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Artichokes. The other white meat.

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Can a vegan diet save the world? According to a new report from the UN, the answer is “yes.” The Guardian writes that “a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty, and the worst impacts of climate change.” The report notes that the Western preference for meat- and dairy-heavy diets is “unsustainable,” especially as the population is expected to grow to 9.1 billion by 2050.

The report adds that “animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals.” Plus, livestock raised for meat consumes a large portion of the world’s crops and a lot of freshwater. Currently, agriculture, “particularly meat and dairy products,” account for 70 percent of the world’s freshwater consumption. It also accounts for 39 percent of the globe’s total land use and 19 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions.

Importantly, as the population grows, the impact from agriculture will substantially grow as well, thanks to the the increasing consumption of animal products. The report notes that “unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives.” The only option is to cut down on the number of animal products consumed.
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
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Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
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And yes, you will need to take a B-12 supplement and some people need a vegan or fish based supplement for DHA, otherwise a whole-foods vegan diet with beans, nuts, veggies and fruit can meet all needs including (especially) calcium. Maybe they'll still let us cheat with sardines every now and then, that's where I get my DHA.
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
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Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
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Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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He means anorexia diet?
UN can show us the way by starting first.
We don´t need meat, but going vegan is insane.
No eggs no diary no nothing
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Bullshit vegan my ass.

I've gone through many many diets.
And a no meat diet will kill you, will malnourish you, will not let your children grow, will castrate you, will make you infertile.

Vegan promotion is population control / depopulation.

Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
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NO!

What is unsustainable are the Third World populations breeding like rats, period.

No amount of depriving the west of the food WE GROW can fix this.

The west should not be forced to pay for their clusterfucks
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That's what is going to come down the pipeline in a few more years. They'll kill off all the cattle and pigs, all the livestock so that the land can be bought up and used to grown crops.

The fat guy already discussed this one day on his show. it's coming,and I hope I'm not here to see it.

Hint: Now you know why Monsanto is taking the Indian farmer's lands by giving them bad seed they know will not produce any crops so the farmers are killing themselves after they lose their land and Monsanto cleans up. Pretty fucking smart, huh?
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sounds great, hitler and the UN approve, so I am all over this.
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67389541


Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
 Quoting: Boss Moss


Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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Vegantard Child?

[link to www.psychologytoday.com (secure)]

Since human health relies on a diet that includes animal-derived nutrients, a debate on the ethics of eating animals should be confined to questions of quantity and quality. How much meat and fish do we need to eat? What is the optimal quality of what we eat? What quality of life is granted to the animals on which our diets depend?

As a physician, it seems clear to me that there are considerable health benefits to eating animals. Current epidemiological data support the need for animal-derived nutrients to provide optimal brain health, in particular. For example, B12 and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for the development of a healthy brain are concentrated only in animal products. Excluding animal products from your diet, on the other hand, carries significant risk. A recent survey of 689 men found 52 percent of the 122 vegans were vitamin B12 deficient, which leads to fatigue, depression, decreased cognition, and irreversible nerve damage. As we age, low B12 levels are associated with shrinkage in brain regions related to memory and moods.
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
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Why would anyone in their right mind want to live 20 years more under the UN?
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Well, all those westerners boo-hooing that they can't live without their cheeseburgers would add 20 or so healthy active years to their lives if they were forced to go vegan..the science on all or mostly vegan diets and life extension is rock solid.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67389541


Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
 Quoting: Boss Moss


Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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Vegantard Child?

[link to www.psychologytoday.com (secure)]

Since human health relies on a diet that includes animal-derived nutrients, a debate on the ethics of eating animals should be confined to questions of quantity and quality. How much meat and fish do we need to eat? What is the optimal quality of what we eat? What quality of life is granted to the animals on which our diets depend?

As a physician, it seems clear to me that there are considerable health benefits to eating animals. Current epidemiological data support the need for animal-derived nutrients to provide optimal brain health, in particular. For example, B12 and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for the development of a healthy brain are concentrated only in animal products. Excluding animal products from your diet, on the other hand, carries significant risk. A recent survey of 689 men found 52 percent of the 122 vegans were vitamin B12 deficient, which leads to fatigue, depression, decreased cognition, and irreversible nerve damage. As we age, low B12 levels are associated with shrinkage in brain regions related to memory and moods.
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What aload of BS. Theres another source of food that can provide vitamin b12 INSECTs. which is in fact the proper diet for human beings who are frugivours. The human body is designed to eat fruit with smaller amounts of vegetables and just a few insects is enough to supply the body with everything it needs. you only need to eat 3 or 4 crickets per day to get the b12 you need. We need to turn around our nasty eating habits.
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hemp oil provides the necessary dietary fats and in the correct ratios.....
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Fact remains, you want to dictate what people eat, you have lost your mind.
And of course these little vegantards are connected to the global worming scam.
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Send them all to china for wake up call
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That's what is going to come down the pipeline in a few more years. They'll kill off all the cattle and pigs, all the livestock so that the land can be bought up and used to grown crops.

The fat guy already discussed this one day on his show. it's coming,and I hope I'm not here to see it.

Hint: Now you know why Monsanto is taking the Indian farmer's lands by giving them bad seed they know will not produce any crops so the farmers are killing themselves after they lose their land and Monsanto cleans up. Pretty fucking smart, huh?
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Brilliant, but so evil it's beyond human.
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I was born in 1969.

Just as we passed 3.5 billion souls on the planet.

We passed a billion around the year 1800.

And at my grandfathers birth in 1920, he shared the globe with 2 billion others.

Today, we're approaching 8.

Fast.

And that's the core of this problem, and the unspeakable reason for most others.
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Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
 Quoting: Boss Moss


Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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Vegantard Child?

[link to www.psychologytoday.com (secure)]

Since human health relies on a diet that includes animal-derived nutrients, a debate on the ethics of eating animals should be confined to questions of quantity and quality. How much meat and fish do we need to eat? What is the optimal quality of what we eat? What quality of life is granted to the animals on which our diets depend?

As a physician, it seems clear to me that there are considerable health benefits to eating animals. Current epidemiological data support the need for animal-derived nutrients to provide optimal brain health, in particular. For example, B12 and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for the development of a healthy brain are concentrated only in animal products. Excluding animal products from your diet, on the other hand, carries significant risk. A recent survey of 689 men found 52 percent of the 122 vegans were vitamin B12 deficient, which leads to fatigue, depression, decreased cognition, and irreversible nerve damage. As we age, low B12 levels are associated with shrinkage in brain regions related to memory and moods.
 Quoting: Boss Moss

What aload of BS. Theres another source of food that can provide vitamin b12 INSECTs. which is in fact the proper diet for human beings who are frugivours. The human body is designed to eat fruit with smaller amounts of vegetables and just a few insects is enough to supply the body with everything it needs. you only need to eat 3 or 4 crickets per day to get the b12 you need. We need to turn around our nasty eating habits.
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Gorillas have pretty big arms.


I'm pretty sure they could rip a grown man's arms off his body.
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I was born in 1969.

Just as we passed 3.5 billion souls on the planet.

We passed a billion around the year 1800.

And at my grandfathers birth in 1920, he shared the globe with 2 billion others.

Today, we're approaching 8.

Fast.

And that's the core of this problem, and the unspeakable reason for most others.
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This is actually the end.

Not a huge hologram invasion.

But chaos.
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Artichokes. The other white meat.

[link to www.thegatewaypundit.com]

Can a vegan diet save the world? According to a new report from the UN, the answer is “yes.” The Guardian writes that “a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty, and the worst impacts of climate change.” The report notes that the Western preference for meat- and dairy-heavy diets is “unsustainable,” especially as the population is expected to grow to 9.1 billion by 2050.

The report adds that “animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals.” Plus, livestock raised for meat consumes a large portion of the world’s crops and a lot of freshwater. Currently, agriculture, “particularly meat and dairy products,” account for 70 percent of the world’s freshwater consumption. It also accounts for 39 percent of the globe’s total land use and 19 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions.

Importantly, as the population grows, the impact from agriculture will substantially grow as well, thanks to the the increasing consumption of animal products. The report notes that “unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives.” The only option is to cut down on the number of animal products consumed.
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Humans are not carnivorous.they are programed into believing they are. Fuck the U.N.what the hell do they care?
if you want to be healthy cut out 90% of animals you eat.

Do you want to mix animals blood with your human blood ?
WHY?
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I was born in 1969.

Just as we passed 3.5 billion souls on the planet.

We passed a billion around the year 1800.

And at my grandfathers birth in 1920, he shared the globe with 2 billion others.

Today, we're approaching 8.

Fast.

And that's the core of this problem, and the unspeakable reason for most others.
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And the solution is what? Fascism and culling the herd? No thanks.
Shocking how many Nazis see no issue with imposing their will like this. Good thing it's just a pipedream for now anyways
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Bullshit vegan my ass.

I've gone through many many diets.
And a no meat diet will kill you, will malnourish you, will not let your children grow, will castrate you, will make you infertile.

Vegan promotion is population control / depopulation.

Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
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I've never gone vegan, but I did eat a mostly vegetarian diet for a couple of years. My diet consisted of fruits, vegetables, eggs, gluten-free grains, a small amount of butter or olive oil, nuts and seeds with a small amount of fish and on rare occasions a small portion of chicken or beef. This diet may work for some people, but it made me so thin my cheeks were sunken in. I got cold easily and had to wear a lightweight jacket to be able to do my grocery shopping and this was during summertime. My hair started to thin. My skin became very dry. I could no longer absorb all my nutrients and could no longer digest all of my food.

I got so sick I thought I was going to die for about 3 months. I found the Weston A. Price Foundation's website and changed my diet. Now I include meat proteins and more healthy fats in my diet and no grains whatsoever. That was a little over 7 years ago and I still have digestive issues. I don't care what the UN says. I'm not giving up my grass fed meat.

This is what I had to eat today. For breakfast I had a green smoothie with (all organic) a banana, a small apple, 2 handfuls of spinach, wheat grass, a tsp. of turmeric, a tbs of chia seeds, a tbs of flax seeds, a slice of ginger, 2 tbs of coconut oil, a raw egg yolk and coconut milk. I also had 2 scrambled eggs cooked in butter.

For dinner I had beef bone broth and I added a small amount of beef, some onions, celery, garlic, spinach and kale. I added a raw egg yolk to my bowl. I also had an avocado.

Myths and Truths about Vegetarianism
[link to www.westonaprice.org]
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And yet the politicians will continue to eat and feed tons of meat to their families. Veggies are for the proles.

What these dumbasses don't realize is that there's a reason people eat animals. Animals can forage off greens that a human can not digest, convert that energy to a form that humans can digest, animal protein. Additionally, animals originally often foraged on rough terrain(rocky, too dry, too wet, etc...)that could not be farmed.
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And yet the politicians will continue to eat and feed tons of meat to their families. Veggies are for the proles.

What these dumbasses don't realize is that there's a reason people eat animals. Animals can forage off greens that a human can not digest, convert that energy to a form that humans can digest, animal protein. Additionally, animals originally often foraged on rough terrain(rocky, too dry, too wet, etc...)that could not be farmed.
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retard.....
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Bullshit vegan my ass.

I've gone through many many diets.
And a no meat diet will kill you, will malnourish you, will not let your children grow, will castrate you, will make you infertile.

Vegan promotion is population control / depopulation.

Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
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I've never gone vegan, but I did eat a mostly vegetarian diet for a couple of years. My diet consisted of fruits, vegetables, eggs, gluten-free grains, a small amount of butter or olive oil, nuts and seeds with a small amount of fish and on rare occasions a small portion of chicken or beef. This diet may work for some people, but it made me so thin my cheeks were sunken in. I got cold easily and had to wear a lightweight jacket to be able to do my grocery shopping and this was during summertime. My hair started to thin. My skin became very dry. I could no longer absorb all my nutrients and could no longer digest all of my food.

I got so sick I thought I was going to die for about 3 months. I found the Weston A. Price Foundation's website and changed my diet. Now I include meat proteins and more healthy fats in my diet and no grains whatsoever. That was a little over 7 years ago and I still have digestive issues. I don't care what the UN says. I'm not giving up my grass fed meat.

This is what I had to eat today. For breakfast I had a green smoothie with (all organic) a banana, a small apple, 2 handfuls of spinach, wheat grass, a tsp. of turmeric, a tbs of chia seeds, a tbs of flax seeds, a slice of ginger, 2 tbs of coconut oil, a raw egg yolk and coconut milk. I also had 2 scrambled eggs cooked in butter.

For dinner I had beef bone broth and I added a small amount of beef, some onions, celery, garlic, spinach and kale. I added a raw egg yolk to my bowl. I also had an avocado.

Myths and Truths about Vegetarianism
[link to www.westonaprice.org]
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omg what another load of BS Tell me what are exactly healthy fats....if you really was in the know you would not be eating red meat. SO you are just talking out of your ass
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Possibly, but meat provides proteins that are important to the development of the brain. Vegan kids grow up to be stupid adults.
 Quoting: Boss Moss


Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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Vegantard Child?

[link to www.psychologytoday.com (secure)]

Since human health relies on a diet that includes animal-derived nutrients, a debate on the ethics of eating animals should be confined to questions of quantity and quality. How much meat and fish do we need to eat? What is the optimal quality of what we eat? What quality of life is granted to the animals on which our diets depend?

As a physician, it seems clear to me that there are considerable health benefits to eating animals. Current epidemiological data support the need for animal-derived nutrients to provide optimal brain health, in particular. For example, B12 and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for the development of a healthy brain are concentrated only in animal products. Excluding animal products from your diet, on the other hand, carries significant risk. A recent survey of 689 men found 52 percent of the 122 vegans were vitamin B12 deficient, which leads to fatigue, depression, decreased cognition, and irreversible nerve damage. As we age, low B12 levels are associated with shrinkage in brain regions related to memory and moods.
 Quoting: Boss Moss

What aload of BS. Theres another source of food that can provide vitamin b12 INSECTs. which is in fact the proper diet for human beings who are frugivours. The human body is designed to eat fruit with smaller amounts of vegetables and just a few insects is enough to supply the body with everything it needs. you only need to eat 3 or 4 crickets per day to get the b12 you need. We need to turn around our nasty eating habits.
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No, our bodies used to be designed like that, but our bodies changed when we added meat to our diets. Our stomachs shrank and our brains increased in size.

Thanks for being living proof of veganism causing underdeveloped brains, however.

[link to www.npr.org]

Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like underground tubers, roots and berries.

It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all. But having a big gut has its drawbacks.

"You can't have a large brain and big guts at the same time," explains Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist and director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York City, which funds research on evolution. Digestion, she says, was the energy-hog of our primate ancestor's body. The brain was the poor stepsister who got the leftovers.

Until, that is, we discovered meat.

"What we think is that this dietary change around 2.3 million years ago was one of the major significant factors in the evolution of our own species," Aiello says.
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Yeah, eat Monsanto, only Monsanto. It's healthy and full of vitamins. And then, rely on your pharmacies for supplements like B12, calcium and Magnesium to survive the vegan diets.

If humans can live off only vegetables, why don't those vegans try to live without their supplements and protein shakes. Oh right, they will suffer from bone loss, liver failure, brain damage and tooth decay.

Even deers snack on birds sometimes, why shouldn't we...
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Do your research and then come back. Start with the adequacy of protein in vegan diets (most get too much) and then the health outcomes of vegan kids. No, you can't use a single anecdote, actually look at peer-reviewed scientific research. Then come back and we'll talk like smart people.
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Vegantard Child?

[link to www.psychologytoday.com (secure)]

Since human health relies on a diet that includes animal-derived nutrients, a debate on the ethics of eating animals should be confined to questions of quantity and quality. How much meat and fish do we need to eat? What is the optimal quality of what we eat? What quality of life is granted to the animals on which our diets depend?

As a physician, it seems clear to me that there are considerable health benefits to eating animals. Current epidemiological data support the need for animal-derived nutrients to provide optimal brain health, in particular. For example, B12 and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for the development of a healthy brain are concentrated only in animal products. Excluding animal products from your diet, on the other hand, carries significant risk. A recent survey of 689 men found 52 percent of the 122 vegans were vitamin B12 deficient, which leads to fatigue, depression, decreased cognition, and irreversible nerve damage. As we age, low B12 levels are associated with shrinkage in brain regions related to memory and moods.
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What aload of BS. Theres another source of food that can provide vitamin b12 INSECTs. which is in fact the proper diet for human beings who are frugivours. The human body is designed to eat fruit with smaller amounts of vegetables and just a few insects is enough to supply the body with everything it needs. you only need to eat 3 or 4 crickets per day to get the b12 you need. We need to turn around our nasty eating habits.
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No, our bodies used to be designed like that, but our bodies changed when we added meat to our diets. Our stomachs shrank and our brains increased in size.

Thanks for being living proof of veganism causing underdeveloped brains, however.

[link to www.npr.org]

Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like underground tubers, roots and berries.

It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all. But having a big gut has its drawbacks.

"You can't have a large brain and big guts at the same time," explains Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist and director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York City, which funds research on evolution. Digestion, she says, was the energy-hog of our primate ancestor's body. The brain was the poor stepsister who got the leftovers.

Until, that is, we discovered meat.

"What we think is that this dietary change around 2.3 million years ago was one of the major significant factors in the evolution of our own species," Aiello says.
 Quoting: Boss Moss

ROfl U are an idiot....our bodies have not changed if that was true then our bodies would have evolved to process palmitic acid without it casung extreme damage in the loing term to our bodies...Palmitic acid which is found in palm oil and is also the main fat found in red meat. So you really dont have a clue just go around finding stuff on the web that suits your ideas and u expect people to believe it just because you found a web page......

Meat based diet did not make us smarter that a myth put about by the meat eating lobby....
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Sounds like vegantards want to go back to eating like primative man and 'devolve'.



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