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Clarification: HOW YOU CAN HELP stop fishing?
Wilson Woods wrote:
Brian Smith wrote: Humans have NOT 'evolved to eat meat'. It's NOT good for you! Patently FALSE; in fact, a lie. Humans ARE biologically and anatomically adapted to eating some meat, and meat in reasonable quantities is VERY good for you. No academically credentialed anthropologist or biologist believes that humans aren't evolved as meat eaters, and very few doctors believe that humans shouldn't eat meat at all for good health. Yours is a distinctly minority position based on religious faith and politics rather than science. YOU CAN'T DO SCIENCE. Exactly as I said, humans evolved to eat meat, and we have teeth designed for eating meat! Our teeth are well adapted - I don't believe in "design" in this manner - for eating a wide range of foods. In fact, our teeth and the rest of our anatomy are *not* well adapted to eating large quantities of meat, There should have been extra emphasis: our teeth and the rest of our anatomy are *not* well adapted to eating ***large*** quantities of meat... Our teeth and anatomy are very well adapted to eating moderate quantities of meat. In general, people shouldn't be eating 20 ounce porterhouse steaks; that just isn't healthful. People SHOULD be eating 4-6 ounce filets, pork chops, chicken breasts, fish steaks, etc. - along with cereal grains, fresh green vegetables, beans and other legumes, and fresh fruit, meat/poultry/fish servings in that range are very healthful indeed. especially the raw meat that would have been consumed at the time of the appearance of the homo genus. As you note, though, moderate portions of meat are extremely beneficial to human health. Very few people in medicine dispute this, and those who do are going against their medical training in order to make a polemical point. These newsgroups are not supposed to be about discussion of the anatomy of humans or the nutritional value of meat. They're supposed to be concerned with the (alleged) ethical issues concerning human use of animals. The idiot Lesley can't discuss that, though, so for some bizarre reason she veers off into discussion of other stuff she ALSO doesn't know, specifically science. It's a weird sort of piling-on, isn't it? Sort of: "...and *another* thing: meat is bad for you!" Well, she's wrong - small portions of meat are good for you - and it isn't "another" thing, because she in particular has never established any FIRST thing, i.e. that human use of animals is wrong. Eating it in small quantities is beneficial, particularly to the immune system. Like you said, vegetarian/vegans base there opinions on religious/political beliefs. What annoys me is that they condemn and put pressure on, others who do not share their opinion! That's because they are totalitarian in their thinking. Fortunately for the rest of us, they are impotent, ineffectual little crybabies, too, so they seldom act on their totalitarian impulses. |
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