On a recent Facebook thread regarding a three part YouTube video addressing The Atheist Experience host Matt Dillahunty's views on meat/veganism, fellow co-host Tracie Harris wrote this wonderful response, which I felt needed to be shared with the world -
"Stop being an omnivore, Matt. You were born flawed and only by overcoming your humanity can you be a good human.
I don't really care what anyone's personal dietary choices are--to each their own. Like religion, it's none of my business until a person starts promoting it to others. But after I left the church, that's when I stopped apologizing for being a human.
I sometimes wish people who say things about how unhealthy eating animals is would take some anthropology courses before they speak. Nearly all of the studies on unhealthy meat eating do not take into account many forms of meat eating. The Inuit and the Maasai had fantastic health metrics, even while their diets were sometimes 100% meat products because growing food in many of the areas they inhabit isn't practical. Their health metrics (Inuit most dramatically) declined considerably after they began incorporating Western diets into their traditional lifestyles.
Meanwhile in the Americas, European explorers sometimes did very poorly on treks where the Native American guides fared quite well, because the Europeans tended to eat mainly muscle, where the indigenous people would eat organ meat and other parts of the animal--that are vitamin rich, but considered inferior meats by Western people.
The Western diet is garbage, and the way in which we eat meat is often not the best way to eat it. But that should *never* be confused as "eating meat is inherently unhealthy for a species that is known to be an evolved omnivore." That claim is actually ludicrous for anyone to believe if they understand that we are scientifically classed as ominivores, and humans have developed meat eating diets on every continent upon which they exist.
I also find it extremely offensive that people call meat eating inherently unethical--which is one of the most disgustingly ethnocentric claims a person can make--basically vilifying nearly every known culture historically and globally (certainly almost every single indigenous population) for surviving in concert with their human heritage.
The "science" behind these ideologies is garbage science. And the fact it's so readily accepted in the face of contradicting realities that stare them in the face, is a testament to their bias".
