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Originally Posted by Riloux Gartier
Technically meat eating isn't natural. The only reason humans began to eat meat in the first place is out of desperation. We originated in areas that were optimal for growing vegetables.
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When a meat diet has been a tremendously important part of our evolutionary history with consequences for our whole biology which includes stuff like brain size and the shape of our bodies, how can you say it's unnatural? And you say we come from places "optimal for growing vegetables". Meat in our diet happened a long,
long time before agriculture. It's a matter of a diet change measurable in millions of years ago (meat eating) compared to something that first happened some thousands of years ago (agriculture).
Vegetarianism was not an option for the average healthy human not long ago. In most places on our planet, such a diet would lack essential nutrients. Being a vegetarian is feasible in modern societies today because you can have vegetables grown on every continent on your plate to fulfill your nutritional needs. Needless to say, it's not long ago that most couldn't. In Norway (where I'm from), that would've been a real problem up until not very long ago at all, probably easily measurable by decades.
I think you should reconsider what you think of as natural or not.
