Human ancestors started eating meat, evolution served up a healthy bonus.< eata this Peta >

Medical News Today ^ | 03-22-2004, 07:40 PM | By Gilien Silsby and Gia Scafidi

[MacDorcha]

Just wondering out loud here though...

How would we have "evolved into meat eating"?

Did someone wake up one day and all of a sudden have the ability to eat meat when all his collegues died from it?

An honest question, please don't flame me as putting down evolution or something like that.

I mean it though; if eating meat would have killed us before we "evolved into eating meat" how did our ancestors know to eat meat in the first place?

If they repeated what other animals did, then they ate meat and died of parasites long before they got the gene.

If they didn't, how did they know to start eating meat?

[MacDorcha]

Hence the k-9's! :)

[blam]

I just had a big hamburger, fries and a glass of milk for lunch. I also take medicine for high cholestoral.

[aft_lizard]

Dry Aging meat is done at many restauraunts and was the most popular form of aging used until a few decades ago, Today we use mostly the wet aging method.

A dry aged steak actually doesnt allow any mold to form it allows the prime or side cut to form a rind, much like aging a cheese. It also takes longer to dry age beef, compared to about a 3 day wet age used to today. If you dont age beef it will be extremely tough and mostly good for only hamburger.

A dry aged steak is also much more tender than a wet aged one, the cellular structure of the meat actually breaks down a little and provides far better flavor. If you ever hear an older person say beef doesnt taste like it used its because the mass marketing of beef has denigrated its quality.

[MacDorcha]

117/68 sys/dys.

I eat like you do regularly. red meat, chicken, fish, eggs, milk. I have some each meal of at least one of these. My dad has high blood pressure though... I guess I'm just lucky... that and martial arts and a type C personality does wonders :)

[aft_lizard]

They probably just built up an immunity after a few years and after a few thousand years it became genetically encoded. I dont think they ate meat and died the next day, but more than likely got the squirts or a fever.

[massgopguy]

Potato Famine.

[MacDorcha]

"If you ever hear an older person say beef doesnt taste like it used its because the mass marketing of beef has denigrated its quality"

That and a loss of the sense of taste and a nostalgic outlook on life "my childhood bedroom used to be much larger"

[blam]

"My dad has high blood pressure though... I guess I'm just lucky."

I actually watch what I eat. Today was an excursion from my mostly vegetable and fish diet. My dad and two of my brothers died of heart attacks at age 51. I just turned 61 and am in good health except for slightly elevated cholestoral.

[Lunkhead_01]

Is that a picture of a PETA person caterwallering about eating meat?

[MacDorcha]

So its more likely they simply didnt have the MEANS to get meat on a regular basis until AFTER they developed the genetics to properly consume it...

Fascinating actually. This is akin to (IMO) the development of harvest grain at right about the time farming began. (some 8,000 years ago if i recall my notes correctly.)

Until that point, farming grains would have been rather useless, as the crude methods and wild oats would have made (more or less) a lot of big dirt pits in early Mesopotamia.

If this info seems off to anyone, feel free to comment. It's based on the teachings of a prof of mine that has more or less expressed that communism didn't work simply because fo the people in charge... not exactly stellar researcher in my opinion, but an overall good guy.

Please, take it with a grain of salt.

[MacDorcha]

BTW, if both of these ideas are fully correct, it only shows me someone awful big was looking out for us then. Most likely still is :)

[vikk]

cured meats happened for a reason.

[the invisib1e hand]

PETA vs. Darwinists. Godlessness makes strange bedfellows.

[vikk]

Our organs and metabolisms evolved to handle meat. We were probably always omniverous, but couldn't get as much of the big-ticket items because we couldn't chase the predators away.
Consider how certain ruminants have three-chambered stomachs, the better to break down fibrous materials like grasses.
Of course, feeding ruminants to ruminants is considered the main reason why Mad Cow developed.

[monday]

"There is no need to eat meat any longer, so I simply don't."

The fat and proteins in meat are important for healthy childhood development. Children who receive little or no meat during childhood score significantly lower on IQ scores and are generally shorter than their meat eating counterparts. Children who receive little or no protein and fats even from vegetable sources often grow up to be functionally mentally and physically retarded.

The rise in the average height of people in industrial countries, documented during the last 100 years, is largely due to increased access to meat and dairy proteins and fats.

While it is important for children to eat plenty of meat during development, it probably isn't so important for adults, indeed, most adults would be better off eating less.

[thepainster]

I am a psuedo-Vegan.

I only eat meat that died from natural causes......