RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
February 1, 2014 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2014 at 1:08 pm by James2014.)
(February 1, 2014 at 12:22 pm)StoryBook Wrote: Our body's are designed to eat BOTH meat and veggies. I'm not going to go against my body's cravings because you say so.
1. Our bodies are not designed to be able to do anything. Design implies intention, we however evolved through a process of natural selection. By appealing to natural selection as a guide to ethics, one is claiming that natural selection is an inherently ethical process. However there was no intention driving it that could be directed by ethics, so it makes no sense to appeal to natural selection.
2. Yes, we have evolved to be omnivores. But all that means is that some point in our evolution eating meat gave us a selective advantage in passing on our genes to our offspring, such that we became physiologically capable of being able to survive on an diet of animals and plants. It does not mean that its best for our long term health, as evolution only really cares about selection up to when we pass on those genes, and it does not take into account the change in environment which now allows us to obtain all nutrients from vegan sources. This is best demonstrated with all the evidence I have posted showing that a vegan diet produces health benefits and reduces mortality.