>>10951741In contrast to you, I'm actually an ethnic European. Not an identity-less mutt who has got no idea where his ancestors come from. Maybe you're just careless about the health aspects of a vegan diet and just ideologically motivated for the animals. That's fine, but don't pretend that veganism is a healthy alternative to the atrocious standard American diet. Imagine advocating for a diet that stems from the agricultural revolution which caused a severe nutrition detriment, but an explosion in population. Almost all modern disease is linked to increased carb intake (especially grains).
If you're not some dirt-poor peasant in Asia and have any control over your diet, there is no reason not to eat like your hunter-gatherer ancestors. Or, eat your peasant diet and stay docile.
>“Hunter Gatherers got 68% of their calories from animal products, seasonally resp. more”>In this review we have analyzed the 13 known quantitative dietary studies of HG and demonstrate that animal food actually provided the dominant (65%) energy source, while gathered plant foods comprised the remainder (35%). This data is consistent with a more recent, comprehensive review of the entire ethnographic data (n=229HG societies) that showed the mean subsistence dependence upon gathered plant foods was 32%, whereas it was 68% for animal foods. Other evidence, including isotopic analyses of Paleolithic hominid collagen tissue, reductions in hominid gut size, low activity levels of certain enzymes, and optimal foraging data all point toward a long history of meat-based diets in our species.https://www.nature.com/articles/1601353https://web.archive.org/web/20190514095546/https://www.nature.com/articles/1601353>“Northern Hunter Gatherers (Scandinavians) carb intake less than 15% of total energy, varies racially”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271531711000911https://web.archive.org/web/20190514120029/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271531711000911