>>2343641>And thousands of other biologists, dieticians, sports scientists, nutritionists, anthropologists, botanists etcTake a good long look on the history of science and you will immediately notice why. People tend to go with the flow and they want to be important. Humans have a natural tendency to feel superior and in control. Thus, if someone comes up with an idea that promotes said desires, the scientific community is prone to adapt it to fluff out their intellectual comfort zone of being the best and brightest that ever lived.
Bullshit like "we only developed a bigger brain because we ate meat" and such nonsense is not only scientifically disproven, it is also the exact opposite of what happened. There were high times of human civilization with functioning trade, industry and agriculture and then there were times without it. In those times without it, people reverted back to primitive hunting and slaughtering of animals.
The further you go back in time, the more this becomes evident. Cheese made in China thousands of years ago (I think it was 4000 BCE) was made from plants. The Indus valley civilization and the oldest Sanskrit records: what do they say? They clearly state that the sages of old strictly opposed such behavior. Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism are well known worldviews that have differing degrees of strictness for this behavior, Jain probably being the most consistent.
https://www.stephen-knapp.com/vegetarianism_recommended_in_Vedic_scripture.htmSo no, people did not always do this. There were cultural high phases and then through catastrophe they degenerated into a state of chaos and violence. Even the Greeks looked at the Semites to their East and labeled them as barbaric for having such a brute legal and moral system. And this Judeo-Christian value system is half of the basis of our modern society, the other being the Greek Humanism.
This is what real food looks like:
https://www.harekrsna.com/practice/prasadam/recipes/recipes.htm 