yep were all gonna be stupid pretty soon. some are already stupid...

Your theory just got pwned

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Linus wrote: Dune wrote: I think it's their choice, let them do it. Semantics--- It's terrorist choice to kill innocents, should we let them? Don't reply to that, it was just some smart ass reply I wanted to throw in, don't hijack!

I will reply, because you asked me not too. If you don't want a stupid reply, then don't try to be cute by doing exactly what annoys many forumers.

Linus wrote: I have nothing against vegans... I just don't like how when I'm eating meat they come up and say "murder" or "why are you eating meat"

P.S. My neighbor became a vegan and then she got fat. This one lady at petsmart is a vegan and shes fat. Bottom line if you don't eat meat you get fat.

Meat is prof thats God loves us

Mmmmmm  T-bones

I really dont get why people hate vegitarians. I think its the same reason people are racist, or people hate homosexuals.

They dont understand it, they dont get it, the other people are different, so BAM, instant hate.

My best friend and her entire family are vegitarians. I have eaten meat around them. Do they flip out and call me a murderer. No. They enjoy their soy-food.

(I must say, I have gone vegitarian for small amounts of time , 6 months about, and some of the veggie-food meat-substitues are not half bad at all)

I think the people only hear about people getting called murderers for eating meat, none of them ever get called it themselvs. Its always a friend of a friend of a cousin. Same with people who go into McDonalds and nobody speaks English. It just dosent happen.

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Blue Hopper wrote: P.S. My neighbor became a vegan and then she got fat. This one lady at petsmart is a vegan and shes fat. Bottom line if you don't eat meat you get fat.

So two examples = the bottomline.

Amazing.

Anybody else find it funny that the people in this thread claiming that eating meat made us smarter are acting like idiots?

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BlackDeath7 wrote: I like meat and I am on the A honor roll. Coincidence?  I think not.

Worst. Deduction. Ever.

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I <3 animals, theyre delicious

best when its super rare and has blood dripping from it. waitresses get all grossed out when i tear into that stuff though

Let me clear up a couple things:

Red meat contains all kinds of bad things for you, cholesterol and saturated fat being the tops. Chicken and fish are much less bad for you and fish contains some essentials like omega-3 (or 6?) fatty acids.

People who eat a complete vegetarian diet (recieve all essential amino acids) eat a far superior diet to meatatarians, depending on the type of foods they eat. You can absolutely get fat on a vegetarian diet if you load up on simple carbohydrates like donuts, breads, and candy.

Dibi-there is nothing that the brain needs from meats. The brain is unique because it can only survive on pure sugar (glucose), and cannot metabolize anything else. Other body cells can metabolize fats and proteins for energy, but the brain cannot.

And Linus, how many times has a crazed, liberal vegetarian ever called you an "animal killer"? Truly? Most people become vegetarians due to their own desires.

DBibeau855 wrote: Diet doesnt dictate evolution.

Actually, diet is a significant contributing factor to evolution, along the lines outlined earlier in the thread.

If the food source changes, either due to ecological change, social change, or whatever, then evolution has to quickly play catchup with the new diet.

Then, of course, there is the co-evolution of moths and orchids, for instance, where the preferred diet of the moth (orchid nectar) is the driving force behind drastic changes over the centuries.

Of course, I may have completely missed your point.

Dune wrote: I do not feel as if I can try to make some half assed excuse as to why we might be smarter.

When I need to feel smarter I come to this forum...

Frozen Balls wrote: Dune wrote: If people don't want to eat me then they shouldn't have to. Well that will certainly help me sleep at night.

I'm gald that little jolt of common sense is helpful to you.

Dibi - I did miss your point.  My bad.

I still think diet is tied to evolution, though, in a very tautological kind of way - if you have evolved to be able to eat lots of things, for instance, that could give you an evolutionary leg up on species that only eat one thing.  Or if you have evolved to where you can utilize certain proteins that allow you to grow bigger, that could also be an evolutionary advantage.

More to the point - if a species evolves to where it eats certain insects, and has evolved the beak to go with it, that bird would presumably now also evolve the internal organs to best utilize the nutrition of the insects, and perhaps the beak will be tweaked further to allow for easier bug-crushing.

I see your point (I think), but evolution works on so many levels, so the simple fact of the diet itself will help define what is a favorable trait.

(I presume that was obvious to you, but perhaps not to others)

Murdock wrote: Dune, the pessimistic warrior of the meek

Better than being the arrogant warrior of the ignorant.

Frozen Balls wrote: I think you missed my funny.

Haha, how so?