Ancient man a carnivore? || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00There are a few myths that need to be dispelled.

00:20Yes, man has had the inclination and the capacity to eat meat since a very, very long

00:45time. But even when man was in the jungle, he was primarily a herbivore. And this is

01:02borne out by scientific analysis of the fossils being dug out and many other kinds of equally

01:25rigorous scientific evidences. It is obvious that for the inhabitant of the jungle, the

01:41hunter-gatherer, it is far easier to pluck a fruit than to chase and catch an animal

01:54and then kill it and then eat it. So it is a myth that our ancient, ancient forefathers

02:07were all carnivores. They did have meat when it was probably available and that is likely

02:27to have been quite sporadic. So man comes actually from a primarily vegetarian, herbivore

02:42background. The argument that man has always been a meat-eater needs to be studied and

02:55refuted. The current splurge in meat-eating is not more than 200 years old. It came along

03:22with industrialization and the popularization of thought that it is meat alone that can

03:40provide for protein or calcium or many other important nutrients to the body. It was obviously

03:54a highly unscientific belief but it got popularized. Now since the last 30, 40, 50 years as we

04:15are progressing, there is tons of scientific data to conclusively prove that not only

04:35are we not historically prolific meat-eaters but also that meat-eating or milk consumption

04:44has a highly deleterious effect on the human body. But then this data is now fighting against

05:00a huge mountain of habit and vested financial interests. You know of the size of the global

05:15meat industry. You know of the size of animal agriculture. They are one of the biggest industries

05:24on the face of this planet. So now even as it becomes known that probably mankind took

05:34a wrong dietary turn quite recently, just around 200 years back, in opting for a primarily

05:46meat-based diet, yet the momentum of the last two centuries is making it difficult

05:58for most people to correct their mistake. And of course, added to that is the heft of

06:09the meat industry, the financial power, the political power they possess, the kind of

06:19control over media that they have, and all the levers that they can pull.

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