We Are Supposed to Eat Animals !

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Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had a science teacher in middle school or highschool once tell me that humans are, on a biological level, predatory in nature. Something about having both of our eyes on the front of our head or something.

I always thought it made sense. Humans evolved hunting for their food. Nowadays we get everything off of a shelf. Probably why there is so much violence and mass shootings etc, lol.

Eye orientation isn't really a valid indicator of predatory nature.

Panda bears eat nothing but fuckin plants, then you have the primates (bonobos, chimps, lemurs, gorillas) that eat like 90% plants, insects, eggs, shit that's easy to catch... fruit bats, etc

Again, what we supposedly "evolved to eat" has ZERO RELEVANCY to this discussion. It was only within the last 100 years that access to extremely good nutrition, driven largely by widespread access to protein-rich animal products (milk, eggs, meat) has contributed to a boom in height and IQ (and probably also cancer & heart disease). If we evolved to eat meat, we were doing a pretty shitty job of it up until the last century.

The important consideration is that we don't need to brutalize animals to live a healthy life. We just do it because it's efficient.