Don’t try to be Kennedy.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But if we had been eating it since before we were human, we evolved to eat it. It was selected for.

    I mean I wouldn’t want anyone to eat a lion now, but that’s a different story.

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      2 months ago

      If we can’t eat it raw then I’d argue we didn’t evolve to eat it

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        2 months ago

        Why? Hominids used fire to cook food long before Homo Sapiens evolved.

        https://www.dw.com/en/evidence-of-cooking-780000-years-ago-rewrites-human-history/a-63812031

        Edit: I think the issue a lot of people have with saying that we evolved to be able to do something means that we still have to do it. We evolved to eat meat. We can survive just fine on a plant-based diet now that we’ve domesticated the right crops, so it’s no longer necessary. There hasn’t been near enough time to evolve into herbivores, if that’s the eventual path we go on, but we can be herbivores if we choose. Which is one of the amazing things about being human- we can defy evolution.