@verylate said in #30:
> the human species isn't so much carnivorous as omnivorous. We are equipped to handle pretty much anything that Mother Nature throws our way, which is why we as a species have managed to hang around for so long without killing ourselves off. (given our talent for collective stupidity on a suicidal scale, this really should have happened a couple of millenia ago. Or maybe it just shows that the gods love a good laugh, and have kept us hanging around more out of habit than anything else)
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> What has happened is that, due to the sort of economic inequality that no one who can explain is capable of understanding, and no one who is capable of understanding can explain, there is a "first world" ( first in wht sense?) where red meat is so readily available that it is easy for one to become addicted to eating it, and suffer certain by now well known health effects from enjoying too much of good thing. Yes. it's a first world problem, and the fact that a lot of "gimme my steak blue rare!" first worlders are getting it in the end is of little comfort for the "third worlders" who pay a heavy price in terms of environmental, political, and economic degradation to support this first world lifestyle choice. (you can thank me later for not calling it a "depraved lifestyle choice")
True, which is why I always put lettuce, pickles, onions, and peppers on my 100% pure Angus burgers. Of course the buns have sesame seeds. Put some tater salad and an ear of corn on my plate too. Omni all the way.
> the human species isn't so much carnivorous as omnivorous. We are equipped to handle pretty much anything that Mother Nature throws our way, which is why we as a species have managed to hang around for so long without killing ourselves off. (given our talent for collective stupidity on a suicidal scale, this really should have happened a couple of millenia ago. Or maybe it just shows that the gods love a good laugh, and have kept us hanging around more out of habit than anything else)
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> What has happened is that, due to the sort of economic inequality that no one who can explain is capable of understanding, and no one who is capable of understanding can explain, there is a "first world" ( first in wht sense?) where red meat is so readily available that it is easy for one to become addicted to eating it, and suffer certain by now well known health effects from enjoying too much of good thing. Yes. it's a first world problem, and the fact that a lot of "gimme my steak blue rare!" first worlders are getting it in the end is of little comfort for the "third worlders" who pay a heavy price in terms of environmental, political, and economic degradation to support this first world lifestyle choice. (you can thank me later for not calling it a "depraved lifestyle choice")
True, which is why I always put lettuce, pickles, onions, and peppers on my 100% pure Angus burgers. Of course the buns have sesame seeds. Put some tater salad and an ear of corn on my plate too. Omni all the way.
