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Diet

I don't believe that not eating any animal product goes against our nature, but it likely isn't that sensible to cut off this type of food completely.

I understand the idea behind veganism and agree that humans as a specie are the most messed up and horrible killers on Earth (videos of pigs boiled alive, dismembered alive and freely tortured are really easy to find on Youtube). However, we haven't evolved only eating plants, we ate whatever was at our disposal. I also highly doubt that plant-based food can completely replace animal products in our diet as the implications of the food we eat likely goes way further than just the intake of calories or amino acids. Additionally, industrial vegan products are way more processed than their traditional counterparts (although it is possible to live without them). I have nothing to say to humans living in tribes and eating almost exclusively plants (they do exist). But personally, being completely disconnected from any kind of "natural" environment, I would never attempt to replicate such a diet, as they likely eat completely different foods than those available to us. Animals and the products derived from them are a reliable way to get the necessary nutrients. Extra points given to wild animals, which ate tons, tons of more diversified food that the ones raised by us humans. Although I must say that I believe we eat way, way too much meat, which is also a huge problem in itself. Once I get the financial stability, I would like to restrict the meat I buy to quality game instead of raised beef/chicken/etc. Because compared to the life that the latter ones lived, your average deer probably lived a way more fulfilling life and died quicker, instead of being brought to a complex that has the sent of stress, pain, torture and death.

The carnivore diet is the polar opposite of veganism, and I believe it to have the same issues. We have simply never evolved as carnivorous animals. Some tribes in the north traditionally eat almost exclusiverly meat but this isn't something you can hope to replicate with no downsides, unless you go there and live the same lifestyle as them. Carnivorous people say that it isn't for nothing that our bodies naturally crave meat, and I agree. But never in the existence of humanity has meat been so omnipresent. Following our instincts that were forged in a time where meat had to be hunted is then completely insane. We still instinctively think that meat is something precious and a treat one musn't pass on, but we never had the need to develop an instinct that tells us not to eat too much of the food we crave. Just like the idea that we will never know all the benefits that our bodies can retrieve from meat, we will in the same way never know how crucial plants are to us. This craving instinct is important, sure, but wasn't made to help us in the environment most of us now live in. To obey to it with no regards to how the world evolved is being ignorant. Before, lazy people were the ones selected to live on. Now, They are the ones living shorter lives. This same logic applies to eating meat.