Veganism and Vegetarianism are Forms of Disordered Eating

There is definitely a lot of nuance and bio-individuality when it comes to how much and how frequently a body needs to eat properly raised animal products. There can be quite a lot of variation from person to person and even throughout different seasons of the same person’s life. However, eating nose to tail.. eg eating muscle meats but also organ meats, bone marrow, cuts of meat that include bone, cartilage etc, will always be what humans evolved eating and therefore the most appropriate diet for a thriving, healthy human body, mind and spirit. I believe eating in a way that goes against our evolutionary biology because of an intellectual ideal can definitely be defined as an eating disorder. Here are the two most common arguments I get when I make this statement about veganism and vegetarianism being eating disorders: * “But I see people who are vegetarian and vegan who look healthy and have healthy babies!”* “I just don’t want to contribute to the suffering of animals or put their suffering into my body.”I think when we see someone who is vegan/vegetarian “thriving” there are two pieces going on here. 1) They are not actually healthy at all. It’s just you don’t see them often enough or aren’t close enough to them to see or hear about their health issues. Just because someone looks healthy definitely doesn’t mean they are. We, as a society, are unhealthy. So many people believe that it’s just the normal aging process to experience things like thyroid issues, mental health decline, autoimmunity, have your hair falling out, sleep poorly, feeling exhausted, premature aging of skin or having hair thin out and stop growing. These things may be common but they are not normal. Being thin and looking healthy definitely does not make you healthy. It’s also very rare these days that I see fully healthy babies or children.If a child has food sensitivities, dental issues, ADHD/ADD, sensory problems, doesn’t sleep well, is constantly getting sick, they are not what I would define as a healthy child no matter what that child may look like. And yes, I would bet on vegans and vegetarians health issues exacerbating greatly the older they get. The depletion will become more and more obvious. 2) If vegan and vegetarian people really do seem to be thriving I would say that these people may have a generational surplus. Meaning their grandmothers and great-grandmothers were exceptionally well fed from ancestral foods and they are benefiting from that mitochondrial inheritance. If they continue eating a vegan/vegetarian diet they will not pass down their mitochondrial health to their children. The next generation will see more things like: airway issues, food sensitivities, more injuries, getting sick more often, hormonal imbalances, autism, mental illness etc. If there is anything I want to drive home it is: your health status is not only coming from your choices but the choices of your mother and her mother. Our matter is quite literally built from another woman’s body. Feeding yourself and being well nourished is a responsibility to the legacy you create through your body.There is also so much more that goes into healthy mitochondria and cellular metabolism than food. Light exposure, non native EMF exposure, connection to Earth’s electromagnetic fields, and just the frequency/emotional/mental state of the people and environments we hang out with and in can greatly effect our cellular health.It’s possible to say that if someone were really tapped in and tuned into good light hygiene, electromagnetic fields, surrounded themselves with healthy people and healthy environment and tended to their frequency and they somehow still wanted to be a vegetarian (this does not apply to veganism, as you cannot thrive without at least some animal products), and they put the significant work in to getting all the essential protein/nutrients they needed on a daily basis, they may be able to avoid depletion, but it would require so much more effort than simply eating properly raised animals. This second argument I receive, the “I don’t want to eat suffering,” argument is actually another reason why I say vegan/vegetarianism are eating disorders.To say eating animals is synonymous with the suffering of animals is immature and ignorant to the actual ways of Nature. It is a fantasy and denial of death. And to live in fantasy and denial of death will never lead to a fully integrated, mature, fulfilled life. I say vegetarianism/veganism are eating disorders because across the board I see people who eat this way are disembodied and in denial of death, which is part of life. So it’s also effecting them on a frequency level.Nature is not devoid of pain and suffering. Have you seen nature videos of lions hunting gazelles? Have you seen eagles grabbing fish out of the water? When we deny the existence of pain or death in our lives we are not doing ourselves any favors. We ultimately cause ourselves more suffering because we are not capable of meeting our inevitable pain with acceptance, but instead fight it and want it to go away. As an example, we have the situation where more and more people want to be vegan so we are growing more and more mono crops like soy. The sheet number of small rodents and insects that are killed because of the habitat destruction caused new fields creation and spraying pesticides on those fields actually creates more bloodshed from a “vegan” diet than just killing a cow raised on pasture would. The idea that you could not eat meat and therefore cull some of the suffering of animals is simply immature and ignorant. It’s a denial of the animal body and the greater whole that we are all a part of.The whole that requires birth and death. Factory farming and pumping animals full of hormones and keeping them in tiny cages, is definitely creating undue suffering. I do not condone nor support factory farming in any way, shape or form. I am constantly espousing the use of properly raised animal products and sharing about the lengths I go to procure and use products only from properly raised animals. I only eat and use products from animals that have good, happy and healthy lives. Eating unhealthy animals is not healthy and I will never claim that it is. The whole system has to be healthy. That is what it means to honor life and death. But a cow having a beautiful life on pasture and then killing it in a fast and humane way, thanking the animal and eating the entire animal, bones, organs and all, that is a beautifully reverent practice. And it is in accordance with Nature Herself. Death is required for life to continue living. Death and life are two sides of the same coin.This idea that “I don’t want that suffering in my body so I won’t eat meat” is disembodied and simply unrealistic. It is immature. A little girl’s fantasy.A slice of the rainbows-and-unicorns-denial-of-the-darkness-pie of new age “spirituality”.A version of the purity-based, masculinized, “transcendent” idea that the body itself and it’s animal needs are dirty and distasteful.It’s the product of a society that doesn’t raise, butcher, hunt, grow, process their own food and meat.It’s the product of a society that doesn’t value the earthy, dirty, bloody, messiness that is birth itself. It’s the product of a society that doesn’t value humanity, actually. It’s the s**t and piss and puss side of the human experience. My practice is to honor it all. The light and the dark. Because I am it all. And it is all happening through me. And to deny any of it would be to deny myself and my own humanity. And I believe this acceptance of two sides of Nature is what is required for a healthy, thriving body, mind and soul. I am currently holding connection calls for my flagship program FED | A 6 month journey into deep feminine nourishment. If this piece of writing calls you and that could mean makes you deeply uncomfortable but undeniably intrigued, send me a message. I am ready to serve the part of you that feels the call to this work.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit clarabelize.substack.com/subscribe