@Keith Mowz
Well, that has more to do with similar body size, nutritional requirements, and composition of bodily tissues. The closest would be another primate, however most are either too small for use with organ transplants, or too rare. But there are some countries where monkeys are part of the native diet.
@TheDeinonychus
And that’s why pork is the meat of kings. Pigs are close enough to use for temporary organ transplants, ballistics and forensics. Supposedly we even taste enough the same due to our similarly omnivorous diets that human meat was referred to as long pork in the south pacific.
@LuminoZero
That was Teen Titans. Raven to Beast Boy when he tried to offer her a tofu-burger I believe.
As I’ve said often. I like tofu… As tofu. Not as fake meat.
There’s a principle in dietary biology that I remember very clearly, and I like to bring up when someone rants about how people shouldn’t eat meat. The more closely related to you evolutionarily that something is, the easier it is on your body to process the nutrients from it. This is why a starving man would recover more quickly on a meat-heavy diet than on one that consisted entirely of plant matter. This is also how, when people are forced to resort to cannibalism, they can last longer in extreme conditions, because the ‘food’ they are eating contains more of what their bodies need to survive.
Ask any survival expert. While foraging for fruits and berries may keep you alive, you’ll fair far better if you’re able to hunt or trap for animals.
We have. The technology exists, but the energy you get out of it isn’t profitable yet. It isn’t an effective means of generating energy. You can generate energy out of, literally, anything. The question is always the bottom line, do you make more than you spend, and do you make enough to make the venture profitable?
@SeraphimDawn
Nuh uh, you can totally not eat meat and be healthy. The fact that this requires you to go out of your way to track down all of the various individual foods to fill in the gaps is not significant in any way!
I hear somewhere that humans actually have to consume meat. Because we lack the capability to produce complete animal protein from plant protein like herbivore animals like cows and sheep do.
@LuminoZero
Also not a problem that a person deciding they’re not going to eat anything made with so much as anything having to do with animals is going to solve in any way so… yeah I’m sure there’s plenty to argue and complain about with sustainability and environmentalism but I dunno, seems like a lot of really depressing, potentially politically-charged stuff to get into when all that’s originally being talked about is a teenager deciding they wanna yell at people who drink milk because they should totes be vegan.
That’s not the issue. The issue is that we introduce more animals into the ecosystem than it is equipped to handle. Nothing is simple. Cattle feces and such is actually a major source of water pollution.
Like I said before, we see one problem, we offer one solution, and we stop thinking there. Problems are never so simple.
@SeraphimDawn
I’m not saying people should stop being vegan. But it takes a lot of commitment and in many places, it can get pretty expensive and tricky to do. Availability plays a huge role. I’ve spoken with a vegan on this site who lives in Alaska. She said it was next to impossible to maintain a purely vegan diet in a place that has been living off of and are well known for seafood.
@SeraphimDawn
Yeah, no, diary products are delicious. Plus all the shit indirectly made with milk, baking and whatnot. Its kind of a very, very basic ingredient that shows up in so much stuff. Combined with the fact that you don’t have to kill the animals to get it, it really makes me wonder why you’d give up so many foods that can still be produced with ethical practices if you’re willing to spend the extra time and money to research the shit if it bothers you enough to otherwise boycott it.
