If some some pre-modern hominids ate high animal diets, and some populations of humans did, and that continued through history, I wouldn’t call that relatively recent. I’m not the same person making the claim that there is overwhelming evidence that saturated fats can’t possibly be bad for you. I’m making a much more restricted claim.
I am perhaps not speaking as precisely as I should be. I appreciate your comments.
I believe it’s correct to say that if you consider all of the food/energy we consumed in the past 50+ million years, it’s virtually all plants.
The past 2-2.5 million years had us introducing more animal products to greater or lesser extents. Some were able to subsist on mostly animal products. Some consumed them very rarely.
In that sense it is a relatively recent introduction. My main point is that given our evolutionary history, the idea that plants would be healthier for us than animal products when we have both in abundance, and the idea that plants are more suitable to maintaining health long past reproductive age, aren’t immediately/obviously unreasonable ideas.
If some some pre-modern hominids ate high animal diets, and some populations of humans did, and that continued through history, I wouldn’t call that relatively recent. I’m not the same person making the claim that there is overwhelming evidence that saturated fats can’t possibly be bad for you. I’m making a much more restricted claim.
I am perhaps not speaking as precisely as I should be. I appreciate your comments.
I believe it’s correct to say that if you consider all of the food/energy we consumed in the past 50+ million years, it’s virtually all plants.
The past 2-2.5 million years had us introducing more animal products to greater or lesser extents. Some were able to subsist on mostly animal products. Some consumed them very rarely.
In that sense it is a relatively recent introduction. My main point is that given our evolutionary history, the idea that plants would be healthier for us than animal products when we have both in abundance, and the idea that plants are more suitable to maintaining health long past reproductive age, aren’t immediately/obviously unreasonable ideas.