Speaker to Animals wrote: Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:55 pm
We no longer possess the adaptations to eat plant-based diets without getting sick.
No, we no longer possess the cultural heritage to know how to do it. It's tricky, a lot of vegans aren't that bright or don't want to bother to learn enough to be healthy. I had a vegan tenant couple, holy shit they were thin! I was terrified when they had a baby. There were cultures that were effectively vegan but had thousands of years of knowledge behind them on how to eat that way, like the Meso-American diet of corn treated with lime, beans and squash. When the Europeans took Maize back with them they didn't bother to learn the technology to unlock it's nutrition.
Wiki:
Adoption of the nixtamalization process did not accompany the grain to Europe and beyond, perhaps because the Europeans already had more efficient milling processes for hulling grain mechanically. Without alkaline processing, maize is a much less beneficial foodstuff, and malnutrition struck many areas where it became a dominant food crop. In the nineteenth century, pellagra epidemics were recorded in France, Italy, and Egypt, and kwashiorkor hit parts of Africa where maize had become a dietary staple.
My wife knew someone who had weird eating habits and got real sick, turned out to have scurvy! She also had a friend whose food phobia of salt was so bad her doctor told her she had to eat salt. She wasn't even hypertensive!
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND