Does meat rot in your colon? Is it difficult for humans to digest meat? Many vegans believe that meat rots in your colon, and teach this to anyone who will listen. Here is the anatomy and physiology explaining how this does not and can not happen.

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This doesn't seem to address the underlying concern and makes some logical fallacies.

ANY type of "undigested food rotting inside you" is a bad thing.

Further, just because some nuts and vegetables and beans are not fully digested, is not evidence that it is rotting inside you.

Finally, could it not be the case that chewed/half digested meat looks kind of like poop, and is not as easy to identify as corn, peanuts, and broccoli?

Fiber, everyone seems to know passes through your body pretty easily. Does meat? He seems to say, I can't see meat in the early stages therefore its not in here. Whatever the meat has turned into, I don't want that rotting in my system either.

I think this "myth" (if it is fair to call it that) can be easily sourced in scientific literature.

Simply take a dead man, and measure how much indigested matter he has in his system. Are there crevices in the average colon that lends itself to get certain foods to get stuck?

No need to guess

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Fibre doesn't pass easily, it tends to slow digestion while causing damage to the intestinal lining. This is why fibre is so often causal with various digestive issues like IBS and why digestive problems are the most common complaints among vegans.

Second, meat digests almost completely. The proof of this is just how little waste is excreted after eating meat (or any animal food). The amount of waste will typically be less than half, and it will be more optimally formed which goes against a lot of the plant-based propaganda that says you need to eat fibre or you will have diarrhoea. This is simply wrong. Fibre is like a band-aid, if you're eating a terrible (plant-based) diet, you will have diarrhoea, and fibre is a way to try to mitigate this. Except it often means trading diarrhoea for constipation. Look up any ex-vegan interview and you will come across either diarrhoea or constipation and often both. All food "rots" in the colon but the problem is much worse with fibrous plant foods since there is far more waste that sits there for longer.

I've been eating animal-based for almost a decade, long before the whole carnivore thing became popular. I don't eat any fibre or vegetables whatsoever, only a little fruit occasionally. I poop regularly daily, about half the amount I did in the past, and I rarely need to wipe much because it's very well formed. I don't fart or get bloated either. This is like the holy grail to a lot of people especially women who are forcing themselves to eat stupid modern foods and suffer in silence. It's all the fault of activist-scientists pushing lies about meat.

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Fibre is like a band-aid, if you're eating a terrible (plant-based) diet, you will have diarrhoea, and fibre is a way to try to mitigate this.

I eat a bigass greeny fibery salad at least twice a month. It was this "correction" to my diet that seems to have made the machinery work much better.

Wouldn't be a good idea to go exclusively salad shooter.. but in moderation, the guts much happier with some greens now and then, than without.

Edit: literally triggered..

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could it not be the case that chewed/half digested meat looks kind of like poop

There is no "half digested meat", he addressed that :25

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It's even more ridiculous. Food rots when it is broken down by bacteria. Guess what's in your colon and intestines? Bacteria which breaks down food that didn't yet get broken down upstream. The purpose of these organs is to rot food. All food rots in your colon.