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Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa
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Why wouldn't the evolution of diet matter? Its obvious we ate meat because plants would not have been plentiful enough and agriculture had not been developed. Maybe I am misunderstanding.
ETA : I agree on all your issues about humane treatment btw.
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We were most likely omnivores like bears, where the vast majority of our diet was some combination of fruit, nuts, grains, and foragables like eggs/honey/accessible seafood, with some smaller amount of meat. It probably varied considerably by culture and location.
It's just that what we ate 500,000 years ago has no bearing on what is
ethical to eat today. We have gained the ability to get all our nutritional needs without the brutalization of animals, we just choose not to. Whey isolate, milk, cheese, genetically engineered plants, etc.