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[–] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

More vegan.

What a curious phrase. Not just for the substitution of vegetarian for vegan, but for the use of "more". More vegan. I thought it was binary. Are there partial vegans? I thought that wasn't allowed.

Because my diet includes more calories and nutrition from plant matter than meat most days, am I more vegan now?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You may already be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarianism           

    "International research explains that flexitarianism is used as a broader term to describe partial reductions in meat consumption without fixed requirements.^[7]^^"^

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Its more fun to highlight that veganism is about ethics so its not dietary its about ethical consumption of animal products. Which humans are animals.

    And you could be a carnivore vegan - all you'd have to do is find volunteer meat to eat, so you'd need to be a cannibal or find that talking cow from the Douglas Adams books.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    And I'm sorry but why add the fucking picture I don't get how that is applicable to anything

    I was going to add a picture of Epstein and his super pals from a mural in sydney but I don't even see how to do that.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    In prehistory the are not eating dairy, but may eat dead animals, insects, shellfish, etc.

    So not all vegan, but moreso than not.

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

    Humans evolved to proccess dairy, not once, not twice, but 3 times. Some studies even suggest up to 5 times.

    Seems like it was definitely advantageous to consume dairy

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

    Outside of mother's milk our ape ancestors weren't getting any dairy though. Maybe the last 10k, even longer, years. Not the last 100k, to say nothing of the last 10 million.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You are right it is a newer adaptation, but one that was clearly advantageous to our species. There are not many evolutionary changes that occurred independently in 3-5 different populations.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3048992/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Lactase+is+the+enzyme+responsible%2Ctrait+known+as+lactase+persistence.

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