Originally posted by RJHinds
When meat is cooked, a sweet savor goes up to God.

Originally posted by VoidSpirit
early humans didn't have agriculture, they were gatherers. when the technology of hunting was discovered, it vastly improved their nutrient intake and that's why it was essential for early development.

but in the modern world, with abundant and varied agriculture products, meat is no longer essential, it may even be detrimental...but it is still easy to acquire.

Originally posted by Conrau K
Precisely. Both hunting and meat-eating may have been required in human evolution, but just as hunting is no longer required, too is meat-eating not required.

Proteins serve to build muscle. Were it that you had to chase your food rather than drive to the store and buy it, eating meat would be more necessary. The same would be true if our wars were fought by swinging swords rather than pushing buttons: the society with access to proteins would have an advantage.

This is hardly 'evolution'.

Originally posted by Conrau K
You don't think hunting and meat-eating would be equally essential in human evolution? Did early man have fastfood burgers?

Originally posted by Conrau K
Precisely. Both hunting and meat-eating may have been required in human evolution, but just as hunting is no longer required, too is meat-eating not required.

Originally posted by divegeester
The point in the OP is that meant eating is biologically essential for evolution; hunting has nothing to do with biology.

It's interesting how posters here compromise their view of evolution when modern day social acceptances are at stake.

We need meat to survive - it is the way our bodies have evolved. Accept it.

Originally posted by Darax The Good
No, we don't need meat to survive. I know plenty of people that haven't had meat in decades yet still they live.

Originally posted by RJHinds
When meat is cooked, a sweet savor goes up to God.

Originally posted by divegeester
The point in the OP is that meat eating is biologically essential for evolution; hunting has nothing to do with biology.

It's interesting how posters here compromise their view of evolution when modern day social acceptances are at stake.

We need meat to survive - it is the way our bodies have evolved. Accept it.

Originally posted by divegeester
Our bodies are very adaptable. I also know people who have not eaten meat in decades and they certainly don't look like they are about to procreate. They are often ill or suffering from some skin condition. Basically they look like people who evolution has selected for extinction.

Originally posted by Conrau K
[b]The point in the OP is that meat eating is biologically essential for evolution; hunting has nothing to do with biology.

No; I think the point ia that meat-eating was essential for our evolution, not necessarily that it continues to be essential in our nutrition. But as Twitehead astutely observed, so was hunting. Does that mean we should still hunt?[/b]

Originally posted by Conrau K
I am a vegetarian. I have perfectly healthy skin. I lift weights, run, practice contortion and do slalom skating. I have a haemoglobin count of 170, which is above average for a man, and I donate plasma every three weeks. Providing that a vegetarian eats a variety of foods, they can live quite healthily. I also know many eat-meaters who live off franfurts and salami, have pimples and are over-weight.

Originally posted by divegeester
There is nothing 'astute' about it lol.

We no longer hunt because we have farms, abattoirs and supermarkets which provide us our MEAT.

Hello!

Originally posted by divegeester
I can't argue with this; a balanced diet is essential.

I don't see this a black or white issue tbh, just a point that evolution allegedly demanded we eat meat and some of us now choose not to.