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    Today, most people are "more vegan" than meat eater, too, as in they eat more grains and vegetables than meat. If that's what you meant.

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    There's no evidence to support that. Best evidence is that our ancestors for the longest time were likely opportunistic omnivores. Plants of course were a large part of the diet, but looking back to about 3.9 mya meat was on the menu.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis

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    Yes scavenging for meat is generally considered a very important part of human evolution. Our stomachs are particularly acidic when compared to other great apes. This is believed to have evolved due to a high consumption of scavenged meats.

    You are right though plants generally did form a large portion of our and our ancestors diets.

    Important to note that as our brain size increased it did correlate with increased meat consumption as well. This all goes into calorie densities, available nutrients, and evolutionary pressures.

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    "outside insects and scavenging"

    So, scavenger and omnivore... never vegan

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    We, humans, have only existed for around 200,000 years, you are referring to multiple different species that are explicitly not Homo Sapiens Sapiens that all had different organic needs and requirements than what we require. This stance really does not hold any kind of scientific relevance to the human diet. We are inarguably evolved, as humans, to be omnivores, and arguably obligate omnivores if you’re trying to be scientific about it.

    Veganism is a choice based on modern subjective morality, there is no objective or scientific explanation or reason for humans to be vegan. It’s a choice, plain and simple, and it does not make you better or worse than anyone else.

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