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a thought on vegetarianism
Kochieboy:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on March 13, 2017, 05:20:00 PM ---the scientific community has proven this stuff too many times
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Before PhantOS goes apestuff on me with the vegan principles of calling me a pagan who wishes nothing but to bathe in the blood of animals, I'd care to point out this interesting book I read by the acclaimed paleoanthropologist by the name of Daniel Lieberman who supports the idea that we are omnivores by nature. It's called The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease and it's a wonderful read for anyone interested in the history of the human diet and body.
Trust me, the man is well known in the field and it's a book I had the pleasure of reading in college during our study of the human diet over the years.
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Kochieboy on March 13, 2017, 05:22:21 PM ---Before PhantOS goes apestuff on me with the vegan principles of calling me a pagan who wishes nothing but to bathe in the blood of animals, I'd care to point out this interesting book I read by the acclaimed paleoanthropologist by the name of Daniel Lieberman who supports the idea that we are omnivores by nature. It's called The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease and it's a wonderful read for anyone interested in the history of the human diet and body.
Trust me, the man is well known in the field and it's a book I had the pleasure of reading in college during our study of the human diet over the years.
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why would i go apestuff over someone's diet? i eat taco bell literally 24/7 and i'm in love with pork chops and stuff. i just know as a fact that we aren't anatomically fit to digest meat. similarly, we're not anatomically fit to run at 80 mph, but as a compromise we use bikes and automobiles to get past our limitations. fire is just a technology that we use to make stuff more accessible to us, and we make good use of it by cooking our meat so that it doesn't destroy our immune system on the daily
humans are designed to eat only vegetables, and if we were to have a diet consisting only of vegetables from birth to death, we'd still be very healthy. when you switch from meat to vegetables only, the bacteria ecosystem in your gut needs to adjust and it causes a bunch of health issues like low energy and fatigue
Kochieboy:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on March 13, 2017, 05:26:07 PM ---why would i go apestuff over someone's diet? i eat taco bell literally 24/7 and i'm in love with pork chops and stuff. i just know as a fact that we aren't anatomically fit to digest meat. similarly, we're not anatomically fit to run at 80 mph, but as a compromise we use bikes and automobiles to get past our limitations. fire is just a technology that we use to make stuff more accessible to us
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Meat, as Daniel Lieberman would say, is a part of a high calorie diet which was necessary for our ancestors who used to be hunter gatherers and in order to prevent a deficit, we needed to eat meat as a source of food to fill what grains and tubers couldn't. So to say that our body is not omnivorous by nature is completely false.
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Kochieboy on March 13, 2017, 05:28:35 PM ---Meat, as Daniel Lieberman would say, is a part of a high calorie diet which was necessary for our ancestors who used to be hunter gatherers and in order to prevent a deficit, we needed to eat meat as a source of food to fill what grains and tubers couldn't. So to say that our body is not omnivorous by nature is completely false.
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our behavior as humans is omnivorous. we can eat meat and vegetables, and eating both is clearly beneficial for us. however, we and our ancestors were born herbivores, not omnivores. if our ancestors didn't eat meat, we probably wouldn't have advanced as a species, but however long our race has been eating meat, it doesn't change the fact that we're biologically herbivore
at this point, humans can maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle as both omnivore and herbivore, but not carnivore.
Kochieboy:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on March 13, 2017, 05:31:14 PM ---our behavior as humans is omnivorous. we can eat meat and vegetables, and eating both is clearly beneficial for us. however, we and our ancestors were born herbivores, not omnivores. if our ancestors didn't eat meat, we probably wouldn't have advanced as a species, but however long our race has been eating meat, it doesn't change the fact that we're biologically herbivore
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Please, I urge you to educate yourself more on the matter.