"Being vegan is unnatural"

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55430539

Veganism is unnatural because we’re all omnivores, and evolved eating both plants and animals.

Impregnating cows this way is also unnatural.

Both can be true.

Our monkey ancestors were more vegan than meat eater.

More vegan.

What a curious phrase. Not just for the substitution of vegetarian for vegan, but for the use of “more”. More vegan. I thought it was binary. Are their partial vegans? I thought that wasn’t allowed.

Because my diet includes more calories and nutrition from plant matter than meat most days, am I more vegan now?

In prehistory the are not eating dairy, but may eat dead animals, insects, shellfish, etc.

So not all vegan, but moreso than not.

Humans evolved to proccess dairy, not once, not twice, but 3 times. Some studies even suggest up to 5 times.

Seems like it was definitely advantageous to consume dairy

Outside of mother’s milk our ape ancestors weren’t getting any dairy though. Maybe the last 10k, even longer, years. Not the last 100k, to say nothing of the last 10 million.

You are right it is a newer adaptation, but one that was clearly advantageous to our species. There are not many evolutionary changes that occurred independently in 3-5 different populations.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3048992/#%3A~%3A….

Lactase persistence - Wikipedia

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