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Myth: Humans Evolved as Vegetarians
- From Weston A Price Foundation
By Weston A. Price Foundation - for Wise Traditions
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We evolved to a point where we can choose. We're not ruled by instint.
Our ancestors also did many things we would no longer do: slavery, incest, forced marriage... Just because we did something in the past doesn't mean we should continue to do it.
We are still evolving. It doesn't stop. And now, given
a) the current climate change crisis
b) the health risks to humans posed by intensive animal agriculture
c) the inherent cruelty involved in intensive animal agriculture
d) our higher, more developed morality
e) our ability to choose veganism and remain healthy
all add up to one conclusion:
Go vegan!
Need help? Here are some resources for new vegans:
http://www.goveg.com /
http://www.tryveg.com /
- ElaineVigneault
October 8, 2008 10:52AM
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Denying Evolution
Whenever a person, group or culture radically breaks from its genetic dietary heritage, the forces of evolution will start to eliminate the least strong within them. This concept can be seen as recently as the coming of the European to America. The native Americans here subsisted on very lean game, legumes, various plants like gourds and types of squash etc. Today their "heritage diet " although technically still available is not convenient and their migration to the diet readily available has caused untold misery in obesity and Diabetes.
We will see the same in China as the hamburger joints proliferate.
Eventually a variant strain of human would be produced but to think that in one or two generations a person can "improve" their health by abandoning the thousands of years of dietary heritage that allowed their strain of human stock to evolve as a stable being. Violate this and your body will not perform optimally.
- EO9835 November 12, 2009 8:04AM
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