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Re:Beyond Meat CEO 'It's Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based... by KPGv2 on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:16AM (#47409893)
> There's reason to believe our bodies may be more adapted to eating natural or traditional foods, having eaten them for hundreds of thousands of years rather than one or two generations.

This is an argument that no white people should be eating pineapples, mangos, bananas, kiwifruit, etc. Hell, probably not even apples.

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Re:Beyond Meat CEO 'It's Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based... by auggierose on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:19AM (#47410289)
They will be fine, white people have, as everybody, African ancestors.
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Re:Beyond Meat CEO 'It's Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based... by KPGv2 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:51PM (#47434300)
I'm responding to someone alleging dietary adaptation/evolution over the course of a few thousand years.

White people's African ancestors are over 50,000 years ago.

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Re:Beyond Meat CEO 'It's Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based... by lithocarpus on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @01:32PM (#47415740)
No it is not.

Different kinds of fruits from around the world may well have more in common with each other than categorically new synthetic compounds which are found in processed food.

Pretty much all people ate real foods - plants, animals, and fungus, and ferments of these, all over the world. There are categorical chemical differences between this stuff and much modern food.

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