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We started off eating fruit like forest primates but had to adapt to eat anything available when our natural habitat started to decline and the rainforests gave way to grassy plains. It was the key to our survival where other species would have perished as their environment changed.
The changes drove our evolution as better intelligence was necessary to deal with learning to scrounge for food in environments not abundant with fruit, we to some extent owe our amazingly developmed minds and society to the fact we had to learn to hunt and categorise animals/plants

But quite, there is no reason why we need to eat meat anymore what with modern agriculture. Also it wont be sustainable in the future if the population continues to grow as eating meat is 10% as efficient as eating vegetables grown on the same land, we will only be able to justify eating animals that only grow on hilly areas not suitable for crops, eg sheep farming in mountainous areas.

Personally, I LOVE meat and have no moral qualms about eating it. Yet. However I think for the sake of environmentalism and my waistline I may go veggie one day. Also my Hare Krisna friends dont approve much and like you I am getting more and more hippy in my old age ;P

ps did you know that if we found a medicine to prolong our life we’d have to be veggie anyway? Apparently there are too many heavy metals in meat and it slowly damages you over your life. It doesnt really ‘get you’ before old age but if we could live indefinitely we’d have to be veggie pretty much

It’s something I read somewhere but I cant remember for the life of me where. I think it’s namely with red meats, they are very high in iron and stuff and they can build up or something.

A quick google search provides some information on the subject, albeit from an obvious veggie promoter

The real reason why processed meats are so dangerous to your health

Bioaccumulation is cited here as the issue, ie a cow eats tons and tons of vegetable matter, all the nasties he eats builds up in his flesh.

This isnt just veggie paranoia it’s well studied in nature, take for example a bug that eats pesticide covered crops. A rodent eats hundreds of these bugs as part of its diet. A bird of prey eats hundreds of these rodents as part of its diet. The result is the bird of prey has tens of thousands of times the concentration of the pesticide in it’s system than the bug did.
Bioaccumulation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As top of the food chain we need to be aware of this shizzle

Meat and 2 veg plz! :love:

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i love seafood, but not eaten any of that in a while either. im not gonna label myself as any one thing, but am starting to think that eating dead things isnt the way forward.

also would have thought that the whole bio accumulation thing could be a lot worse in seafood, seeing as stuff like chemicals and pesticides etc all pretty much get washed down into the sea in one way or another..

but for me its basically the killing of other things in order to survive that has started to seem a bit wrong…

I think if I look into it too much I’d have to become vegan – as the milk trade is horrific to the animals, etc
I mainly dont eat meat as I dont like it – if I was to ever try meat again I’d only eat ‘happy meat’ and as this is expensive I guess it’d be a rare occasion

but I like fish- and i think if I didnt eat fish I’d not get enough of whatever (I take vitamins and minerals etc ) but I dont have fish too often, one as I cant afford it regular regular, but i also heard there can be lots of metals in it –
my sister (who reads hello :laugh_at:) was telling me about Rod stewarts wife who ate loads of fish and “Miss Lancaster, 39, said she had cut fish out of her diet after doctors discovered very high levels of mercury in her body. She then became pregnant on her third round of IVF.”

The animals we eat are of the highest population species on the planet cos we breed them. if the meaning of life is reproduction then us eating meat is a win in a way. i think there is more chickens on the planet than humans cos of our love for their flesh.

The way a lot of these animals are treated is immoral for sure though.

also i agree with where Iacchus was going, veg is life to. Annoys me that murdering spiders is socially acceptable but to a dog or cat is seen as sick.