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Could humans really be considered as a new generation of vampire livestock? Are meat diets the only way to live stong and healthy? The answers to thess questins lie within evidence provided ove centuries of meat and blood consuming carnivores, and the herbavores of past civilizations. Aside from the benfit of puutng on muscl, meat based diets hav3 served as a deceased detriment to the human healt system. Heart dcease, cancer, liver decease, and rich mans decease or gout, are some of the symptoms of ingesting meat and blood into th le bodies system. For Vampires, the ingestive system would incinerate ttose symptoms. Doesn’t work as effient in the human body, but maknd still incist on continuing the Dracula nutrian guide. …show more content…

There isn’t any Hollywood make-up, theme-songs, or stage settings, but the image is as crystal as the Spanish Cueva de los Cristales, or cave of crystals. Steaks ordered at medium, medium rare and rare tempatures. Sent to the table of resturants undercooked with blood pushing through the surface, blood juice dripping and running along the plate as the dish is place in front customers. Beef burgers ordered in the same fashion. Leaking blood on the bun, transforming the bread into a soggy red material. Raw oysters are ordered by the dozens, rinsed and uncooked, they are swallowed whole. There are taboo riturals where goat, chicken and even human blood is sacrificed and drank for spiritual and religion reasons, Krys, S. (2010). Slayers and their vampires: A cultural history of killing the dead. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 52(3), 460-463. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/849225533?accountid=35796. Somewhere in the midst of human evolution, a carnivorist, blood drinking meat devouring demon or human, arose of the various other types of …show more content…

Back when technology was obsolete, cars were horses pulling carridges, and guns were hardened tipped arrowheads slung through the air by force of a curved piece of wood and sturdy string, there was a decease called Gout or rich man’s decease. Gout is a condition that has been reported to have afflicted historic figures, subjecting patients to chronic lead poisoning, impairs urate excretion, leading to hyperuricemia, and the composition of the crystals in the joints is similar to that of crystals caused by common gout, Couper, R. T. L., Fernández, P.,L., & Alonso, P. L. (2006). The severe gout of emperor Charles V/THE AUTHORS REPLY. The New England Journal of Medicine, 355(18), 1935-6; author reply 1936. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/223926943?accountid=35796. A condition found in the rich or more privelaged. It seems as though the rich would eat meat back then as a means of symbolic power and royalty. Note, that there is no record of the poor, or those without money and status ever diagnostge with gout. Hence the reason the name rich man’s decease. Only to be affiliated with the rich because, in those times, rich people were the only ones who could afford the expencive taste of meat. Despite the

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