Vegan/vegitarian people here are ignoring the second probabilistic dependency when talking about health. They forget that the cleverer people tend to become vegan/vegitarian, and those people are more attentive to their health.
Humans do have sharp teeth. Teeth of my dogs are not that much sharper then my own teeth, although my dog may be able to bite harder. Differences are because humans do not hunt with their teeth. We are physiologically, mnivores. Also, that stuff about how long we live: we are not evolved to live long, so what we need to eat to live long is mostly coincidental.
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Originally Posted by voice Humans are animals - just another species. Some species are adapted to meat-eating, some are not. Further, if some humans continue to eat meat their bodies will start to adapt - their intestines will shorten, etc. If they did so in the wild, they might get sharp claws and teeth, but with the current meat-eaters diet, the most they could hope for is to grow a fork. If that is what you want to become in a few millions years, a species adapted to eating meat and ingesting ridiculous chemicals posing as food, then keep eating what you are. You will change (you are changing), in more ways than one. There is a reason the human body naturally takes a fuel of fruits and vegetables. As it adapts, you'll end up with a different body, so you won't be what we call "human". In fact, you may just die off. Extinction is a form of adaptation. The human species may not bend in that direction without failure, as cancer and other diseases is demonstrating. |
What a FUD, human evolution is an extremely long term problem, and it will cause ethical dillema regardless of diet. Our intestines are already short, we need to cook nearly all our food.
Nothing about chemicals is 'ridiculous' I am just fine eating chemicals as long as it works. Unnatural? Dont whine, we live unnatural lives anyway, and the more independence on the biological earth the better.
The people who keep living naturally naturally will be tied to earth, the rest will conquer space, to make analogous FUD.
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Originally Posted by voice Humans are a more evolved species, and as their awareness grows, they seek to 'tread lightly'. On an individual level, you can tell a lot about a person's 'personal evolution' by looking at their diet, and at what they kill and how they kill it (or hire others to kill it). For an evolved human, animals are friends not food. |
We are a differently evolved animal, not more or less. Evolution is not towards ethics, we will have to work on that ourselves. FUD is not the way.
I myself dont buy much meat myself. In restaurants or if i get served meat ill eat it, also if there is a little meat on something i might still buy it.
Non-meat can be more efficient then meat in terms of production. On the other hand, some argicultural by-products can so far only be processed via animals, so to a certain extend meat is efficient. We produce way more then that amount of meat, though, i think.