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Old 05-18-2015, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by dbussone View Post
Protein may have been "recognized" in 1839, but it was "discovered" and utilized by early man and the hunter/gatherer societies that followed to present mankind. Your article implies that humans have become meat eaters only recently - which overlooks the entire prior history of man. When the basis of an article is flawed I can only conclude that the supposition is also flawed.

Maybe Darwin's theory of natural selection is at work here. Man, when possible, appears to be choosing a diet with animal protein over a vegan existence. Good for Darwin. He got it right.
Doesn't eating meat go back even farther than the discovery of fire? That discovery was 3.4 million years ago in the Stone Age. "Early meat eater human ancestors thrived while vegetarian hominin died out."

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...inin-died-out/
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