You are a hyper-carnivore

Yet might choose to be vegetarian

Format observation: My posts tend to run very long and I appreciate they can be hard to read. I am trying out a new approach to combat this: each post will have a short version and then an in-depth version following it. You can read only the short. Or if it is really interesting, also read the in-depth version. Let me know what you think about this.

Short version

Our Paleolithic past makes us need meat, but also predisposes some of us to adopt vegetarianism .

For the environment, both industrial farming and industrial animal raising are destructive. Saving the Earth comes from regenerative or circular agriculture, not vegetarianism.

Humans evolved to be hyper-carnivores. Hyper-carnivores are animals for whom meat represents more than 70% of diet. Recent exhaustive research proves this fact. We switched to a grain based diet with the Agricultural Revolution 10,000 — 12,000 years ago. Our bodies have not adapted to this change by losing the need for meat. Especially as almost no civilization became vegetarian even after the Agricultural Revolution. This is why there are severe health risks from the absence of meat. Vegetarianism is unhealthy.