Findings on ancient animal bones seem to prove meat eating not to be the recently acquired bad habit that some vegan ideologues have constructed it to be:

www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,...

In other words, some species of human ancestor — likely Australopithecus  afarensis, whose best known representative is 3.2-million-year-old  Lucy, the authors say — not only had a hankering for meat, which  scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.

Admittedly not exactly a hot news item, but it could pour oil on the vegan fire :-)

Solfeggio, what's your take on this?

Aug 12, 2010 -- 2:35AM, CharikIeia wrote:

Admittedly not exactly a hot news item, but it could pour oil on the vegan fire :-)

Actually, I don't think this will pour any oil on any vegan fire. Solfeggio can correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as if many vegans and animal rights activists argue that humans, in their "primitive" pasts, have relied on meat and other animal products for survival. This includes the complex buffalo culture of the North American Plains, as well as Neolithic Europeans who gave their babies and children non-human milk to consume. Though as a result of our advanced technologies, from agriculture to transportation to plastics manufacturing, human beings today no longer need to use animal skins for clothing and for shelter, or animal bones to make bowls and spoons and knife handles, nor do they need to rely upon meat, eggs, and milk for their dietary needs.

 People today -- the majority of whom live in urban areas -- can go to the store and buy dishes and silverware made out of plastic and steel; they can buy beverages in glass, plastic, and aluminum containers; they can buy not only fresh fruits and vegetables even in the winter months, but also canned fruits and vegetables; they can buy clothing made from cotton and polyester; they can buy plastic belts rather than leather belts; they can even buy Boca burgers for those who still have the carnivorous taste for meat. This seems to be the argument -- we no longer live in conditions that would force us for the sake of survival to go out and shoot a deer with a bow and arrow, or club a rabbit with a rock, or even raise chickens and cows and pigs on little farms out in the middle of nowhere.

Nonetheless, the only thing that has reversed heart disease is either a no or low meat diet.  

You mean like

-Anthropological evidence

- Biology

- Fact that WORLDWIDE just about every society - modern or primitive - is OMNIVOROUS 

Seems to me the one's stretching are the Vegangelists...