Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day agoMore 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?
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
And I’m sorry but why add the fucking picture I don’t get how that is applicable to anything
wavebeam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The picture is of “the vegan police” from Scott pilgrim vs the world (2010)
hector@lemmy.today 1 day 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 1 day 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
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 13 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]^^”^
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Sorry, you’re too late. I now identify as More Vegan. ;)