reply to post by itsthetooth
It's not a personal quest to "disprove" you . . . it's not personal. You are just wrong. While you have a cursory understanding of biology, what you
don't know is filtered through the lens of your faith/beliefs. Therefore, you are refusing to accept what is widely known and accepted by those that
don't use 3500yr old ideas or insupportable notions of alien creators, to frame the modern world.
Chimps don't eat meat simply to stave off starvation . . . It's a social predatory function.
We know that although chimpanzees have been recorded to eat more than 35 types of vertebrate animals (Uehara 1997), the most important vertebrate
prey species in their diet is the red colobus monkey.
Predatory habits of chimps
Early hominids were, while still omnivores, mostly foragers. We had to learn to hunt and kill once we left the cornicopia of food that is the forests
and jungles. Being a social animal, we most likely learned from other social predators (wolves) on how to stalk and kill larger prey. The effects of
which can't be overstated. Our diet has evolved over millions of years, as it was learned behavior . . . just like any other animal.
All we are doing is trying to figure out ways to adapt to this problem, without even realizing what or why we are doing it. There is more to the
adaptation process as well. Anytime you have to adapt, you will suffer a reduction in the quality of life. Cows milk as an example, we have to
homogenize, pasterize, and fortify it, and due to all of the work involved you have spent energy that you normally wouldn't have to have spent on your
intended source of calcium. It's also not as good for you as your intended source so you will have to consume more of it, and its not as healthy for
you. We are used to living this way, but its all we can do.
We don't have to do any of that to milk . . . all of those processes are less than 100 years old. Ever heard of raw milk? It's delicious! And,
better for you than the milk you will buy at the store, as long as you aren't drinking it from a cow laced with antibotics and pesticides. In the
grand scheme of things, dairy is relatively new to our diets as well (lactase problem?). Dairy didn't not come into play in our diets until the
domestication of herd animals, approx. 9k yrs ago.
Also, humans could get plenty of calcium from natural (non-dairy) sources. The problem has never been the amount of calcium found in other foods, but
the body's ability to absorb calcium. Humans need to have sufficient vitamin D intake to absorb/process calcium. This is naturally not a problem, as
early humans spent all day outside in the sun. However, today, most humans are vitamin D deficient (thanks cubicle!) and eat high protein diets with
lots of phosphorus (soda?) and it effects our calcium levels. Without proper levels of vitamin D the body can't absorb what is taken in through food
and must steal calcium from your bones. Diets high in protein and phosphorus also inhibit the body's ability to absorb calcium.
You are taking modern problems/adaptions to nutritional problems and assuming thats how we have always been . . . not the case. Even grain, in an
evolutionary timeframe, is a recent addition to our diet (less than 12k yrs ago) thanks to the development of agriculture. Hominids were here and
doing just fine long before steak, milkshakes, and calcium supplements.
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