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"it wouldn’t be possible to get Vitamin B12, which is only available in animal products." Marmite? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it can't be found in plants, but it can be found in animals and it can be produced industrially.
"it wouldn’t be possible to get Vitamin B12, which is only available in animal products." Marmite? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
But first you have to get to brewing/fermenting, which isn't a year round process until you have leveled up on a bunch of other skills
This is irresponsible journalism.
"it wouldn’t be possible to get Vitamin B12, which is only available in animal products." Marmite? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
And nutritional yeast etc. But first you have to get to brewing/fermenting, which isn't a year round process until you have leveled up on a bunch of other skills
Hopefully folks reading this article won't take it to mean that humans still need to continue consuming large amounts of meat. Maybe it was necessary to eat meat and hunt to evolve large brains, but the negative economic & ecological impacts of eating meat are pretty well-documented by now. I am thinking here of the "meat industrial complex" that powers a lot of large commercial meat production, not the friendly sust…
This conflates at least four issues: 1. Is is healthy to eat meat? 2. Is it right to eat meat? 3. Is it healthy to eat sustainable organic meat? 4. Is it right to eat sustainable organic meat? Accepting that the 'meat industrial complex' is bad doesn't automatically imply vegetarianism/veganism. In particular, I'm thinking of Joel Salatan's brand of sustainable agriculture and permaculture.
I would readily accept that almost everything about my life is drastically different from the environment in which my ancestors evolved. Those differences seem to have both positive and negative ethical and health consequences.
Also, archaeologists who don't know about nutrition should probably not talk about nutrition as if they did. There are plenty of non-animal sources of B12, including soil (you know, where vegetables grow?).
Hopefully folks reading this article won't take it to mean that humans still need to continue consuming large amounts of meat. Maybe it was necessary to eat meat and hunt to evolve large brains, but the negative economic & ecological impacts of eating meat are pretty well-documented by now. I am thinking here of the "meat industrial complex" that powers a lot of large commercial meat production, not the friendly sust…
Hopefully folks reading this article won't take it to mean that humans still need to continue consuming large amounts of meat. Maybe it was necessary to eat meat and hunt to evolve large brains, but the negative economic & ecological impacts of eating meat are pretty well-documented by now. I am thinking here of the "meat industrial complex" that powers a lot of large commercial meat production, not the friendly sust…
This conflates at least four issues: 1. Is is healthy to eat meat? 2. Is it right to eat meat? 3. Is it healthy to eat sustainable organic meat? 4. Is it right to eat sustainable organic meat? Accepting that the 'meat industrial complex' is bad doesn't automatically imply vegetarianism/veganism. In particular, I'm thinking of Joel Salatan's brand of sustainable agriculture and permaculture.
I also find it hard to resolve the ethical dilemma of eating meat when my body responds so favourably to consuming animal fats. I think the least one can do is to make an effort to try to source locally produced free-range products, but sadly this is difficult for many as it's expensive or simply not available.
The tradeoff between digestion and cognition suggests that adaptations are rarely cost neutral, and explains why random traits don't just improve forever. (ie, why we don't all have eyes like hawks).
Hopefully folks reading this article won't take it to mean that humans still need to continue consuming large amounts of meat. Maybe it was necessary to eat meat and hunt to evolve large brains, but the negative economic & ecological impacts of eating meat are pretty well-documented by now. I am thinking here of the "meat industrial complex" that powers a lot of large commercial meat production, not the friendly sust…