Given that I’m typing this in a climate-controlled room on a computer that is connected to the internet, I would say that natural/unnatural has lost relevancy to modern lifestyles.
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Veganism is unnatural because we’re all omnivores, and evolved eating both plants and animals.
Impregnating cows this way is also unnatural.
Both can be true.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
moonburster@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’ve found the rare rational person on this thread. Run before it taints your soul!
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
we’re all omnivores
Except, you know, the vegans.
snooggums@piefed.world 23 hours ago
They are still omnivores who choose to limit their diet. Acknowledging that is a choice gives it meaning, which would be lost if it was treated as something similar to being an herbivore.
I am not personally a vegan or vegetarian, but respect the choice to limit one’s diet for the purpose of limiting animal suffering.
0x0@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
being an herbivore.
That’s in Japan.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that’s a choice by an individual. doesn’t change how their body behaves due to millions of years of evolution.
ironically, the thing that gave them the ability to make the choice to be vegan is the thing they are rebelling against. high volumes of protein, specifically those from consuming the brains and muscle of prey, allowed the species to grow larger and more complex brains.
in a few million years vegans are going to be too stupid to make the choice for themselves and will return to consuming meat because they’re omnivorous.
shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
By your logic, obligate carnivores would have the larger brains. Humans are obligate omnivores. Studies show no significant differences in cognitive function, cardiovascular risk, or bone health when vegan diets meet recommended dietary allowance levels. Animal protein contributed during the evolution of the human brain, but the development was driven by cooking
falcunculus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
It’s interesting how you seem to believe your stance is based on science and facts yet you conducted no research to find out what vegans actually eat. Else you’d have found out vegans do typically eat a lot of protein and generally have healthier diets than the general public.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 hours ago
in a few million years vegans are going to be too stupid to make the choice for themselves and will return to consuming meat because they’re omnivorous.
You need to go back in time and eat more meat so you can be smart enough to not comment stupid shit. I love the idea that millions of years of eating a vegan diet humanity wouldn’t evolve to adapt better to the vegan diet. It’s very funny.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Vegans will NEVER have the political clout to force their way of life on everyone, and they’re mad AF about it.
0x0@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
to force their way of life on everyone
So fascism?
bearboiblake@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Vegans don’t want to force anything on anyone. What we want to do is to persuade people to change their minds. I believe wholeheartedly that veganism as a majority position is inevitable. In the past, the idea that black women would be allowed to vote was more unthinkable than majority veganism is now. History trends towards progressivism.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s not just political clout. Attempting to politically force veganism on the world would result in a war, not just votes against it.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
People won’t willingly give up meat, so barring the issue being forced due to economics, the way to a vegan society is via cultured meat.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
This isn’t about veganism, no?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Uh, the guy in your link wasn’t fucking around though, he got lynched by an angry mob but did nothing wrong.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Not only that, but also vegan died is literally making people crazy (or crazy people are more often on vegan diet, dealer’s choice).
Source: www.tandfonline.com/doi/…/10408398.2020.1741505#a…
The majority of studies, and especially the higher quality studies, showed that those who avoided meat consumption had significantly higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, and/or self-harm behaviors. There was mixed evidence for temporal relations, but study designs and a lack of rigor precluded inferences of causal relations. Our study does not support meat avoidance as a strategy to benefit psychological health.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 8 hours ago
vegan diet is literally making people crazy
Wrong.
(or crazy people are more often on vegan diet, dealer’s choice).
Mmm, no, there is a right answer and it’s this one. Well, it’s this one with more inclusive language. Like “People who have experienced more hardship with psychological consequences are more likely to avoid consumption of animal products”.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
People who have experienced more hardship
Doesn’t match the data. Study and raw data say nothing about the hardships.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 8 hours ago
This fella doesn’t know mental illnesses are caused by hardship and trauma
lemonwood@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
This study was funded in part via an unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
This is a metastudy not an original study though?
(And this is a shitpost community)
lemonwood@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
It means this metastudy is less of a study and more of an advertisement. The outcome of a metastudy depends even more on who does it, especially if they make up the criteria for which research is “good” enough to include.
redundancy@lemmy.org 17 hours ago
I think people on the left as whole would be more prone to depression and anxiety too. People who care about the world are generally more concious, more self-aware and critical, which turn into more worrying and at the extreme, anxiety.
bitflip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I mean, the part you cited already mentioned it but later in the study its stated even more clearly:
Across all studies, there was no evidence to support a causal relation between the consumption or avoidance of meat and any psychological outcomes.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
A sentence later it says
These authors posited that mental disorders may lead to the adoption of a meat-less diet. The authors stated that individuals with mental disorders may “choose a vegetarian diet as a form of safety or self-protective behavior”
And I wrote
or crazy people are more often on vegan diet, dealer’s choice
bearboiblake@pawb.social 11 hours ago
You wrote
vegan diet is literally making people crazy
You were wrong about that, just walk it back dude, it’s not a big deal, it’s okay to be wrong about things.
Also, people with anxiety and depression aren’t widely considered to be “crazy”.
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Our monkey ancestors were more vegan than meat eater.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Today, most people are “more vegan” than meat eater, too, as in they eat more grains and vegetables than meat. If that’s what you meant.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Not if rfk and the beef lobby have anything to say about that
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Don’t worry, they don’t
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
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 their 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?
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You may already be a 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]^^”^
hector@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 hours 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 a cannibal or find that talking cow from the Douglas Adams books.
hector@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
And I’m sorry but why add the fucking picture I don’t get how that is applicable to anything
wavebeam@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The picture is of “the vegan police” from Scott pilgrim vs the world (2010)
hector@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
In prehistory the are not eating dairy, but may eat dead animals, insects, shellfish, etc.
So not all vegan, but moreso than not.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
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
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
“outside insects and scavenging”
So, scavenger and omnivore… never vegan
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Pandas would like to have a word wich yu
arrow74@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
There’s no evidence to support that. Best evidence is that our ancestors for the longest time were likely opportunistic omnivores. Plants of course were a large part of the diet, but looking back to about 3.9 mya meat was on the menu.
hector@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
They overwhelmingly ate more plants than meat we can safely presume. Meat they could get would be mostly insects, and an already dead or sick animals. Later when they came out of the trees shellfish.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Yes scavenging for meat is generally considered a very important part of human evolution. Our stomachs are particularly acidic when compared to other great apes. This is believed to have evolved due to a high consumption of scavenged meats.
You are right though plants generally did form a large portion of our and our ancestors diets.
Important to note that as our brain size increased it did correlate with increased meat consumption as well. This all goes into calorie densities, available nutrients, and evolutionary pressures.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Impregnating cows this way is also unnatural.
Definitely. Aren’t their hands in the anus?
altphoto@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
A guy reading a Bible on one hand with his hand a foot deep into a cow’s behind…they let you do it if you’re famous said the lord.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A guy reading a Bible on one hand with his hand a foot deep into a cow’s behind
…you…you do know that’s not how insemination works…right?
if they’re in it’s behind, that’s an impacted colon and they are likely trying to clear it.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
Fun fact, we evolved to eat raw meat, that’s why we have an appendix. Then, when we stopped eating raw meat, we started to evolve away from the appendix.
Evolutionary arguments don’t support the naturalist fallacy, because evolution doesn’t work like that. It responds to environmental pressures. It’s not some guiding light for what we’re “meant” to be doing, it’s the tools we’ve got to support what we already did.
Caffie@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This article says it was for raw vegetables:
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
That is not proven though, the appendix part, that’s the explanation I like the best as well. Other explanations, I forget, the aliens had it for some shit we don’t even know about, oh yeah, the more likely non joke one, and it could be what you say and this both many organs do multiple things, is to provide a reservoir of gut bacteria, to repopulate the gut after the system is flushed. That would go right along with digesting raw meat, as using independent bacteria is large part of the human body we’ve come to learn.
I forget what the other theories are, but there are others for the appendix, I believe the raw meat and reservoir of bacteria both though is most likely.
raid_dad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
While still technically a theory, the appendix acting as a reservoir for healthy gut bacteria has largely been proven. That function could very well have helped with digestion of raw meat as well, especially if eating raw meats caused issues with diarrhea.
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CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s probably got more to do with eating less rotten meat than eating less raw meat. It has functions for the immune system it is like the surveillance system for what is being introduced to the body.