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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • And we have no more old people in this country. No more old people. We shipped them all away and we brought in these senior citizens

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    Well, I’m getting old and it’s okay because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die. I’ll pass away or I’ll expire like a magazine subscription.

    What happens in the hospital. They’ll call in the terminal episode, the insurance company will refer to it as a “negative patient care outcome” and if it’s the result of malpractice they’ll say it was a therapeutic misadventure.

    I’m telling you some of this language makes me wanna vomit. Well, maybe not vomit. It makes me want to engage in an involuntary personal protein spill.

    — George Carlin


  • I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, very likely eating meat is less bad than drinking e.g. Coca Cola (but FWIW I’m not a nutritionist), but your premise is wrong: just because we evolved doing something doesn’t mean it’s not bad. It’s a classical „appeal to nature“ fallacy.

    Nature doesn’t care about your „health“, it just needs you to be able to reproduce. Now with regard to humans we’re able to reproduce at age ~11-14y, but we also do need to take care of our offspring (roughly) the same time, so that would put the needed lifespan of any given human being at ~25y. Give or take, just trying to make a point here.

    But we are able to live much longer than that, in industrialised countries we’re clocking in at >80y, so being and staying healthy at that age is not something that evolution prepared us for.

    Having evolved to eat meat doesn’t mean anything beyond the reproduction timeline.

    (Also, the poster above was making a point about industrial animal husbandry being one major factor to climate change, so it goes beyond human evolution.)