By the end of the year I'll at least be a weekday vegetarian (weekend meat eater) consuming organic locally-sourced meat only if not on an entirely vegan diet. The only thing standing in my way is the cost and good enough local sources. There's really just no good excuses left for those of us with working brains.
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
I am a carnivore. I am an obligate carnivore. I am a human being, a highly evolved superpredator that's spent the past 5.-odd million years evolving to get up here.
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I don't really care to debate this with you but it could be argued that true carnivores are not only capable of capturing and killing prey through their strength, speed and bare hands but could also eat it without the aid of fire and knives. Their intestines are also much shorter than ours to allow for the much quicker passing of meat through the body...etc.
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
A further question: if livestock production is such a huge problem, why did not the enormous herds of ruminants (bison, deer, antelope, etc) roaming the pre-Columbian Americas not cause this problem? Likewise the equally impressive herds of large animals which inhabited Africa until the 1890s?
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I'd assume it's because the current factory farm system of meat production - much more factory than actual farm - didn't exist then.
It's nice to see Aberkok and BG beat me to the punch.