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Cows have huge digestive system, and chew all day long — to be able to extract nutrients from plants. You, as a human, probably have more productive uses of you

Cows have huge digestive system, and chew all day long — to be able to extract nutrients from plants. You, as a human, probably have more productive uses of your day. I'm not saying that you shouldn't eat veggies. I am just saying that staying long-term healthy on a vegan diet seems to me much more complicated than just eating meat. Of course, eating a single product all the time is unhealthy, no matter what product — every living organism requires variance.

woodruffw 2y ago
> You, as a human, probably have more productive uses of your day. Much like a cow, I don't think about my digestive system -- I let the parasympathetic system take care of that :-) > Of course, eating a single product all the time is unhealthy, no matter what product — every living organism requires variance. This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed.
- nlitened 2y ago
  > This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed. It's a different statement, but it's not contradictory. Simple answer is: eat fatty meat. Complex answer is: just like everything in this universe, it depends on many factors, and no single answer is correct in every single context - but eating fatty meat will get you 90% where you want to be for 10% of effort.
smegger001 2y ago
We could look at the diet of the species most closely related to us chimps which is mostly fruit nuts, tuberous roots, insects, and opportunisticly meat (about 2%). You could bump the meat up a few percent to avoid bugs or add more nuts/legumes and acheive a healthy diet.
- nlitened 2y ago
  It's a good point. As I understand, it is still debated whether increased meat consumption allowed our bigger brains — though I agree that a balanced and varied diet of natural unprocessed ingredients is likely the healthiest, although not the easiest to maintain, I think.

woodruffw 2y ago

> You, as a human, probably have more productive uses of your day. Much like a cow, I don't think about my digestive system -- I let the parasympathetic system take care of that :-) > Of course, eating a single product all the time is unhealthy, no matter what product — every living organism requires variance. This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed.

nlitened 2y ago
> This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed. It's a different statement, but it's not contradictory. Simple answer is: eat fatty meat. Complex answer is: just like everything in this universe, it depends on many factors, and no single answer is correct in every single context - but eating fatty meat will get you 90% where you want to be for 10% of effort.

smegger001 2y ago

We could look at the diet of the species most closely related to us chimps which is mostly fruit nuts, tuberous roots, insects, and opportunisticly meat (about 2%). You could bump the meat up a few percent to avoid bugs or add more nuts/legumes and acheive a healthy diet.

nlitened 2y ago
It's a good point. As I understand, it is still debated whether increased meat consumption allowed our bigger brains — though I agree that a balanced and varied diet of natural unprocessed ingredients is likely the healthiest, although not the easiest to maintain, I think.