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Were Our Ancestors Meat Eaters Millions of Years Ago?

October 8 2012 10:56 in Meat, Paleo Diets

When did our ancestors start eating meat? An exciting archeological find supports the idea that we needed meat to survive as early as 1,5 million years ago. That means our ancestors had probably been eating meat regularly for a long time prior to that date.

The piece of bone above comes from a two years old child that may have died from lack of (vitamin B12) meat millions of years ago. Thus veganism may have been dangerous for a long time!

Sci-news.com: 1.5-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragment Shows Oldest Evidence of Regular Meat Consumption

Here’s the study behind the news.

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What Does Whale Taste Like?

June 25 2012 7:47 in Meat

When on Iceland recently I had a local speciality for dinner: Whale. Interesting experience.

When the waiter came with the food I first thought there’d been some mistake in the kitchen: Continue Reading →

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Meat, Pseudoscience and Why People Who Eat Their Placebo Are Healthier

March 15 2012 19:13 in Gary Taubes, Meat

Don’t worry too much about the health scares in the media. Here’s a very nice blog post by Gary Taubes about how uncertain the observational science behind them really is:

Taubes blogg: Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat (a short post, for Taubes)

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Do Unhealthy Meat Eaters Live Shorter Lives?

March 14 2012 20:09 in Meat

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So it’s time for another health scare in the media. Another thing that ‘shortens life’, this time red meat. But don’t worry: as usual it’s just a new uncertain observational study.

Today’s warnings are more transparent than usual. Meat eaters do indeed die slightly younger, but what do you think they do besides eating meat? Continue Reading →

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