Since we evolved by eating meat, wouldnt going vegan be bad for our intelligence and evolution?

"Since we evolved by eating meat, wouldnt going vegan be bad for our intelligence and evolution?"

Since the being of our evolution, more than meat has played a role our current state of evolution. We also can't say what would be bad for our intelligence either. We don't know what the affect on future generations will be for intelligence. To make a straight statement would be founded on speculative theory, and speculative conjecture. I can speculate and make both conjectures, and possibly even off a couple of theories. Yes humans are in fact omnivores, something I've seen MOST vegetarians, and MOST vegans state. I eat meat, as a part of my diet, and fish three to four times a week, for clarification as to my own dietary habits. Only a very SMALL minority, from either group, will claim otherwise.

That said, there are other primates that also use tools. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are also users of tools. Chimpanzees, and bonobos, have both been seen using branches as clubs, and along with gorillas, sticks to go "fishing for ants and termites. But then other animals have also been seen using tools as well. But what really enhanced our intelligence, and our evolution to it's current state, was learning how to use fire, and to use it to cook foods with. That unlocked more nutrients,by breaking down the cells walls, in the foods our predecessors ate, that helped more to allow our intelligence to expand. However as pointed out, if the proper nutrients aren't gotten, then as with any other species, we would die out.

No one knows what direction, things will take with our evolution, in the future though. There's a veritable myriad of possibilities, of what can happen, as well as various possible directions that evolution can take us. We could even through the artifice of science, evolve through further development of knowledge, on nutrition, evolve to to where we no longer not only cease to eat meat, but vegetation as well, but to growing cultures of yeasts, that will contain all of the nutrients, that are currently known as essential.There are hundreds if possibly even being thousands of phytonutrients, that in the future, will prove to be essential micronutrients. We could also in the future also evolve in three other possible dietary directions, as well. Some to a more herbivorous diet, some to a more carnivorous diet, and some remaining omnivorous diet.

Now I see the one favored argument some like to offer about intelligence. That's the one, being vegetarians, being on average, more intelligent, than those who eat meat. However this only holds true, by the inclusion of those who eat meat, whose intelligence, falls below the mean average of ninety. If we remove those whose intelligence that falls below that mark, then that claim loses it's validity, and it's point of argument. At that point, the playing field becomes level, and equal, on the intelligence level. Which is something that SOME vegetarians, and SOME vegans dislike being pointed out. Which makes it a quid pro quo argument. The same applies though to your argument/claim. This becomes even what a friend called the "if dog rabbit," or a bit less eloquently put, "if the dog hadn't stopped to relieve itself, it might have caught the rabbit."

Just because a small number of vegans rant like they have brain damage does not mean vegan eating is bad.

The argument about evolution is one of the better ones. Vegan eating is not more healthy than any other well designed plan; it's only more healthy than junk food. But eating lower on the food pyramid is beneficial to society even though it is not beneficial to the individual. Thus the vegan movement pushes to evolve our species to eat lower on the food pyramid.

Your argument is flawed I'm sorry. CKNGBBLS is 100% correct with his answer. But getting down to brass tacks, and I keep saying this. If a person whishing to change lifestyles, and go vegetarian. Then, the said person needs to do their due diligence, and proper research, to take in all the nutrients from vegetables, that they would have eating meat.

I don't think having to pop pills, is a good idea to change lifestyles.

What tools? Go back to early man, what tools, all they had was a branch from a tree turned into a club, and a stick worn on rocks to make some type of spear. There were was no metal in early man, just what was around them.

we didn't evolve by eating meat. we have always eaten meat. the oldest remains ever found show signs of eating meat as do the oldest camp sites and digs.

As long as a person gets all the nutrients, no they won't change our evolution. Those that don't get the right nutrients will of course die out, like any other species.

You are really over thinking it.

Well this theory definitely doesn't apply to lions since they're not evolving like us..

Yes. Humans became the dominant species because we learned to cook and eat animals.

No, it wouldn't be. It's theorized that one of the reasons we got the brain we got is by our non-human ancestors eating buttloads of nutrition (from meat), which gave us a brain that takes a lot of power. Eating the same amount of nutrition everyday, which would kill us if we avoided, would not suddenly somehow shrink our brains merely because that exact same nutrition comes from vegetation.

We no longer need to consume meat, anymore than we need to huddle in caves, around a fire. Technology has allowed us to move beyond it.

I would ask this question to a cat

we did not evolve... by eating meat... what are you talking about!? we evolved through random genetic mutations, this would still happen if we ate meat or not...

Veganism is the next higher stage of evolution. When I became Vegan I was elevated spiritually and physically. Veganism granted me great insight into nutrition, the environment and conscience living. Going Raw Vegan deeply and profoundly honed my willpower, discipline, creativeness and health. Veganism is good for health, the planet & the animals, meaning it is the most logical biological advancement a human would need.