Veganism?

[Faith No More]

Please tell me that is not a real quote.

[Darwinian]

[Faith No More]

That...is...EPIC!

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Yet sometimes I wonder if there is truth to the bible and the Quran that obviously says you can eat meat.

Thanks

Meat is good cuz meat is good. Not cuz "god" said so.

[thesummerqueen]

I consider myself a fairly empathetic person and I seriously can't work up the bad feelings people seem to have about eating meat.

I mostly feel bad about them clear-cutting forests and jungles for cattle land. I don't feel bad about eating the beef.

Go figure.

[Anomalocaris]

If humans were adopted to a purely or even largely vegetarian diet, humans would have small chests an an enormous distended belly with miles of digestive track in which plant matter can linger and ferment, sort of like cows, or like gorillas with their cone shaped rib cage sitting atop a big sack of a belly.

But instead humans have barrel shaped chest and rib cage adopted to accommodate an prodigious aerobic capacity needed to run down prey animals over long distances, and a small belly suitable mostly for high quality neutrient sources like meat.

Humans are not fast as far as runners in animal kingdoms go, so our running is not for running away from predators. But we are damn impressive long distance runners. almost no other animal can run win a marathon race with a fit human. It's not for chasing down plants that homo Sapiens have evolved to be the best long distance runner in mammalian world.

So next time when a vegan try to show off her trim stomach, tell her the only reason why she is genetically capable of a flat tummy is because she was not genetically suitable to be a vegetarian.

[thesummerqueen]

[Doubting Thomas]

I think I read somewhere that if humans didn't start eating meat, it's likely we wouldn't have evolved bigger and smarter brains with which to learn how to use tools and manipulate our environment. Mainly due to the protein in meat, IIRC.

At any rate, we tend to like food which contains fat, because fat tastes good to us. This is an evolutionary leftover because fat is high in nutrients & energy, and humans who ate a lot of fat were more easily able to survive lean times.

So the question is, if we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they so dang tasty?

[Minimalist]

[Diamond]