#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
It feels like we need to stop them... but we can't stop them. They're going to go ahead and create all this stuff regardless of what any of us want, or the consequences. They're just going to keep building it because ... someone is paying them to. That's why. Unfortunately, even if we knew who and why exactly, it still wouldn't really help us unless we are really willing to take determined action. And since most people are not willing to do so, we will simply go along for the ride until one day we're all wondering "WTF happened to our once-pretty-nice world?" If you don't take action, if you don't speak out, if you just sit there and say 'well, I guess it's ok"... then they will keep going, and going, and going ... and later I am guessing some people will remember that there was a time when it could have been stopped... but no one did anything. So far.
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