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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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