Comment by YeGoblynQueenne
7 years ago
Well, most people on the planet don't eat meat in every single meal.
I've commented on this before, but I'm Greek and our traditional cuisine has many dishes that are naturally vegan, in the sense that no meat or animal products are used in them, but nobody actually calls them, or thinks of them as vegan, only as "normal food". There's a list here, compiled by a vegan very happy to have visited Greece:
https://www.thenomadicvegan.com/the-nomadic-vegans-guide-to-...
I believe this is a common situation in many parts of the world. I thik most people eat meat only according to their needs. Especially earlier in human history, before industrial farming, meat would have been an expensive luxury for most people, who would have complemented their diet with fish, dairy and eggs, being naturally lacto- ovo- pescaterian rather than vegan, and would have eaten meat (especially beef) on special occasions like feasts and weddings and so on.
So maybe veganism is a reaction to the particular eating habbits of specific parts of the world, where meat is eaten too frequently?
Different genotypes have different levels of dependence on animal protien. They found specifically in India a pathway that made plant protiens better used. So what too much meat is varies by person. I think 1.5lbs of beef a day is probably more than enough for anyone. I did that for a year and my blood work was fantastic but it was definitely excessive to my needs.
1.5 lbs of beef a day is _a lot_. Are you sure you're saying that right?
I was rounding 1.36lbs (raw) of grassfed ground beef (85 / 15)mixed with diced hatch chilis and 2 mashed sweet potatoes. That was just lunch. I lost 30lbs that year, my tryglycerides recovered from my soylent months as well.
A lot of South Indian food would pass for “vegan” as well.