leaning towards elimination of meat

[Ali Quadir]

Can you imagine killing a deer with your teeth? It's simply not going to work. We are not designed to be predators... Our canines are pathetic our speed is poor, and our strength just cannot do it.

Quite right! Of course we do have something that is even more dangerous than teeth. A big noodle. No, not that noodle...

Yes, but how did we survive until we started fighting these meatballs with the pasta you're talking about?

I think scientists suggest that originally we survived by hanging out in trees and by communicating a lot creating a net of communication with many eyes and relative safety. That eventually allowed language and conceptual skills to evolve. At that time we did not eat large prey, we ate mostly vegetables and fruits, and we had insects and snails when we found them... This is the diet we evolved on and it still is excellent for humans. Mammoths were a very recent affair. The whole heart and vascular disease problem we have in the rich world is to a large part caused by our meat rich diet.

The ultimate predators in this world are on the whole quite dumb. Different things are important to them. The cat is a great example. Fast, stealthy, agile, elegant.... mad as a hatter. The smart guys of the animal world are the organized gangs. Pigs are smart creatures. But so are rats and other rodents. Monkeys pigs and rodents of course had a common ancestor. It wasn't a predator. We were probably much like lemurs



Lemurs are badasses.

As soon as we figured out how to use tools to kill big game a few of us specialized in it and added a good addition to our diets. Great in fact they didn't grow as old as we do, so they probably didn't have the same side effects. And it was probably the reason we could afford to move around more freely since we could now survive in harder zones to live in. The major reason for our species success.

Those were the days my friends

I don't have an issue with eating meat. Like I said, the reason I'm a vegetarian is mostly a habit by now. If I had no other option I'd eat meat without guilt. This is a savage garden, each of us has a small chance of being eaten by an animal. This chance used to be bigger. I fully agree with the suggestion we should be conscious of the souls behind the expression. And choose consciously. The way commercialism handles all this is outrageous. But it is in essence a part of life. As far as I am concerned a personal choice.

I think anyone can do it, I can whip up a good vegetarian meal for the price of a burger.