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Humans are not herbivores. There are a lot of good social and ethical reasons to not eat meat, this is not one of them.
Humans may not be obligate herbivores ; nonetheless eating meat invariably hurts us in the short and long term.
Meet is like alcohol, you can get your calories from booze ; but why would you inflict that upon yourself ?
Eating meat is only deleterious. You may be able to stave off the visible consequences for a while, but make no mistake, it is eating you from the inside.
We were not meant to feed upon murder.
Proof ? Vegans are the only human group to be consistently healthy and long lived. We are exempt from many illnesses considered nigh-inevitable, even when genetically predisposed.
I envy your ability to speak so confidently from a point of ignorance.
lots of extraordinary claims here, but no proof at all
Bold of you to assume I’m not happily getting plenty of calories from alcohol, especially the past 15ish months