Hominids were always on the verge of extinction. They couldn't afford such qualms of conscience. They ate anything and everything digestible. That's actually been true up until very recent times.
Earliest ancestors of humans and even most of our ancestors thousands of years ago were mostly plant eaters. Meat was rare in many cultures. Humans mostly ate meat for survival but it isn't a neccessity in this day and age nor do we need it for survival anymore. They had to hunt for meat and didn't eat as much meat as is eaten today in no way. Because we once ate meat for survival or ate anything and everything doesn't justify to eat it today. When it's not needed. When you also look at other apes, they are mostly plant eaters. Not to mention the fact that agriculture in this day and age is destroying our planet as we are also consuming more meat than ever. Our ancestors did not live this way.
Macronutrients from meat are extremely important, and before the easy transport of different kinds of plant foods from one area to another it would have been very difficult for hominids and even humans of prior areas to substitute certain plant foods or combinations of them to get those macronutrients."According to this hypothesis, the micronutrients gained from meat are so important that even small scraps of meat are worth the very high energy expenditure that cooperative hunting entails. Important components of meat include not only vitamins A and K, calcium, sodium, and potassium, but also iron, zinc, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12; the latter, although necessary for a balanced primate diet, is present only in small quantities in plants. In addition, macronutrients such as fat and protein, hard to come by in the environments where chimpanzees live, may be important dietary components of meat-eating."
All those nutrients can easily be found in plants and are not even made naturally by animals. Those very animals have absorbed those vitamins and nutrients from the plants they have eaten or their diet. Vitamin B12 isn't naturally produced by animals but rather is found in soil which the animals pick up. This is why many meat eaters are Vitamin B12 deficient. Vitamin B12 can be found in other sources or you could take it as a supplement. Many meat eaters are also vitamin D deficient and folate deficient This is why you also see many meat eaters and animal eaters take supplements. Protein can easily be found in beans and many other plant foods and is actually a much healthier source of protein than from meat, protein from meat is actually cancer promoting while protein from plants is rather the opposite.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216648/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963616/
Also showed fat from animals as unhealthy. There are plenty of other studies. Now I have seen ''studies'' that try to argue against this by claiming meat containts nurtients , all those nutrients can be found in plants , these nurtients have been picked up from plants by the animals. Doesn't make actual meat healthy, protein in meat is unhealthy, it also containts unhealthy fat and high cholestorol.
Calcium can be found in plants and is actually much healthier than the calcium you would recieve from milk from another mammal which isn't even meant for a human to consume in the first place but actually for the mammals baby. In the same way it would be dumb to take milk from the breast of a human woman and sell it in stores instead of giving it to her baby. Fat can be found in seeds.
You also forgot how meat totally lacks fiber which is only found in plant foods and is important to human health. You also forgot how meat consumption and dairy are linked to increase rates of cancer and various other diseases.
Meat is classified as a type 1 carcogenic food by the world health organization. Which means that it is a toxic food , pretty much. Except for B12 which can be found naturally in soil or from a supplement, a correct plant based diet containts much more nutrients than an animal based diet pretty much and can get you all the nurtients you need if done correctly.
Even WHFoods lists a Vegan diet as healthier
http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=363
Our gut system evolved into one suited for meat eaters."It seems that our bodies had to adjust gradually, first getting hooked on seeds and nuts, which are rich in fats but poor in fiber. If our ancestors ate a lot of them, such a diet would have encouraged the growth of the small intestine (where the digestion of lipids takes place) and the shrinking of the caecum (where fibers are digested). This would have made our guts better for processing meat. A seed-and-nut diet could have prepared our ancestors for a carnivorous lifestyle in another way, too: It could have given them the tools for carving carcasses. Some researchers suggest that the simple stone tools used for pounding seeds and nuts could have easily been reassigned to cracking animal bones and cutting off chunks of flesh. And so, by 2.5 million years ago, our ancestors were ready for meat: They had the tools to get it and the bodies to digest it.But being capable is one thing; having the will and skill to go out and get meat is quite another. So what inspired our ancestors to look at antelopes and hippos as potential dinners? The answer, or at least a part of it, may lie in a change of climate approximately 2.5 million years ago. As the rains became less abundant, so did the fruits, leaves, and flowers that our ancestors relied on. Much of the rain forest turned into sparsely wooded grasslands, with few high-quality plants to eat but with more and more grazing animals. During the long, dry spell from January through April, our ancestors would have had problems getting enough food, and to find their usual fare, they would have had to expend more time and calories. Early hominins were at an evolutionary crossroads. Some, like the australopiths, chose to eat large quantities of lower-quality plants; others, like early Homo, went for meat. The australopiths ended up extinct, but early Homosurvived to evolve into modern humans."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/when-humans-became-meateaters/463305/
Yes , this was mostly for survival reasons, as the article says at a time during climate change but we didn't actually evovle to eat it nor do we need it for survival today. The article says basically they had to eat it to survive because they had no access to other foods due to a climate change. And we had to hunt for it and didn't have it easily available which means in most cases we still chose easier available plants.
We don't need it to survive today. Throughout most of history we were still plant eaters and we grew and cultivated plant foods. Meat Eating was adopted during time of surivival when it was needed, as the article says. This climate change only affected parts of the globe and only certain humans and which is why you see also apes never died off despite being mostly plant eaters. They are also actually physically stronger than humans.
Truth is , our ancestors didn't eat nearly as much meat as we eat today nor is it needed today for survival normismit really justified.
The article isn't saying we need meat, it is actually admitting that our ancestors were plant eaters but at one point some of them had to eat meat in some parts of the globe in order to survive through a certain period of time, this doesn't mean that throughout most human history we only ate meat or ate heavily meat or that we need it for survival in general. We still ate plants and cultivated plant foods and in most cases was easier available since we had to hunt for meat.
Our gut system hasn't really evolved to eating meat nor is eating meat supposedly healthy for our gut system.
This study actually found Vegans had a healthier gut than meat eaters as Vegans also had less inflammation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245565/
Not only that, but they found these Vegans had also other incredible health benefits compared to meat eaters which I can't bother to qoute so you can just click the link and read.
Now, if people, for reasons of conscience or anything else, no longer wish to consume meat, that's of course their choice, but the facts are the facts.
The facts are animal agriculture is destroying our planet , we don't need meat to survive, we are also breeding animals into existence and enslaving them when it isnt even needed.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...mental-impact-james-cameron-suzy-amis-cameron
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_production
Meat and dairy industry are also propgandists and money making scammers , its a billion dollar industry, basically like a mob.
Facts are facts.
