Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by maw on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:29PM
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My 2¢: in however many decades from now, we'll be about equally horrified by animal cruelty and by all the grain we used to eat.
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Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by VoodooJuJu on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:38PM
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If you're not eating meat and you're not eating grain, where are you getting all of your energy from?
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by maw on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:45PM
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My hope is that various forms of artificial meat become viable and generally affordable.
I think this is realistic, in spite of the opposition we can expect from both Big Ag and Big Fake Yoga.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by m000 on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:53PM
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Searched for "Big Fake Yoga" on DuckDuckGo. Was not disappointed.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by rusk on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:00PM
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Big Fake Yoga?!??
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by mft_ on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:41PM
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Legumes, vegetables, and fruit?
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by 1experience on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:59PM
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Legumes to me are healthy, but i can't see them as 100% peak human food, you have to soak them for hours and many people get bloated, then there are also certain amounts of anti-nutrients.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by edgyquant on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:34PM
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I’m expecting truly engineered food to be a breakthrough over the next 100 years. Imagine people being able to eat something akin to a chocolate bar that has all the nutrients one would expect from a full meal. Protein shakes are close to this, but they are still just a mix of vegetables mostly (and the ones I drink have high sodium.) I know everyone is expecting lab grown meat, and I’m sure there will be some of that, but I think we aren’t thinking about the possibilities and it could be people in 300 years eat textures and flavors far better than anything we can imagine, while being as healthy as physically possible.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by mkoubaa on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:55PM
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Add to this list:
1. We allowed KIDS to use social media all day?? 2. We allowed the climate & oceans to get this bad??
Hard to predict the list of things our descendants will not approve of but looking backwards there's a huge list for our ancestors
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by bluGill on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:59PM
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Those are religious issues, and there is no objective standard to what we will be horrified by. The only safe bet is that humans will be different in different cultures, and thus different people will find different things bad.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by Daho0n on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:52PM
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Being horrified by cruelty against animals has nothing to do with religion. It's ethics.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by bluGill on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:50PM
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Ethics is a religion as well. Philosophy has failed to find any universal truth.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by ddorian43 on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:34PM
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Doubt being "horrified" on the animal cruelty. We're pretty good to dehumanize other animals except pets I believe.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by dyingkneepad on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:43PM
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People weren't horrified about cruelty against slaves not so long ago, and look at where we are now. I bet most people of that era would not believe we'd ever reach the point we got now. I bet many would even be willing to die on wars for over their now-completely-unacceptable ethic standards.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by bluGill on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:01PM
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Actually they were. Peers of the Spartans were horrified about how bad they treated their slaves - even though they themselves owned slaves.
Re:For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
by Daho0n on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:57PM
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That is a pretty bad example as what we have today is not much better, it's just hidden in poor countries. "Being horrified" is something most say they are and then they go buy clothes made by people living a life as bad as slaves used to.