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"Being vegan is unnatural" (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[+] -6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

that's like comparing us to the primordial plankton that use to eat microbes.

it's just really stupid.

let's ignore 25 million years of evolution.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Evolution is on a long scale, we have a lot longer as vegans than we do eating any meat to speak of outside insects and scavenging. Only a blink of an eye hunting our own meat to a large extent, a small fraction of a million years, compared to millions, and tens of millions, vegan ish.

    Longer when you include like passive meat eating, like shellfish, which is what people were thought to be following as they colonized the middle east and asia.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "outside insects and scavenging"

    So, scavenger and omnivore... never vegan

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    if your argument is that we were herbivores longer than omnivores I've got some news for you. we ate planktons for alot longer than plants, mostly because plants didn't even exist for millions of years.

    so by your logic we should be eating phytoplanktons instead of plants and animals.

    you can't just dismiss millions of years of evolution on a whim based entirely on an emotional reaction.

    be vegan all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that you are an omnivore.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Not millions though, tens of thousands eating meat, millions eating mostly vegan. I'm not a vegan btw don't have a dog in this fight.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    We, humans, have only existed for around 200,000 years, you are referring to multiple different species that are explicitly not Homo Sapiens Sapiens that all had different organic needs and requirements than what we require. This stance really does not hold any kind of scientific relevance to the human diet. We are inarguably evolved, as humans, to be omnivores, and arguably obligate omnivores if you’re trying to be scientific about it.

    Veganism is a choice based on modern subjective morality, there is no objective or scientific explanation or reason for humans to be vegan. It’s a choice, plain and simple, and it does not make you better or worse than anyone else.

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