#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...
When I read things like this it prompts the thought - who am I? People talk of mind, body and soul and imagine one without the other. Who knows others may be right - stephen hawking perhaps an example of someone who these days is more mind than body? But for me, I am all three. I can't imagine anything as depressing as being Neo in the matrix - being able to download a programme to learn how to play the piano and becoming an instant master of it - to not experience the joy of failing and learning to pick myself up and try again, to me these are the things that make us human. Of course I understand the desire of others to do differently, to live for ever, but I can't help but think - try really living this life first, and you may find that once is indeed enough - time to give another bit of stardust a go to experience life as we know it.
ReplyDeleteHowever as I often say, Just because we can doesn't mean we should. And that the joy and tragedy of life is that someone else always will.
Thanks for the post, I think I'll re-share it with my comment attached as an alternative observation.