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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
aberkok, I don't mean cooking preparation, I mean actual farming instead of industrial production of food. Our problem is that we've bypassed nature's controls, not that we eat meat in the first place.
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It's the fucking fact that we have bypassed nature's controls ( whatever that means ) that we can grow so much fucking food, both meat and vegetables. We are also living longer and procreating more while eating all of this "unhealthy, processed" food. You can't even be a healthy vegan without bypassing nature's controls. Meat provides a lot of nutrients that are hard/almost impossible to find in natural vegetation. A lot of these nutrients, especially and excess of protein, led to our brain growth, which then led to higher intelligence, etc.
Yes, we can now get these nutrients in a vegan diet, for the most part, but really only if we supplement somehow, such as the b12 deficiency mentioned prior. This person could have also just ate a small amount of meat occasionally...
I'll go ahead and admit that there are valid arguments to reduce our dependance on meat and dairy, since now we can, and it might help the environment. We also need to curb population growth, or else we're going to eat ourselves out of house and home, planet-wise.
On a side note, it's really neat how we used animals all along as food factories. Ruminants would eat grasses and other vegetation that we could not digest, and then we would eat them, because they were digestible. Or we could milk them. Most of the biomass of vegetation on this planet was in forms we couldn't eat, mainly grass.