/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>4647934
in terms of the things i just taught you as an incentive to eat meat? it doesn't exist as such (IE "yes") because we completely lack the fierce selective tool that was the high attrition rate of people associated with hunter gathering and ice ages. if theres no one to kill you and prevent you from breeding because you are dumb, theres no way it will get you (the human race) smarter. And you yourself will see no benefit

This is also one of the reasons I said you should eat whatever you want. If you dont want to eat meat, don't, if you think fruit is somehow more healthy, go for it. it honestly doesn't matter because environmentally speaking we're going to need to give up a lot more than eating animals if we expect our sustainability to do any turns, the only other way things could possibly turn around is if we came out with a breakthrough for advanced hydroponics and other growing methods that don't rely on lots of land like traditional farming. pretty much the only reason to stop eating meat right now is personal and moral, if you want sustainability, start talking to people about sterilization, not fruit.

There is the factor that epigenetics may cause some of this advice to become invalid, but it's a new field and we honestly don't really know much about how eating meat or not eating meat effects it. It's certainly an incentive not to smoke and do drugs though.