Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "PETA Enlists Serial Killer To Battle Meat-Eating" video.
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That argument is just plain ludicrous, though. Cutting off your legs, obviously, is detrimental to your health. Eating food is not. So by principle alone, your logic fails.
And that story isn't "just read from the internet". It's the prevailing scientific theory on how humans became intelligent, as taught to me as a graduate of biology. Digesting plant matter is difficult, it isn't very nutritious so the animal must eat lots of it, and takes up a large part of the metabolic process, so much of the body's energy goes to the digestive system and not to, say, spending it on building new synapses in the brain. That's why most herbivores are, well, dumb.
Meat, on the other hand, is easily digestible, and is chock full of lipids, proteins and amino acids, all of which are vital for brain development. Not to mention, the act of hunting and catching prey requires cunning. So it's no surprise that the archaeological records show that early humans started to develop rapidly when the onset of large canine teeth began to appear in the skulls of Australopithecus.
But I really wouldn't expect someone who honest to god tries to equate cutting off one's legs as a valid response to a sound argument for an omnivorous diet to possibly understand that. Must be all that energy being siphoned away from your brain.
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