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Quote by: pikatore  We are limited as civilisations and as people by our biology. And our biological systems are best suited to what they've EVOLVED to suit. That seems to be the one key factor you are appearing to dismiss as unimportant. |
No. We are limited as civilizations and as people by our intelligence and what that creates. In this modern civilization we can easily create a diet for optimal health and are therefore not limited. That ais the one key factor you are appearing to dismiss as unimportant.
Our biology does not suffer in this modern world from a diet without meat. The majority of those eating meat in the most modern society on Earth, The U.S., are obese and suffer from obesity related diseases -- and that trend is growing to epidemic proportions. Their obesity is placing some real limits on their life-span and quality of life.
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A BALANCED, VARIED diet is a healthy diet. And it looks like meat comes in right into the equation.
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Yes, it can. I have never said it couldn't. But look at the trend of the health of the average citizen meat eater and their obesity. Vegetarians in general do not have the many health risks that are commonly associated with meat eaters. This is the reality of the present and trends.
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A vegetarian diet LACKS in certain nutrients that our body needs, and our cells waste energy by having to synthesise these nutrients through metabolic pathways that are only precautionary.
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A modern vegetarian diet is optimal for health and offers some health benefits over a meat eating diet. Have you seen the American Dietiticans Association's position paper on Vegetarianism? They are the largest association of nutritionists in the world with thousands of members with scientific studies, backgrounds, and thousands of hours of study and research between them. Their paper is footnoted with nearly a 100 references to studies conducted by the American Heart Association, The National Institute of Health, The American Cancer Society, etc... to name but a few, and whose research papers have been published in a number of well respected peer reviewed journals.
Perhaps you can find a paper as well and deeply footnoted and researched as theirs, by a reputed association of scientists and nutritionist specialists saying the opposite of what they assert or what you profess about meat eating versus vegetarianism. Well? Can you?