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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