Accoring to PETA apergers is caused by meat...

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There is no medication that makes a child less Aspergian. However, there are medications that lessen anxiety. It said his anxiety decreased and he was able to stop taking medication. The odds are that it was anti-anxiety medication. It says he is less anxious. Not less autistic. There is no medicine that makes anybody less autistic.

You jumped to an unwarranted conclusion.

So because the medication did not remove the autism, and just the symptoms of the autism, I am wrong?

Anxiety and sleep issues aren't core issues of autism, just issues often related to it.

Anxiety and sleep issues aren't core issues of autism, just issues often related to it.

And it says "behavior" in the article too, not just anxiety and sleep issues.

Yes, it says, "his behaviour greatly improved". This does not mean he behaved less autisticly. The article then goes on to describe, in very glowing terms, his special interest in animals and how he will spend "an insane amount of time" studying them. That's a special interest, practiced with autistic dedication, and apparently PETA approves (because it is animals). '

In the described article, he is no less autistic (he still devotes time and energy to his special interest), he is just healthier. And that is clearly fine with PETA.


For the record, since I'm a parent I can read between the lines of "his behaviour greatly improved". When parents say that, what they mean is "meltdowns greatly decreased". This isn't unique to autistic children. A parent of an NT teen will also say, "his behaviour greatly improved" if that NT teen suddenly stops slamming doors and stomping furiously through the house. It's not an autism thing.

I think Life should also be an option to show them as well . Humans were made to eat meat, Why do you think we have canines?

We have very small canines, which indicates a plant-based diet, with some meat eating. We dont have the same gut as cats or dogs, which is a short, very acidic gut made to kill germs in meat.. we have a medium sized gut similar to rats and pigs which are also omnivorous.

There are groups of people in say, India, who have always been vegetarian. Some tribes of hominids were shown to have a vegetarian diet. It really depended on what was around to eat at the time, and also, religious reasons in case of the people in India.

On the other hand, both Julius Caesar and Cornelius Tacitus attributed the tall height and large limbs of the Germans of the Roman period to their diet of meat and milk.

Funny how Hitler, who worshiped his ancient ancestors, chose vegetarianism over their diet. Very un-German.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

so all predators have it?

yes, eating meat and milk does help people grow taller and stronger. But a more plant oriented diet generally results in a person living longer. So it depends on your aim I guess.

As for Hitler, well he is only one vegetarian in history (technically a flexitarian as he ate some meat). There is no point in holding hitler up as an example and saying "See? All vegetarians are mass-murdering psychopaths."

It is like saying that because Jeffrey Dahmer, Stalin, Attilla The Hun, ate meat, all people who eat meat are like them. The average person is not a depotic dictator, or a serial killer, whatever their diet.

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so then its epidemic amongst mammels

Thats strange...my son decided to become vegetarian a few years ago... he has Aspergers.....if anything his anxiety has increased and he is less healthy than before...this is rubbish!

^ Chances are then, he is not eating a balanced diet. If you are a vegetarian or vegan you have to be careful that you are getting enough iron, B12, vitamin D and calcium. That involves eating in a certain way. There is no point in becoming a vegetarian if you are going to eat junk food. And, there are many vegetarian sugary, or fatty foods .

A lot of veggies I met look like anaemic waifs. I think I'll stick with being an omnivore and eat a balanced diet.
PETA are weirdos, they mean well but their members ruin it for them. Some things I've read make sense, like being against animal circuses and that. But most of the time they just take it to ridiculous extremes. It seems you can't swat a fly without them bawwwwing over it. And what amuses me is how they make animals out to be sweet, innocent flowers that are perfect in every way and humans (yeah I know we're animals but I'm not going into pedant mode just now) are all evil and bad because *GASP* we eat animals and all that stuff. But fail to realise the "animal" world is pretty brutal, for example more capuchin monkeys are killed by each other than by any predator. And we are part of that world as well, so I shall enjoy my sausages guilt free thankyouverymuch.

Hitler was not a vegetarian. He promoted that myth, because he thought it made him look disciplined to the masses, and he did eat vegetarian three days a week, mainly for bowel issues. But he was not ever a vegetarian. His favourite dish, according to menus left behind, was blutworst sausage.