DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: Even the WHO says that red kidney beans, which are quite commonly eaten around the world, that if they're not cooked and treated properly that as little as 5 red kidney beans uncooked can actually put people in the hospital because of how toxic they are.

Out of the 400,000 plants in the world most of them will kill you.  The main reason I stopped eating plants was because of basic botany and biology though.  My professor of cancer biology at University of Washington in Seattle told me 26 years ago just how toxic plants fruits, vegetables, grains and all the seeds and legumes and beans that we eat as a normal mainstay of our diet, and how harmful these are, how toxic they are to the human body and to health.  We're told that they're extremely healthy but they actually they can be quite harmful and they can even be carcinogenic.  Even the WHO says that red kidney beans, which are quite commonly eaten around the world, that if they're not cooked and treated properly that as little as 5 red kidney beans uncooked can actually put people in the hospital because of how toxic they are.  Again this is a well-known fact in biology and botany that plants defend themselves by making toxins.  This is why out of the 400,000 plants in the world most of them will kill you or make you extremely sick.  There are very few examples from a percentage-wise basis of plants that we can eat in a raw form.  There are maybe a few hundred and we've increased that to a few thousand by fermentation, by cooking, by soaking them with chemicals and other sorts of industrial processes to bring down that toxic load and make these things more edible and nutritious.  But this is proof positive that we are not designed to eat these plants because if we were then we would have the biological capacity and enzymes to do this naturally. We wouldn't have to cook it. We wouldn't have to soak it and lye and clay and ash and other sorts of chemicals or ferment it in order to reduce the toxicity to make this edible.  We've made a lot of inedible toxic deadly plants edible by chemical treatment and other sort of techniques such as fermenting and cooking.  If you get lost in the woods and you run out of food, you can't just eat any random plant because most of them will make you very sick or could even kill you.  And just because something doesn't kill you on the spot, doesn't mean it doesn't have any toxins in it.  We eat grapes and avocados without cooking them but if you feed those to a cat or a dog that can actually kill it.  So there are toxins in there. There are things that are harmful.  It's just that we have a bit more defenses to some of those toxins.