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Old March 22nd, 2004, 10:42 PM
Succorso
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Default Human ancestors started eating meat, evolution served up a healthybonus...

Ken Kubos wrote:

"Meat contains cholesterol and fat, not to mention potential parasites and
diseases like Mad Cow," he said. "We believe humans evolved to resist these
kinds of things. Mad Cow disease - which probably goes back millions of
years - would have wiped out the species if we hadn't developed
meat-tolerant genes."


Er... rubbish. BSE (Mad Cow) was a man-made condition caused by farmers
feeding material containing sheeps brains to cows. Cows are not
carnivores - but we forced them to be; and got our just desserts.

As ever, love of the $$ (or in this case ££) drove out all common sense.

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Chris