#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...
Or maybe just one of those friends did an online search for the subject matter while connected to the same wifi. I get FB ads all the time for things my wife has accessed online and she doesn't use FB at all, pretty sure it's the common external IP address that they match up.
ReplyDeleteGoogle does the same thing. Before I opted out of targeted ads and used adblock full time, I would regularly see adverts for things I had spoken aloud about, but never ever typed on the computer.
ReplyDeleteDuncan Booth wow I'd say that's a big intrusion of Facebook. The shouldn't be able to track what everyone in the same IP are doing online. Total violation of privacy.
ReplyDeleteeric peacock at least I would trust Google a bit more than Facebook with this kind of information. Though it's totally wrong of them to spy on us like that, without being totally transparent about it.