A common myth told by PETA and is ignorantly repeated today is the claim that humans are unable to digest meat and it therefore putrefies in the colon, causing disease. I believe I may have a special insight on this one based on my unique experiences. We have probably all read the science of human digestion and understand why this statement is erroneous. But I would like to cover this one as living proof, not only that humans digest meat, but we digest it better than any other whole food we eat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A common myth told\nby PETA and is ignorantly repeated today is the claim that humans are unable to\ndigest meat and it therefore putrefies in the colon, causing disease. I believe I may have a special insight on\nthis one based on my unique experiences. \nWe have probably all read the science of human digestion and understand\nwhy this statement is erroneous. But I\nwould like to cover this one as living proof, not only that humans digest meat,\nbut we digest it better than any other whole food we eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After I lost my intestines<\/a>, I was left with only about\nten inches of small bowel which was formed into a jejunostomy<\/a> stoma as seen in the image. What you see in that graphic is all of the\nsmall intestine I had left. So in\nessence, I was able to see what passed directly out of the human stomach. It really doesn\u2019t matter even if some doctor\nbacks this erroneous claim, because doctors never deal with ostomies. Emptying of the ostomy bag is a job that even\nnurses do not perform regularly, but is the job of a \u201cTech\u201d in a hospital. For those who don\u2019t know, the Tech is person\nwho goes room to room checking and recording blood pressure, temperature and\nblood sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aside from checking and recording vitals, the Tech must empty the\nostomy bags of intestinal patients. They\nreally don\u2019t check the contents, just the overall volume of output. The output must be matched with the infused\nfluids to prevent dehydration. Of\ncourse, the Techs are terrible at this job and often spill the contents on the\npatient. Stomach acid burns like hell\nwhen it sits on your skin for more than a minute or two (strongly suggesting\nthat it has the ability to break down protein). \nSo more often than not, family members take over the job of ostomy care\nand recording. In my case, my beloved\nwife took on the dirty chore. For those\nthat are curious; no, a jejunum or ileum output doesn\u2019t smell like feces (that\nis a colonostomy), because the jejunum and ileum are before the colon, which\nhouses the bacteria that create the offensive gasses. A jejunostomy or ileostomy output have the\nsmell of vomit, because in reality that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because I had such an extremely short bowel, my output was\nvery high<\/a> because no water absorption had taken place. I was fed and hydrated by infusion and could\nliterally live without eating or drinking at all. Because of my excessive output, we had to\nmake a rig that had a hose extending from the ostomy bag that drained into a\none gallon jug. Often the hose would get\nclogged and my wife or sister would have to use a coat hanger wire to unplug\nit. Now if this vegan pseudoscience is\nright, we would suspect that the hose was being plugged by pieces of meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Never once did we see any solid chunks of meat. I became so curious about this that I once\nswallowed the largest chunk of meat I could possibly get down without\nchoking. Because of the shortness of my\nbowel, it only took about twenty minutes for my stomach to empty into the\nostomy. Better than two hours later,\nthere were no signs of any meat chunks. \nWhat was always clogging the ostomy tube were pieces of vegetables that\nwere not fully chewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Entire pieces of olive, lettuce, broccoli florets, grains and\nseeds were found. Yet, large pieces of\nfat were never witnessed. As a matter\nof fact, all the fat from the meat was already emulsified by the bile into\nsolution within the duodenum. Over time,\nfat would coagulate on the side walls of the ostomy bag, but never were there\nany solid pieces observed. Certainly we\nare getting a lot more nutrition from our meat than from our vegetables \u2013\nunless you can chew your cud several times like a ruminant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No mammal on earth have enzymes that can break down the cellulose<\/a>\nfrom plant cells. Cellulose membranes\ncan only be ruptured through the mechanics of repetitive grinding and the\nfermentation of bacteria. Human molars\nare not flat enough to grind plants very effectively and we don\u2019t have the\nbacteria necessary for fermentation within our stomachs. Who here has never observed whole corn\nkernels or nuts in their poop? I\nraise cattle and even in spite of their large flat molars, the ability to chew\ntheir food multiple times, and a host of protozoa in their stomachs, I have\nseen whole corn kernels in their manure. \nSo, how much can a human really get out of whole grains with ridged <\/a>molars<\/a> and a nearly sterile stomach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Humans have bacterial colonies only within the large intestines,\nbut there is little nutrient absorption within the human colon. Long before meat reaches the colon it has\nbeen completely broken down and absorbed. \nAll of the enzymes for breaking down meat protein and fat \u2013 pepsin<\/a>,\ntrypsin<\/a>,\nchymotrypsin<\/a>,\nlipase<\/a>\nand bile<\/a>\nare all manufactured by our stomach, liver and pancreas. Most of these enzymes are secreted into the\nduodenum (the first section of small bowel directly after the stomach). In other words, we have no need for any\ningested bacteria or enzymes for meat digestion, but we need plenty of outside\nhelp for plant digestion. If this\ncocktail of gastric juices ever hits your skin, you will know damn well how\neffectively they begin to break down protein \u2013 trust me on that one! The fact that the human digestive system\nmaunufactures every enzyme needed to reduce animal flesh to solution would\nstrongly suggest that we have evolved as an omnivore with a much stronger lean towards\nmeat consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also have to consider that the doctors were infusing PPIs (Proton Pump inhibitors)<\/a> mixed in with my TPN in\norder to suppress my appetite. This is\nimportant, because I was completely reducing animal fat and protein to solution\nwith my stomach acid production severely crippled. Lowered acidity also reduces enzyme activity\nwithin the stomach. Imagine how much\nmore efficient my stomach is at digesting meat now that I am no longer\nreceiving PPIs. So I am not sure on what\nscience the vegans bases their claim that humans can\u2019t digest meat. As is typical with most vegan propaganda,\nit\u2019s based on no science at all and was something they literally \u201cpulled out of\ntheir ass\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why people continue to\nrepeat this nonsense without checking its validity is a mystery to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a condition that late-stage diabetics can suffer called,\n\u201cGastroparesis\u201d, where the nerves to their stomach become damaged. As a result, all of the food consumed (not\njust meat, but everything they eat), does not digest and begins to ferment and\nputrefy. A man who I met at Jackson\nMemorial Hospital, who was there to receive a pancreas and liver transplant,\nand was also a diabetic began to suffer this illness. As a result, he required that a stomach tube\nbe inserted to into his duodenum to infuse a predigested paste for the\nremainder of his life. Unfortunately,\nhis liver was perforated during the procedure and he ultimately died as a\nresult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps some vegan diabetic mistook this symptom of the advanced\nstages of their disease as proof that the human could not digest meat and that\nit would putrefy in their intestines, but somehow I doubt that. It would appear to be just more desperate\npseudoscience someone at PETA simply pulled out of their ass because they\nunderstand that those that want to believe in veganism will accept anything\nPETA says without further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s quite sad, because vegetarians and vegans can have some\nvalid points about human health (certainly a vegetarian diet is a healthier\noption than the standard american diet (SAD) of processed crap and junk food),\nbut when they toss out some completely falsifiable and totally fabricated\nnonsense, like the myth that humans cannot digest meat, no rational thinking person\ncan take them serious and they destroy any credibility they may have had for\nany of their arguments. PETA does more\nof a disservice to the vegetarian and vegan agenda, yet vegetarians continue to\nsupport them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why I like PETA. \nAs long as they\u2019re the voice for the vegetarian movement, it will never\nbe taken seriously or proliferate. \nSometimes I wonder if PETA is not actually funded by the meat industry\nto sabotage the vegan agenda through the exploitation of women in advertising<\/a>, funding of eco-terrorism and manufacturing of complete and\ntotal pseudoscience. No special interest\ngroup would ruin their own credibility in that manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (If you want to read more scientific facts about how the human\nalimentary tract digests meat,<\/p>\n\n\n\n J.Stanton has published a detailed breakdown in his post \u201cDoes Meat Rot In Your Colon\u201d. Sally<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD wrote an excellent description entitled\n\u201cThe Long Hollow Tube\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are several other erroneous claims that I can expose, based\nupon my medical experiences. I have\nthese subjects in these other rants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe\nEffect Of Sugar On Arteries\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe\nTruth About Soy\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, every time I hear a vegan\nproclaim that humans can\u2019t digest meat because our stomach acid is too weak,\nI\u2019ll wish I had some of my gastric juices to pour on them and see how long\ntheir epidermal protein can resist being digested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PETA propaganda will never affect\nme, because I have seen what actually empties from the human stomach. Here are some other posts I have written\nconcerning more falsifiable and ridiculous pseudoscience created by the likes\nof PETA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n