RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
May 14, 2012 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2012 at 10:27 pm by BethK.)
Me, living out here in ranch/feedlot/farming country, I still think I'm doing good to get t-bones for $5.99 (US) per POUND. You're paying that much for a KG! Wow!
There is one major nutrient that does not come from plants. That is vitamin B-12. Lack of vitamin B-12 leads to depression and fatigue, and long-term deficiency leads to brain malfunction or misdevelopment in foetuses and children.
This shows me that humans evolved to eat meat. Human's have both incisors and canines in their teeth - indicating that we are omnivores.
Certainly, one can get adequate vitamin B-12 from supplements - or have food which is fortified with vitamin B-12. It can be artificially synthesized, but that is a recent development (decades) in the time homo sapiens have existed.
Lacto-ovo vegetarians can get adequte vitamin B-12 from their diets without a problem.
There is one major nutrient that does not come from plants. That is vitamin B-12. Lack of vitamin B-12 leads to depression and fatigue, and long-term deficiency leads to brain malfunction or misdevelopment in foetuses and children.
This shows me that humans evolved to eat meat. Human's have both incisors and canines in their teeth - indicating that we are omnivores.
Certainly, one can get adequate vitamin B-12 from supplements - or have food which is fortified with vitamin B-12. It can be artificially synthesized, but that is a recent development (decades) in the time homo sapiens have existed.
Lacto-ovo vegetarians can get adequte vitamin B-12 from their diets without a problem.