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The best way I found to acquire information is to see what passed the test of time. For example, if humans have been eating red meat for 200,000 years, it's ver
by DVassallo 8y ago
The best way I found to acquire information is to see what passed the test of time. For example, if humans have been eating red meat for 200,000 years, it's very unlikely it is net harmful. It's still possible, but the burden of proof is on who thinks it's harmful. (And it better be very strong evidence.) Mother nature has a very good filter for harmful things.
- DenisM 8y agoHumans didn't wash hands for 200,000 years and suffered from horrible diseases. Test of time is hardly conclusive.
- DVassallo 8y agoNot doing something can't be tested against the test of time. Hygiene and antibiotics obviously improved our lives. So did cooking food and building civilizations. But if red meat was eaten for 200K years, we've very likely adapted ourselves to benefit from it... not only not get harmed by it. (Obviously in the right quantities.)
- bluejekyll 8y agoInterestingly, the overuse of antibiotics has the likelyhood of causing them to create superbugs that make the antibiotics completely useless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse Also, while cleanliness is absolutely important, over cleanliness appears to be a potential cause of asthma and allergies in general. https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140606/too-clean-homes-may-encourage-child-allergies-asthma-study https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140606/too-clean-home...
- rwmj 8y agoPeople only lived into their 50s (assuming they survived infancy). (Figures from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over... )
- DVassallo 8y agoA life expectancy of 50 doesn’t mean “people only lived into their 50s”. We definitely didn’t just gain the ability to live until 90 in the last 50 years. We’ve been designed that way (by Mother Nature).
- nkozyra 8y agoIt's the average age of mortality, clearly you're dealing with the mean or mode here. People lived to be 80, 90,100 but that's only part of average lifespan. Once you take out infant and childhood mortality you can see that rising over time.
- JohnJamesRambo 8y agoI’d like to live to be a little older than prehistoric man.
- markstos 8y agoHumans have been murdering and raping each other for centuries.
- markstos 8y agoHumans descended from primates, which have been eating a mostly vegetarian diet for about 55 million years or so. Why not got with the diet that stood the the test of time for much longer? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancest... Drawdown.org found that plant-based diets are a top solution for climate change-- something that wasn't a concern 200k years ago. https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank Harvard research also found that we need to eliminate beef and dairy to avoid climate catastrophe. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2018.1528965?af=R& https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2018.1... Mother nature does have a good filter for harmful things: If humans don't address our contributions to climate change, we may be the thing that's filtered!