Could a human survive on a 100% meat diet (meat and other animal products)?

11/11/2018

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Society Story: Could a human survive on a 100% meat diet (meat and other animal products)?

Yes, most definitely.

In fact, not only can people survive on 100% meat, but they can also have a much lower risk of heart disease and cancer than the average person.

BUT. Put that 32 oz. steak down and hear me out for a bit. Surviving on a meat-exclusive diet involves much more than what you think you know about eating meat, and will probably require the advice of experts on the matter. But who could be an expert on surviving on meat only, you ask?

These guys:

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Meet the Inuit, a friendly native tribe of the Arctic, Canada, and Greenland, who survived on frozen wastelands for a thousand years. Their lands were barren, and could not bear fruit or vegetables—even less so than the lands of the Norwegians, who mitigated this problem by raising and killing Englishmen. Instead, the Inuit opted to pass the last millennia eating nothing but meat and fish—and not only did they survive, but they thrived; as mentioned previously, they indeed showed a lower chance of heart disease and cancer.

“But I thought eating meat was bad for you. How did this happen?” I hear you ask. Welp, their trick—which very few meat-chomping fellas actually do in the developed world—is that they eat their game WHOLE. Brains, offals, bone marrow, organs—you name it, down the hatches it goes. That way, ALL of the nutrients that kept the animal alive before its untimely demise now work on keeping the human alive, not just those that reside in the muscles and skin. Furthermore, counterintuitive as it sounds, they have to eat some of the organs, like the liver, raw, so that certain vital nutrients will not be altered by the heat.

Ultimately, it is important to understand that humans spread all over the world, from frozen wastelands to endless deserts, because they are an extremely adaptive species. The same way a human can survive exclusively on greens, as vegans so proudly rub in our faces to prove that animal flesh is the devil, we can also survive exclusively on said devil. HOWEVER, both extremes require a great variety of said food of choice, and careful planning to ensure a long and healthy life.

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27 Comments

Linda Spreng

Good to know. On the other hand, my mom ... all 94 1/2 years of her had a terrible diet. Cholesterol practically four digits, butter loving lady. She was farm raised, however, and worked harder than I have my whole life added up. Healthy as a horse the entire time, until a nasty hole in the yard threw her to the ground and broke her ankle. Not the same physically, of course, but her mind was sharper than a tack. Her humor was infectious the whole trip. ANYway she ate what she wanted when she wanted to. Apparently she won the jackpot of genes.

Fran Graybowski

Really, they raised and killed Englishmen? Or did you mean raided and killed? Where was the proof reader?

Dani Smith

I'm not too fired up about eating the entire animal. Eyes looking at me from my plate just kill my appetite.

dragondawg

I've lived above the Arctic Circle here in Canada and met some amazing Inuk, (e-nook), people and huntears. When the hunters kill a seal, everything from that animal is used. From the pelt to the blubber to the meat and internal organs. Even the tendons are preserved to be used as thread to make their clothes so that the hunter can be on the ice for hours and never feel cold. This applies also to any whale that may beach itself. And if 1 family has no hunters, because the male children are too young, the village will share a lot with each other, including taking the young male when he is of age, 13, to learn how to hunt to feed his family. It really is a village helping everyone in that village. I'm so glad my father was in the military. I saw several native cultures of Canada that I wouldn't have if he wasn't military.

Ellen Sheehan

This article is opinion mixed with some facts. Can they survive? Well, yes with a life span of 68. Compare to persons from Okinawa, for instance, who consumed very little meat/fish and live to average 87. (That is, until the introduction of American fast food and “convenience “ foods.)

Susan Lake-Harris

Nick Bretland, actually, all the fruit eaters of the mammalian variety can't produce their own vitamin C at the adrenal cortex/kidney and/or the liver. So that includes bats, apes, monkeys, sloths, humans, and guinea pigs! The Inuit get their vitamin C (if living/eating traditionally), from reindeer liver, muktuk, and seal brain - all eaten raw so that the vit C isn't destroyed by cooking. Some seaweed, too.

Vimala Padmaraj

dragondawg, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT WAS WELL WRITTEN AND VERY INFORMATIVE. MY TWO SONS LIVE IN CALGARY, CANADA. I AM AN INDIAN LADY IN SOUTH INDIA.

Vimala Padmaraj

Linda Spreng, I LOVE YOUR MOTHER. I AM AN 84 YEARS YOUNG LADY OF INDIA. BY GOD'S GRACE (AND THE PILLS I SWALLOW) I AM ACTIVE AND OF SOUND MIND (THANK GOD). MAY GOD BLESS US ALL.

l cgosselin

Fran Graybowski , I saw that too 😂😂

Nick Bretland

A 100% meat diet with no fruit or vegetables will cause Scurvy: lack of vitamin C. Humans can’t manufacture their own Vitamin C, unlike other carnivores

bina sarmah

Shirley Miller, PPl do adopt according to their food.

bina sarmah

My grandmother was vegetarian no meat, no fish or no egg. She died in her nineties. Never complained about anything, worked hard and lived happy.

Krishna Chandra Singh Sanger

Sambamurti Sv, I am sure that you are a lactovegetarian and milk comes from mammals (animals). Life would be very difficult if we decided to choose our food as the Inuit or the Vegans do. We love to pamper our senses, namely, vision (with beautiful natural scenes, pictures by painters), smell (various perfumes--remember Petrichor, i.e., the first rain at the beginning of summer, the aroma from food), touch (hugging and caressing ones young, pets,and lover, the feeling of the morning breeze during summer) so then why not indulge the sense of taste by consuming whatsoever is our fancy. The type of food we eat depends upon the society we are born in and to be precise, what we are taught by our parents regarding food. I am an 82 years old man from north of India and in good health, and mostly eat vegetarian food with milk and eggs on a regular basis but from time to time indulge my taste buds by consuming foods from different parts of India and the rest of the globe. I exercise at least 5 times a week and visit a gym on a regular basis. I still have all my teeth and my hair is black with some grey thrown in. The only precaution I take is to 'Eat all types of food but never in excess'.

Ron Fussell

Well,the inuit people have adapted over a long period of time to be able to eat what they do.The moose is edible,very dark,they eat stinky moss,remember that.seal meat is another story,I doubt few could swallow it,whale fat,ugh!They can grow some things in their migration.Northern Alaskan tribes literally will eat anything and everything,they love seal,caribou..not that bad,everything goes in a pot, and boiled,boiled moose nose?they use it all.I was in point barrow Alaska in 71,it was pretty primitive,only two colors,black and white.and damn cold.