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
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