “Think like a Pancreas” to get the baseline you so clearly need before you spout off verbal garbage.

Now, I’ll be surprised if this actually gets into the comments sections, but, there it is. I am going to post it on my site for kicks, and see if my readers will get anything off it.

Well, now that feels better. Had to get that one off my chest. LOL

Screw Veganism! This is going into the pot, and it will NOURISH me. Try that with your fucking beans!

The Vegan Challenge – and Meatless Monday

Did you hear? We should be eating less meat! Thanks Oprah, but I’ll leave you to the record amounts of toilet paper for your diet.

Who the fuck is this chick?

Have you ever heard of Kathy Freston? Neither have I.

She’s the best selling author of Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World? Good for her. I mean, I guess we should be using “vegan meats” and “vegan cheeses” to help us get through the day, right? Curb that hunger, save the universe, and patch up my relationships?

Now tell me, why would I listen to an emaciated chick who looks like she is searching for something, ANYTHING to cure her hunger. This woman was a model at 16.

I mean, dude, anorexia? I’ll stick to wholesome, traditional foods, thanks!

Vegans are usually chicks who are mad at the world, and the guys stupid enough to follow them are just trying to bang them. I can’t prove it, it’s just a theory, a hypothesis, if you will!

Tell you what, how about a nice pot roast to fix that little problem?

Better yet, let Richard Nikoley tell her where her vegetables belong!

Low Carb Food for Thought

I just came across another post that is interesting: Hippocrates, the father of medicine, prescribed a low-carb diet to lose weight! Imagine that, 2500+ years ago, that man was ahead of his time. Or, are we simply backwards? Thanks to Tender Grassfed Meat for that gem!

My favorite Hippocratic quote:

Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.

Wow, can’t argue with that. How about this gem:

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot, if you can cure the patient with food.

Man, what a treasure!

What’s Rotting in YOUR Gut Right Now?

How about one of the most stupid myths I hear all the time, about meat “rotting in your gut?” Over at Gnolls.ORG, they debunk that myth. Great reading! Seems that humans only have 1 stomach, not 4. Go figure!

Paleo Testimonials

Over at Hunter Gatherer, there are 12 Paleo testimpoials that are truly interesting. My favorite benefit?

Paleo Benefit #17: Less farting.

That’s what my wife is talking about, right there! FTW!

Mmmm…. Hot Chocolate!

Cave Kitchen has an awesome idea for a Paleo version of hot chocolate for those of you like my wife who JUST can’t give it up. I am going to try the recipe out and report back you all on how it went. Wish me luck!

Over at Jan’s site, she whipped up an awesome barbecue sauce that is just money. I made some pulled pork the other day that is just crying for that sauce. Thanks Jan!

Homemade Food Trials

Macheesmo is brave man! He went and compared instant potatoes to his homemade mashed. See how it fared out. There are a lot of comments there. Guess which version I like?

On a Sweet Note:

Finally, I love the new post over at MDA talking about my favorite sweetener – Stevia. Check it out, suite!

I had a laugh my best friend a while back. “Confrontational? Controversial? You Jason? Never!” Sometimes I will read something, and I find myself mashing my fingers on the keyboard trying in vain to get my point across. (Which is difficult, especially when your writing resembles something like this before corrections: “What do iyoiu mean that afucker dfid that! I cant believe it that is so sdtupiud!”)

Today I read the following over at TuDiabetes:

So I tell the manager… “I have a concern about just 15 minutes spread out because I have Diabetes and I need to test, and have a proper lunch.”

Here is where things got really ugly.  The manager pulled me into his office, and proceeded to basically go off on me on his frustrations about “sick people.” “Sick people never say they have an illness during the interview… I know I’m not supposed to ask, but you’re supposed to say so… And now there I am stuck with people going to constant doctor appointments all the time, and taking time away from work, and I have no time for that… This is not what we’re here for. If you had done the same thing at John Deere you would’ve been fired… Why didn’t you tell me, I don’t discriminate against anyone… I’m a nice guy…” And basically really pushing me to give him an answer as to why I didn’t tell him I have Diabetes in the interview — and that he wouldn’t have discriminated… that he would’ve hired me anyway! “Now I have to worry about you passing out all the time in the store, and calling an ambulance…” etc… :/

Here is my thoughts on that in video form. (Careful NSFW or NSFC)

So, what do you think?

You may have heard this before, but it bears repeating; New Years resolutions are stupid, and goals, action plans are better.

Why?

Here’s what happens – Jan 1 rolls around; everyone throws confetti in the air with a joyous cry of “HAPPY NEW YEAR!” and perhaps a raucous rendition of “Auld Lyne Syne”. Resolutions are chucked around, lobbed like curveballs past the plate…

Then Jan 2 rolls around, and we can conveniently “break” or “Forget” our resolutions, and everything goes back to normal. The way it used to be. Nothing changes.

I don’t do it, and neither should you!

Sure, at this time of year, we all look back to how 2010 went for us. For me, it was a year full of surprises, health related problems, and a few revelations.

Resolutions should be a goal. Something you want to achieve. The problem is that people look at it like an instantaneous thing. For instance – “I’m gonna hit the gym and lose 20 lbs!”

Instead of absently bullshitting myself with all those things I am instantly going to change, I make goals instead. After, I make an action plan on how I’m going to achieve those goals.

Here’s how:

Grab a paper and pen, and join me by listing the three things that you want to change by the end of next year. Make sure you leave plenty of space in-between each item. (You see why later.) I’ll give you my examples:

My Goals 2011

I want to spend more quality time with my family, and build up the relationships improve that I am missing.
I want to improve my health and eating overall and manage my diabetes better

I want to grow my blog into a community where people can go for real food

I want to be a decent photographer with my New Rebel T2I

I want to grow my own food.

Okay, that was a quick list there.

People like to stop there, and that is where resolutions fall short. It’s a great start to list off what you are going to do. Now let’s develop an action plan.

No, I am not going all corporate on you there. What I mean is under each space you left for the item; list at least 2 things that you are going to do daily, weekly to further that goal.

My Goals + Action Plan 2011

I want to spend more quality time with my family, and build up the relationships improve that I am missing.

Weekly – Have 1 day where I play with my son. That means tobogganing, painting, whatever. Mommy can be included if need be, but the emphasis is time with the family.
Weekly – Phone or email someone that I have not talked to in a long while to catch up.

I want to improve my health and eating overall and manage my diabetes better

Weekly – Continue to run/walk at work, but also incorporate ½ hour exercise with weights/body weight 3 times a week. When I get stronger change to dumbbells. A great resource is Scoobysworkshop.com
Daily – Read and research about Paleo/Primal eating lifestyle. Stop “grazing” so much at work and just “taste” items instead.

I want to grow my blog into a community where people can go for real food

Daily: Write blog posts daily, at least 1 hour worth of writing per day.
Weekly: 2 recipes, 1 health related, 1 ask the chef, 1 Kitchen 101 post per week, and 1 review per week.

I want to be a decent photographer with my New Rebel T2I

Daily: Spend 1 hour taking pictures with my camera, and reading up about how to take better pictures. Practice! Practice!
Daily: Upload Pictures to daily 365 project. Look for critique from digitalphotographyschool.com

I want to grow my own food.

Daily: Read up on gardening from various blogs.
Weekly: Plan what I am going to grow this year.
Daily: (spring, summer, fall) actively garden.

There you have it. No resolutions, but I showed you how to make your goals for 2011, and then how to plan for an action plan on realizing those goals. By breaking your goals into smaller chunks that is easier to do (like daily or weekly) you are better able to reach those goals.

What are your goals for the New Year? What is your action plan? I would love to hear about it in the comments section!

Another opinion brought to you by WDC. NSFW and NSFC. View discretion is advised.
I recently read a short thought post by Richard over at Free The Animal that caused a huge amount of comments. Budget Paleo provoked quite a response because Richard took the stance that:

They are uniformly full of shit because they are motivated by some sort of apologetic inferiority complex, and it’s BULLSHIT! becausewe’re right.  Let’s just get it over with, already: a proper diet is a meat based diet. Shove your fucking organic vegetables up your ass! And while I’m at it: fuck “antioxidants.” Yea, I’ll play the rabbit now and then but my diet is animal based, and if you want real density of nutrition, so is yours.

That is what I love about Richard; he tells it like he sees it!

Don’t think that I totally agree though, here is my video response:

So, what do you all think?