* Fact : Just because our ancestors were forced to hunt in order to survive times of severe famine , does not mean that we should continue to eat animals today ... As stated earlier , during most of our evolutionary history we were almost completely vegan . The addition of meat to the early human diet came only with the discovery of fire , which allowed us to lower the risk of being sickened or killed by the parasites in the meat our ancestors were forced to eat to avoid starvation ( or learned to eat via addictive habit thereafter ). In addition , we humans only started consuming animal dairy roughly 10,000 years ago – also very recently in our species ’ evolution , and also in response to times of desperate famine . Please note that these behaviors did not turn our ancestors ( or us ) into carnivores or “ true omnivores ”, but rather simply allowed our early forefathers & foremothers to survive periods of time when far healthier plant foods were unavailable .
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* Fact : Just because we humans can do certain things , does not mean that we are designed to do so . I mean we can digest cardboard , but that doesn ’ t make it a good idea to eat it ... And in fact , at least when it comes to eating meat and digesting milk products , it is quite clear that we humans are actually designed to NOT do so . This is why our GI tract has so much trouble digesting animal flesh and the mammary secretions from other species , and this is why the consumption of animal products has been conclusively linked to higher rates of various types of cancer , diabetes , colorectal disorders , high blood pressure , heart attack , heart disease , osteoporosis , stroke & obesity in humans today .
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