Honoring our Evolution … (05/26/17)
It is not at all unusual for me to hear one person or another tell me in no uncertain terms that our ancient ancestors ate meat — that eating meat is what allowed our fore-fore-fore-fathers’ brains to evolve, and that as such he or she should also be allowed to eat meat in peace in these far more modern times.
Well, I could go on a bit now about how quite a few sociologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists are now backing a competing theory (believing that it was actually our ancestors’ communal need to work together while foraging for protein-dense plant-based food sources that spurred our neocortex to higher levels of complexity), and I could go on a bit more about how human biophysiology seems to clearly show that while our bodies did evolve the capability to digest the flesh of dead animals — we still do so extremely inefficiently (showing that we are essentially meant to eat meat only during times of emergency starvation; hence all the cancer and heart disease in modern-day non-vegans) …
AND YET I don’t think that’s what I’ll do here today. Instead, I think I am going to give a huge shout-out to those fore-fathers & fore-mothers of old; those ancient relatives who did indeed do whatever needed to be done to survive in extremely harsh circumstances … indeed, their incredible drive to survive, no matter what they had to eat to do so, is indirectly what allowed our species to evolve to its current state of being — a state of being that now knows what it means to be dignified; a state of being that now knows what it means to be compassionate; a state of being that now knows that it is wrong to cause another to suffer & die for mere personal pleasure; a state of being that has evolved far enough to now know that humans can live — and indeed thrive — humanely; in essence, a state of being that now knows we have been called to Be Vegan.
So let’s honor our meat-eating ancestors today my Friends … Let’s honor them today by making the choice that they oftentimes could not make … Let’s honor the evolution of our ancestors by acting accordingly … Let’s honor our ancient relatives by living as Vegans.
Peace to ALL … S
“Humans claim to be intelligent, and yet they still feed as if they were living in caves.” ~ Carmona Almeina
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