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Ridgerunner
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Perhaps, but maybe they only eat too much fat. A lot of meat is too fat nowadays. When it comes to beef, I eat only grass-fed, which I raise myself. It’s fat content is different in both quantity and in the nature of it. Aussies prefer grass fed too.
Julius Caesar remarked on the health, stature and vigor of the Teutons. He credited it to the fact that their diets consisted almost entirely of meat. He noted that almost none of them grew any kind of crops at all. Perhaps he was wrong about their stature, them being Germans and all, but were they really healthy and vigorous as compared to the largely grain-eating Romans? Perhaps he was wrong, but he spent a lot of time with them, and perhaps he was right. He also remarked that the Gauls lived almost entirely on their cattle and were likewise vigorous and healthy, though he believed the Teutons were bigger.
People vary in this world. Indo-Europeans are the only people on earth, the great majority of whom retain lactose tolerance into adulthood. Why is that? Well, likely it’s because for millenia Indo-Europeans were herders on the Eurasian grasslands. They had virtually no food sources but meat and milk. Undoubtedly, they acquired that lactose tolerance because those without it did not survive to pass on their lactose-intolerant genes.
So, since Indo-Europeans spent far more time as herders, historically, than they did as farmers, can anyone truly assert with confidence that they cannot well tolerate meat just as they can milk? If other peoples in the world are more vegetarian (and few are, entirely) than others, does that prove anything other than that their resources, and perhaps even their genetic predispositions are different?
And how many vegetables do Eskimos ever get? For millenia uncounted, they have eaten almost nothing but meat and fish. And yet, they lived. Do they do as well on imported grain products now? Some claim that they do not.
I do not have an argument with vegetarians or vegans. They can eat what they want. I do worry about their children somewhat, since (I am assured by a physician) it is not entirely uncommon for their children to need treatment for nutritional deficiencies. But I will also grant that probably a vegan could, by studying it carefully, learn how to provide a proper diet for a child. Vegetarians, though, would have an easier time of it, I would think, since they do allow milk and eggs into their diets and those of their children.
