Emotions (distress, fear, anger, hate) are caused by chemicals produced in the body. The trigger that causes this production is unimportant. These chemicals perforate your entire body during extreme bouts of emotion, thus being transferred and stored in your very flesh. It's a fact that women and pre-pubescent males can excrete some of these chemicals from their bodies through their tears. Now, butchered animals surely experience extreme emotions during the process of slaughter and, indeed, throughout their entire tortured lives. So, slaughtered animal flesh would contain high levels of emotion causing chemicals. Furthermore, these stored emotions would be ones of sorrow, depression, anger, and other negative emotions. If these chemicals were absorbed during digestion they could cause a range of mental problems; perhaps these emotion-causing chemicals are the cause of many peoples unexplainable depression. Since, after all, modern man eats more meat than ever.
Now, I need more scientific research for this theory. If anyone has any good evidence for or against it please write to me at [email protected] . Eh, I know you will reply anyway even if you don't have any good evidence.
Daniela Patruno.
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