I know, I KNOW, we are omnivores (you, me, maybe not our llm friends, but most of us)... but that doesn't quite line up with biological necessity.

I would argue we are facultative omnivores, but obligate carnivores. We can eat plants for efficiency (famines and whatnot), but they are not necessary for life. Meat, however, is necessary - at the very least we would have b vitamin deficiencies without meat, and babies wouldn't develop into healthy humans without it.

People will argue, and i love you all for it, that maybe this applies historically but in the modern food environment we can engineer our way out of this obligation - sure, that's true, but when speaking of our species appropriate and native diet - we would still be obligate carnivores

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 day ago

someone wants to get scurvy

If you want to get scurvy, you have to avoid meat. Despite the myth - fresh meat has vitamin c in it, it has been a historic CURE for scurvy. In a glucose free diet there is less competition for the glut4 transporter, which will take up the vitamin c... plus meat provides essential material the body would use vitamin c to produce... in a animal based diet there is less demand for vitamin c overall.

There is no documented case of someone contracting scurvy on a animal based diet, just consider the inuit who survive in the arctic circle without access to fresh fruit.

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