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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
humans are optimized for eating mostly or exclusively plant foods, according to the best evidence
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the reason humans have large brains is because our distant ancestors ate cooked meat, which provided much more energy than plants or uncooked meat - and the brain uses a lot of energy
while it would clearly take thousands of generations for the brains of modern humans' on a vegan diet to shrink noticeably, I'm glad our forbears stuck with eating meat
maybe those Neanderthals liked veggie-burgers?