Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "PBS Eons" channel.

I find the vitamin c from fermented liver statement a little too questionable. First, there's so little vitamin c in liver (may be in other part as well but liver is the highest) that in order to sustain an entire population they would have had to kill way too many animals. They either would not have had the time, or skill to kill that many so quickly and efficiently or the local animal populations would have collapsed. Second, it's more likely that they just preserved fruit from summer. If they had such advanced methods of fermentation then they definitely knew how to dry an apple. Dried fruit has been used as far back as 4,000 BC. (probably hard to find evidence before that)
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If we stop eating meat and dairy, then there will be no reason to cut/burn down all the rainforests for make room for soy to feed to the cows meaning not only will the planet 'breathe' easier but also hopefully the orangutan will survive as well. They are just so interesting and fun to watch, especially the young ones.
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@imperialofficer6185 Those are the same thing.
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@Persivefire That's the whole point though. If everyone wants to eat meat for (let's just say) 2 meals a day. They only way to produce enough is by horrendous factory farming, which is not only bad for the animals, but also the environment. It's the leading cause of ocean dead zones (poop/pesticide runoff), deforestation (always need more land to grow soy to feed cows to meet the ever-growing demand for meat), ocean acidification, and greenhouse gas emissions. All good reasons to eat less meat. Or better for your health, stop for good. It's also the leading cause of death in the western world - Heart disease (basically non-existent on a plant based diet since there's no cholesterol and little sat. fat) not to mention diabetes, carcinogens...etc.
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@Persivefire most people deficient in B-12 are meat eaters. explain that? Meat doesn't have that much B-12, and most of it is a supplement anyways, given to the animal. And don't claim that the Inuit are healthy, cause they don't live in a blue zone and have shorter life expectancy than any comparable plant-centric population.
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@totalassuage you can just take a supplement. It's like easier than tying your shoes once a month. Plus most people that are B-12 deficient are meat eaters. So either way, you should take a supplement, obviously.
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@NLTops Rape and murder are also part of the natural world but we as a society form laws to protect against them because they hurt and people don't like being raped and killed. So it's basically just applying that same philosophy to anything that has emotions and can feel pain. That's why vegans oppose others eating meat as well. When people claim that it's just a personal choice, well, personal choices don't effect others, and especially don't result in the death or torture of others. Just something to think about. Many things that are "natural" are not things we would condone today.
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@joebie7315 Thank you! lol Man, some people's lack of logic is beyond baffling.
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@ronfroehlich4697 Sorry to break it to you but meat and animal products lower testosterone, not raise it. Just look at Joe Rogan.
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@YuiFunami Livestock takes up 50% of the land in the US. How is that less than crops? You do know that animals have to be feed in order to survive right? And they don't eat rocks to grow.
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