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> you can thrive on a vegetarian diet as long as you take vitamins B12, D and some iron, you should be fine. but having been meat eaters for 2.4 million years
by kmlx 5y ago
> you can thrive on a vegetarian diet
as long as you take vitamins B12, D and some iron, you should be fine.
but having been meat eaters for 2.4 million years will be hard to shake off.
if anything eating beef will increase in the future as more and more people rise to the “middle class”. we should probably take this into consideration and it’s implications, no matter how you feel about the subject.
- bigDinosaur 5y agoPeople bring this up, but like, is eating dog okay? Even if you say yes, is factory farming them okay? Is eating human okay? No - just because we may have had meat in our diet for millions of years doesn't mean we have to choose the most advanced life to factory farm and eat. We certainly have more reservations against eating certain kinds of meat than can be explained purely from an evolutionary perspective - and that aspect should be expanded to cover more species. Plenty of Westerners will be outraged when the Japanese slaughter a whale but seem fine with the immense suffering in the farms in their own country. I don't think this can be reconciled if people knew just what actually went on. I'll note that personally I don't shame people for eating meat - that's just not a nice way to live and leads to immense resentment. I do think people are making the wrong choice here though.