10 Reasons to go veggie 866

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:32:07 +0000, Marcus Red

That depends on which individuals you are talking about. I'm sure that some of our earlier ancestors lived in a veritable utopia while others died horrible rests eaten by predators starved in famines or plagued by boils or whatever.

This dewy eyed nostalgia is very misplaced. Personally I would rather be living as a meat eating member of to-days hi-tec society than at almost any time in the past. Equally I would not swap my current position to be a bushman in Africa or a tribal native of the South American Rain forest. Those are about as close as one could be to our ancestors' life style and I don't see a lot of folk rushing off to take advantage of the opportunity.

Except they would probably not have recorded cancer as cancer or heart disease as heart disease. It would have been dying of old age as far as they were concerned.

As much of this is lack of exercise as it is diet. There is no reason why people in modern society can't have a healthy balanced diet including eating meat and take regular exercise and be mbuttes more likely to live a lot longer than a vegetarian ancestor if such an animal actually existed. I suspect a starving ancestor would eat anything they could get their hands on whether animal or vegetable.

And many kings who only ate meat as a status symbol had health issues too but no-one is advocating bad or poor diet, we are just saying eating meat in moderation as part of a balanced diet is not harmful. If you have a philosophical reason to be a veggie fine, but you discredit the whole thing by making extreme arguments about health. If you only drank carrot juice you would die. Its possible to have unhealthy vegetarian diets, unhealthy meat only diets and unhealthy combination diets.

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