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Hi, Im looking for friends that are doing paleo!
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I'm doing keto/bulletproof...add me if you like!0
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I am working on getting back on the Paleo bandwagon... easing back into it at this point.0
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You might want to join the Paleo/primal group here. The general forums will lead to whole lot of paleo-bashing and people telling you're stupid. Add me if you'd like.0
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Add me too :-) I'm not dogmatically paleo, but I'm entirely gluten free, normally dairy free/keto as well.0
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Primal, mostly. Also new and looking for friends, feel free to add me.0
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Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
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Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
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Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Do please enlighten me as to what out of all the reams of archaeological evidence for meat eating being critical to the evolution of the genus Homo does this person not accept?
Don't tell me to watch the videos, I don't have time for that. Just give me the cliff notes.0 -
nobody can do the hard work for you... you will have to do the research yourself...0
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nobody can do the hard work for you... you will have to do the research yourself...
that's the most BS cop-out answer I've ever heard in my life
I've studied human evolution at degree level (and also beyond that level, for fun). I want to know what YOU think. You seemed to be claiming that the idea that humans evolved eating meat is a myth. That flies in the face of all the current theories, so I want to know what YOU believe, and gauge your current knowledge of human evolution and palaeoanthropology, and know exactly which of the evidences for meat eating in early humans and late australopithecines YOU think is incorrect, and why, and what evidence you have for your alternative theory.
I can't research YOUR beliefs without asking YOU to explain them. If you're going to make claims that fly in the face of accepted science, then you need to back them up. And no I'm not going to watch hundreds of videos which are almost certainly pure pseudoscience and vegan propaganda. All peer reviewed journal articles have an abstract giving a brief summary of the findings, so other researchers can get the gyst of the study without wading through the whole thing. I'd doubt the ability and the motives of anyone claiming to be a scientist who can't write an abstract for their research.
ETA: of course, if you can't do that then I'm just going to carry on believing that the current scientific theories, i.e. that meat eating was essential for the evolution of the genus Homo. If you want people to consider the validity of your alternative theories, you have to be able to explain them and provide evidence for them. That's what scientific research papers are for.0 -
the ideas are cogently stated and fully referenced in the link provided... there is no need to rewrite them here... i would recommend you use that utilize your time and your degree level studies effectively by looking at the links rather than attempt to intimidate people in MFP forums... There are more scientific research presented and analyzed to keep you well busy fact checking for quite some time.
It is more important that the OP have a proper basis to make a decision rather than listen to two dopes argue about beliefs in this forum. Besides, if you are so research oriented, why do you even care to put forth beliefs? Stick to the science.
It is quite a useful resource for the OP, and the info/analysis provided in the series should enable OP to make an informed decision as to what diet to pursue, an objective which more closely matches the original purpose of this string....0 -
the ideas are cogently stated and fully referenced in the link provided... there is no need to rewrite them here... i would recommend you use that utilize your time and your degree level studies effectively by looking at the links rather than looking to intimidate people in MFP... There are more scientific research presented and analyzed to keep you well busy fact checking for quite some time.
lol intimidating.... sorry that you find me intimidating. I'll tell my avatar to put down the spear she's holding. You don't have to be afraid of her, she doesn't like human flesh that much anyway. She much prefers woolly rhino.
You haven't given me a good reason to read those articles, so I won't. I don't believe that current theories about meat eating in early humans are incorrect. However you seem to be on this forum to promote a particular way of eating and if it happens that what you're promoting is based on pseudoscience, then people have a right to challenge it.
ETA: scientific evidence for meat eating in early humans to follow.0 -
you are free to allocate your precious time however you wish. And the OP can look at your garishness and compare to the information provided and decide for himself, should he so chose.0
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^^THIS^^You might want to join the Paleo/primal group here. The general forums will lead to whole lot of paleo-bashing and people telling you're stupid. Add me if you'd like.
The main boards are generally only welcoming to the S.A.D. and embrace the notion of "If it fits your macros".
Threads about alternatives to the S.A.D typically get derailed.0 -
Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
QUOTE
Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
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Oh el oh el
http://www.plantpositive.com/0 -
Some evidence for early humans (and late australopithecines) eating meat:
- the earliest stone tools were made for the purpose of butchering animal carcasses, in particular for smashing up bones to obtain brains and bone marrow, which were excellent sources of fat and protein. the evidence for this is the remains of these early humans being found with stone tools and smashed up bones. the way that the bones are smashed up show that it was done with the kinds of tools found.
- this behaviour predates the origin of the genus Homo, i.e. australopithecines that slightly predate the origin of humans, yet are also the most morphologically similar to humans have similar stone tools, they are the earliest stone tool makers. Not long after, the genus Homo emerges. This strongly suggests that being able to extract brains and marrow from animal carcasses gave these proto-humans the protein, fat and calories needed to maintain a larger brain... the earliest humans were very similar to these australopithecines but had larger brains.
- there was a reduction in the size of proto-human teeth and the masseter muscle around this time as well. being able to subsist off softer foods means that it's no longer necessary to have a huge massater muscle. in apes, the large massater constrains brain size. the mutation that made this smaller - individuals with this would only have survived if they can get enough soft food to eat - thus enabled the skull expansion seen in early Homo to happen.
^^^ both these factors show that without eating meat (in particular, brains and bone marrow, not just muscle flesh) was necessary in order to evolve bigger brains. Compare this with the evolution of Australopithecus boisei, an evolutionary side branch in the hominin family tree, where they had a more gorilla-like diet (coarse vegetation and insects) and instead of evolving bigger and bigger brains, they evolved bigger and bigger teeth. Once nicknamed "nutcracker man" on account of the sheer size of their teeth and jaws. Meat eating = bigger brains. Plant eating = bigger jaws.
- throughout the evolution of humans, tools used for hunting and butchering animals have become more and more complex. Cut marks on animal bones prove that they were butchered using stone tools. The stone tools themselves show evidence in how they're used, i.e. microwear on the tool itself and also molecular evidence of what it's been in contact with. Many of them were hunting weapons (spearheads and much later on arrowheads too) or tools used to butcher animals, or prepare hides (e.g. stone scrapers for tanning hides). As mentioned earlier, stone tool use slightly predates the genus Homo and the earliest stone tools were used to butcher carcasses. Later stone tools were much more complex and used for many different purposes, but hunting and butchery were major uses for many tools.
- the robusticity of the human skull and skeleton increased steadily through the lower and middle palaeolithic era - most likely in response to hunting bigger and bigger animals. Neanderthals had injury rates and patterns similar to modern day rodeo riders, which strongly suggests that they regularly engaged in fighting with large herbivores.
- the animal bones found alongside early humans shows not only that they ate meat, but what species they ate. There is some debate in the earliest humans whether they were predominantly hunters or scavengers, but later humans were systematic hunters that regularly ate meat. Species include very large animals too, including mammoth, bison, hippo, rhino, etc.
- evidence taken from the bones, i.e. molecular analysis of them, can show the kinds of foods eaten by early humans, i.e. whether they ate plants or animals. This evidence is really interesting, for example neanderthals didn't eat fish, they got 100% of their protein from animal sources... while molecular evidence from teeth showed they also ate plant foods, which they cooked, i.e. omnovirous diet... protein from animal sources but plant foods for carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and fibre.
- Homo sapiens ate a lot more seafood... see the remains of very very early Homo sapiens people in South Africa... humans living on the seashore exploiting coastal resources, evidence that they cooked and ate seafood a lot. Also very early H. sapiens remains elsewhere in Africa showed they ate a lot of hippos.
So you see, the suggestion that humans didn't evolve to eat meat flies in the face of a huge amount of evidence to the contrary... the above is just a brief overview.
Even if you look at other primates and go further back in evolution, e.g. ape evolution, all extant species of great ape are omnivores. Gorillas eat insects; chimps and bonobos eat small mammals, including using tools to hunt them in one subspecies of chimp and co-operative hunting of small monkeys. There's a general rule in primate biology, as in the larger brained primates are omnivorous, and the herbivorous primates have smaller brains. There's only one species of carnivorous primate and that's not related to humans, it has a little evolutionary branch of its own. Humans are omnivores, just like all the other great apes (and it's only due to semantics that humans are not generally considered to be a species of great ape, because we're in that clade).0 -
Another hijacked Paleo thread.
I wish you guys would hijack threads in moderation, but you seem to be in all of them. lol
Hi I eat Primal - feel free to add me.0 -
^^THIS^^You might want to join the Paleo/primal group here. The general forums will lead to whole lot of paleo-bashing and people telling you're stupid. Add me if you'd like.
The main boards are generally only welcoming to the S.A.D. and embrace the notion of "If it fits your macros".
Threads about alternatives to the S.A.D typically get derailed.
it's not paleo people being bashed in this thread right now0 -
@neandermagnon you just like to hear yourself talk.... no references and probably cut and pasted 1000 times... lol...0
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Another hijacked Paleo thread.
I wish you guys would hijack threads in moderation, but you seem to be in all of them. lol
Hi I eat Primal - feel free to add me.
if you look a bit more carefully, you'll see that the guy I'm arguing with is claiming that paleo is wrong and that humans didn't evolve to eat meat. He's the one hijacking this thread promoting his way of eating. I haven't argued against a single paleo person on this thread.0 -
@neandermagnon you just like to hear yourself talk.... no references and probably cut and pasted 1000 times... lol...
that was quick... onto the insults already and you haven't presented a single argument in favour of your position... we're not even off the first page.0 -
lol insulting.... sorry that you find me insulting. I'll tell my avatar to put down the verbal spear he's holding. But seriously, thanks for your cogent summary. Now the OP can compare that to the info provided and make an informed decision as to which may be more correct.0
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Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
QUOTE
Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
UNQUOTE
LMFAO - I listened to the last minute of number 71 and heard to word vegan - Seriously dude pedal it somewhere else.
I do hope you are not going to be the new Rocbola!0 -
Some evidence for early humans (and late australopithecines) eating meat:
- the earliest stone tools were made for the purpose of butchering animal carcasses, in particular for smashing up bones to obtain brains and bone marrow, which were excellent sources of fat and protein. the evidence for this is the remains of these early humans being found with stone tools and smashed up bones. the way that the bones are smashed up show that it was done with the kinds of tools found.
- this behaviour predates the origin of the genus Homo, i.e. australopithecines that slightly predate the origin of humans, yet are also the most morphologically similar to humans have similar stone tools, they are the earliest stone tool makers. Not long after, the genus Homo emerges. This strongly suggests that being able to extract brains and marrow from animal carcasses gave these proto-humans the protein, fat and calories needed to maintain a larger brain... the earliest humans were very similar to these australopithecines but had larger brains.
- there was a reduction in the size of proto-human teeth and the masseter muscle around this time as well. being able to subsist off softer foods means that it's no longer necessary to have a huge massater muscle. in apes, the large massater constrains brain size. the mutation that made this smaller - individuals with this would only have survived if they can get enough soft food to eat - thus enabled the skull expansion seen in early Homo to happen.
^^^ both these factors show that without eating meat (in particular, brains and bone marrow, not just muscle flesh) was necessary in order to evolve bigger brains. Compare this with the evolution of Australopithecus boisei, an evolutionary side branch in the hominin family tree, where they had a more gorilla-like diet (coarse vegetation and insects) and instead of evolving bigger and bigger brains, they evolved bigger and bigger teeth. Once nicknamed "nutcracker man" on account of the sheer size of their teeth and jaws. Meat eating = bigger brains. Plant eating = bigger jaws.
- throughout the evolution of humans, tools used for hunting and butchering animals have become more and more complex. Cut marks on animal bones prove that they were butchered using stone tools. The stone tools themselves show evidence in how they're used, i.e. microwear on the tool itself and also molecular evidence of what it's been in contact with. Many of them were hunting weapons (spearheads and much later on arrowheads too) or tools used to butcher animals, or prepare hides (e.g. stone scrapers for tanning hides). As mentioned earlier, stone tool use slightly predates the genus Homo and the earliest stone tools were used to butcher carcasses. Later stone tools were much more complex and used for many different purposes, but hunting and butchery were major uses for many tools.
- the robusticity of the human skull and skeleton increased steadily through the lower and middle palaeolithic era - most likely in response to hunting bigger and bigger animals. Neanderthals had injury rates and patterns similar to modern day rodeo riders, which strongly suggests that they regularly engaged in fighting with large herbivores.
- the animal bones found alongside early humans shows not only that they ate meat, but what species they ate. There is some debate in the earliest humans whether they were predominantly hunters or scavengers, but later humans were systematic hunters that regularly ate meat. Species include very large animals too, including mammoth, bison, hippo, rhino, etc.
- evidence taken from the bones, i.e. molecular analysis of them, can show the kinds of foods eaten by early humans, i.e. whether they ate plants or animals. This evidence is really interesting, for example neanderthals didn't eat fish, they got 100% of their protein from animal sources... while molecular evidence from teeth showed they also ate plant foods, which they cooked, i.e. omnovirous diet... protein from animal sources but plant foods for carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and fibre.
- Homo sapiens ate a lot more seafood... see the remains of very very early Homo sapiens people in South Africa... humans living on the seashore exploiting coastal resources, evidence that they cooked and ate seafood a lot. Also very early H. sapiens remains elsewhere in Africa showed they ate a lot of hippos.
So you see, the suggestion that humans didn't evolve to eat meat flies in the face of a huge amount of evidence to the contrary... the above is just a brief overview.
Even if you look at other primates and go further back in evolution, e.g. ape evolution, all extant species of great ape are omnivores. Gorillas eat insects; chimps and bonobos eat small mammals, including using tools to hunt them in one subspecies of chimp and co-operative hunting of small monkeys. There's a general rule in primate biology, as in the larger brained primates are omnivorous, and the herbivorous primates have smaller brains. There's only one species of carnivorous primate and that's not related to humans, it has a little evolutionary branch of its own. Humans are omnivores, just like all the other great apes (and it's only due to semantics that humans are not generally considered to be a species of great ape, because we're in that clade).
From one person who actually studies this shizz to another, thank you.0 -
Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
QUOTE
Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
UNQUOTE
LMFAO - I listened to the last minute of number 71 and heard to word vegan - Seriously dude.
Glad to see that you made an effort. Cheers for that.
Rational decision making(opinion forming) requires use of rational thought process before the opinion is formed, not justification of a opinion formed in the absence of rational thought. The former may require listening to more than "last minute".0 -
And meanwhile, another paleo thread has been hijacked with arguing.
^^THIS^^You might want to join the Paleo/primal group here. The general forums will lead to whole lot of paleo-bashing and people telling you're stupid. Add me if you'd like.
The main boards are generally only welcoming to the S.A.D. and embrace the notion of "If it fits your macros".
Threads about alternatives to the S.A.D typically get derailed.
it's not paleo people being bashed in this thread right now0 -
Add me!0
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Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
QUOTE
Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
UNQUOTE
LMFAO - I listened to the last minute of number 71 and heard to word vegan - Seriously dude.
Glad to see that you made an effort. Cheers for that.
One thing I have yet to witness on these threads is meat eater hijacking vegan threads. Do please treat us with the same respect.0 -
@neandermagnon you just like to hear yourself talk.... no references and probably cut and pasted 1000 times... lol...
typed it myself, not a cut and paste at all.
no references, because I pulled it all out of my brain and I don't currently have access to scientific journals, but you can find the same info in any first year university palaeoanthropology textbook, although the stuff about tool use in early australopithecines may not be in all that many textbooks as it's a fairly recent discovery. Nothing I said is contravertial though, I just outlined some of the evidence, which is actually reams of material evidence, i.e. repeated over many, many early human archaeological sites around the world.0 -
Before you try it, perhaps you should watch all or part of a 71 part analysis of the Paleo myth. Each well referenced chapter is between approx. 4-12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCC2CA9893F2503B5 .
It is quite thorough and complete, a serious tome of information not to be overlooked. Best of luck with your decision.
QUOTE
Welcome to The Primitive Nutrition Series! Created by someone who was nearly seduced by the Paleo Diet idea before going vegan, these videos provide a wide-ranging response to the evolution-inspired rationale for meat eating which so many have uncritically accepted.
Ever wonder...
Will fruit make me fat? Unlikely. See 49.
Is grass-fed beef an environmentally responsible food? This opens 70.
Weren't the Eskimos healthy eating a completely animal-based diet? 27 answers this.
Isn't there great research supporting low-carb diets? 52 looks at some of it.
Were our Ice Age ancestors low-carbers? Probably not. 11 explains.
Should I trust the advice of the primitive diet gurus? Watch them all!
These videos are intended to be viewed in order, from 1 to 71. See them all and you will never again fall for a fad diet. It's time to move away from gimmickery and hype, and toward a healthy and sustainable future. Let's start something positive!
UNQUOTE
LMFAO - I listened to the last minute of number 71 and heard to word vegan - Seriously dude.
Glad to see that you made an effort. Cheers for that.
One thing I have yet to witness on these threads is meat eater hijacking vegan threads. Do please treat us with the same respect.
^^^ yes, this absolutely
lol tennis dude we may have our disagreements about some things but I do agree with you on a lot of things as well!0 -
And meanwhile, another paleo thread has been hijacked with arguing.
^^THIS^^You might want to join the Paleo/primal group here. The general forums will lead to whole lot of paleo-bashing and people telling you're stupid. Add me if you'd like.
The main boards are generally only welcoming to the S.A.D. and embrace the notion of "If it fits your macros".
Threads about alternatives to the S.A.D typically get derailed.
it's not paleo people being bashed in this thread right now
well the vegan guy who was saying that paleo is wrong and humans evolved to be the vegan is the one who hyjacked the thread, I was arguing with him.0
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