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Plants do not taste great, and they are not healthy. Most plants require significant genetic editing (in form of 10k+ years of selective breeding), processing
by YUMad 7y ago
Plants do not taste great, and they are not healthy.
Most plants require significant genetic editing (in form of 10k+ years of selective breeding), processing (milling, soaking, cooking) and adding secondary plant products just for taste (spices) to be palatable. Not to mention need for aditional fat and emulgators.
Most of plants, even after 10k years of selective breeding, are toxic for us in some way. Even simple green leafy vegetables are full of oxalic acid.
On top of that, modern agriculture approach of artificial fertilizing, and high nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium levels in dirt that is starved of other nutrients through constant yearly use, results in changes in plants where they contain higher % of simple carbs, while not having normal levels of other micronutrients.
No hunter-gatherer group in the last 2 million years of evolution has exceeded 50% of caloric intake being plant-based, and only some small groups near ecuator have managed to get close to 50%.
During the most recent part of our evolution, part that has made us human, we have evolved to eat predominantly meat diet. Agriculture sidestepped that, and coopted evolutional remnants of a time 50-60 million years ago, when our ancestors were 5kg proto-monkey frugivores.
High-carb plant-based diets are undoing of evolution. Human brains, and general human stature, have been getting smaller during the last 20k years, accelerating in the last 10k.