Little Bird
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And so it begins: again. Yet another thread devoted to the topic of whether or not meat will be on the menu sometime in the future.
I can completely understand why this topic is of such importance to many people, if you love your meat then it is perfectly understandable that you would be upset about having it taken from you. I expect I would feel the same if chocolate or beer were banned.
However what I do not understand is what useful purpose it serves to endlessly discuss it here on a diabetes forum. I get that there may be many valid reasons why meat is good for diabetes management for some people, I wouldn't doubt that, but will debating the possibility of a future cessation of eating meat, on a diabetes forum, actually do anything to prevent it from happening? It’s a diabetes forum intended to offer support and guidance to diabetics rather than a lobbying platform after all.
It seems to me that the only real outcome achieved here, by debates such as this, is to further polarize opinion so that people become more irrevocably entrenched in their own meat or no meat camp. Surely this can only foster and nurture an 'us and them' environment. Is that something we want?
Obviously I cannot know for sure any persons actual intention or desire when they post here; but given that forum rules prevent anyone from actually coming straight out and saying, 'I don’t like or I have issues with such and such a person or their choices because of x y z etc. etc', then I am left wondering, is a debate of this nature the next best thing? An implicit message, though less obvious, is as much a message as an explicit one.
The majority of posts I read around here are by people who eat a meat based LCHF diet, and yes I also get that this is most likely because that is the diet that most people find best for their own needs, and I have no issues with that at all. It makes sense. However having a large majority of one kind of viewpoint can leave other people with more of a minority viewpoint feeling pushed out or trampled over by what can seem like an oncoming stampede! I can't help but wonder if everyone is even aware of that, or if they care about that?
I have no idea whether or not meat will be on the menu in the future, that’s something I wouldn’t even try to predict, but if things carry on as they have been doing so on this forum then I predict that the Diabetes.co.uk forum will eventually become less of a diabetes support forum and more of a meat based LCHF diet forum and anyone who does not fit this profile will not feel welcome. I have already read posts from some people saying they feel like this now. I fear we may be in danger of making this forum a rather toxic environment in which only one kind of viewpoint is tolerated. Is that something we really want?
I can completely understand why this topic is of such importance to many people, if you love your meat then it is perfectly understandable that you would be upset about having it taken from you. I expect I would feel the same if chocolate or beer were banned.
However what I do not understand is what useful purpose it serves to endlessly discuss it here on a diabetes forum. I get that there may be many valid reasons why meat is good for diabetes management for some people, I wouldn't doubt that, but will debating the possibility of a future cessation of eating meat, on a diabetes forum, actually do anything to prevent it from happening? It’s a diabetes forum intended to offer support and guidance to diabetics rather than a lobbying platform after all.
It seems to me that the only real outcome achieved here, by debates such as this, is to further polarize opinion so that people become more irrevocably entrenched in their own meat or no meat camp. Surely this can only foster and nurture an 'us and them' environment. Is that something we want?
Obviously I cannot know for sure any persons actual intention or desire when they post here; but given that forum rules prevent anyone from actually coming straight out and saying, 'I don’t like or I have issues with such and such a person or their choices because of x y z etc. etc', then I am left wondering, is a debate of this nature the next best thing? An implicit message, though less obvious, is as much a message as an explicit one.
The majority of posts I read around here are by people who eat a meat based LCHF diet, and yes I also get that this is most likely because that is the diet that most people find best for their own needs, and I have no issues with that at all. It makes sense. However having a large majority of one kind of viewpoint can leave other people with more of a minority viewpoint feeling pushed out or trampled over by what can seem like an oncoming stampede! I can't help but wonder if everyone is even aware of that, or if they care about that?
I have no idea whether or not meat will be on the menu in the future, that’s something I wouldn’t even try to predict, but if things carry on as they have been doing so on this forum then I predict that the Diabetes.co.uk forum will eventually become less of a diabetes support forum and more of a meat based LCHF diet forum and anyone who does not fit this profile will not feel welcome. I have already read posts from some people saying they feel like this now. I fear we may be in danger of making this forum a rather toxic environment in which only one kind of viewpoint is tolerated. Is that something we really want?