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Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by Ensorceled on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:01AM (#24578177)
I routinely encounter people who believe it is not possible to live healthily as vegetarians. I hired a developer who was a Hindu a couple of years back and half my team could not believe that he had never eaten meat, in part because he was very active and healthy.
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Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:18AM (#24578325)
Yeah, I can also confirm this. I live in the midwest, so I've encountered these people more than a few times. Even on HN you'll see a lot of people arguing that vegetarianism is actively unhealthy if not downright unsurvivable without supplements.
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Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by zucked on Thursday September 24, 2020 @10:33AM (#24578957)
The answer is somewhere in the middle, is it not? I am in the camp that we've over indexed on meat products in the weest(we eat too much of it) but I also believe that knife cuts both ways.

Humans evolved eating meat - just a whole lot less of it than we do today. It was a luxury, something you got once in a while, when an animal could be caught. I believe if we all went back to this intake level (90% vegetarian) we, and the planet, would be better off.

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Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by nradov on Thursday September 24, 2020 @10:46AM (#24579089)
On average ancient hunter-gatherers got about 30% of their calories from meat. But it varied widely by location. People living in colder areas ate more meat because there often weren't any edible plants to be found.
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