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It's kinda funny that the link about the idiocy of the Paleolithic Diet came up, because I was going to rant about the "raw food" idiots anyway. Well, not so much rant as point out that the raw food diet is supremely idiotic. I keep hearing insinuations that cooking food destroys nutrients. Well, if that were true, then we wouldn't have stopped eating raw food. If cooking food destroyed nutrients, there would be no evolutionary advantage to cooking food. In fact, it would be an evolutionary DISadvantage if it were true. So anyone who cooked their food would have died off and we'd all be eating raw food now. On top of that, we'd probably still be cavemen.
It really irritates me when people go on about their dietary choices as though they're superior. If you want to eat raw food, or nothing but vegetables, or even dirt, I don't care. I just don't want to hear how "amazing" the diet is and how "superior" it is. If veganism were truly superior in any meaningful way, EVERYONE would be a vegan, because then it would be evolutionarily adventitious to be a vegan. If raw food diet was truly superior, the same would hold true.
But the simple fact of the matter is, we humans got our big brains and our place as the dominant mammalian predator on Earth because we cook our food and eat meat. And it's also a simple, inalienable fact that these fad diets like veganism and the paleolithic diet and the raw food diet, all of them will go out the fucking window if civilization ever crumbles or even gets a significant enough jolt. Because the ONLY reason you're able to get away with these fad diets is because you live in a civilization that makes it easy to be on those diets. If you had to find or grow your own goddamn food, you'd soon find that nuts and berries and vegetables are insufficient. Your body will demand more protein than a vegan diet can provide, more calories than a paleolithic diet can provide. The ONLY reason these fad diets give you enough calories is because you live in a society where someone else grows and gathers and packages your food for you; a society where your lazy rich ass can afford to buy expensive, inefficient protein sources.
Because here are the facts: veganism is a diet for rich snobs, or poor snobs who are extremely delusional and especially determined to fuck themselves over. It's almost like a fucking drug habit, in that it takes a lot more money to support than poor people can afford without pouring more money into it than they can really afford. It's not quite as bad as a drug habit, in that it doesn't cost SO much that poor vegans have to resort to crime, but if it were much more expensive than it is, who knows?
Which of course means that once your privileged ass finds itself in a situation where you have to get your own damned food, you're going to find that nuts and other high protein veggies are not always easy to find or get at. You will begin to starve, and then those fwuffy wittle amnimals you love so much will start looking more and more delicious, until you either die from your stubbornness or you start killing Bambi's mom for her delicious venison in order to stay alive.
So just keep that in mind, all you fad dieters. Hope and pray that society doesn't change significantly enough that you have to give up your precious, snobbish fad diet in order to survive. Because if it does, you will. It's in our blood. You can piss and moan all you like about how much like people animals are, but in the end you're a fucking predator at heart, too. We all are. It is an unavoidable fact of existence.
Okay, so that DID kind of become a rant after all.
And yea gods, don't even get me STARTED on freegans. Digging your food out of the garbage is for homeless people. Don't be stealing their food, you snobbish privileged FUCKS!
It's kinda funny that the link about the idiocy of the Paleolithic Diet came up, because I was going to rant about the "raw food" idiots anyway. Well, not so much rant as point out that the raw food diet is supremely idiotic. I keep hearing insinuations that cooking food destroys nutrients. Well, if that were true, then we wouldn't have stopped eating raw food. If cooking food destroyed nutrients, there would be no evolutionary advantage to cooking food. In fact, it would be an evolutionary DISadvantage if it were true. So anyone who cooked their food would have died off and we'd all be eating raw food now. On top of that, we'd probably still be cavemen.
It really irritates me when people go on about their dietary choices as though they're superior. If you want to eat raw food, or nothing but vegetables, or even dirt, I don't care. I just don't want to hear how "amazing" the diet is and how "superior" it is. If veganism were truly superior in any meaningful way, EVERYONE would be a vegan, because then it would be evolutionarily adventitious to be a vegan. If raw food diet was truly superior, the same would hold true.
But the simple fact of the matter is, we humans got our big brains and our place as the dominant mammalian predator on Earth because we cook our food and eat meat. And it's also a simple, inalienable fact that these fad diets like veganism and the paleolithic diet and the raw food diet, all of them will go out the fucking window if civilization ever crumbles or even gets a significant enough jolt. Because the ONLY reason you're able to get away with these fad diets is because you live in a civilization that makes it easy to be on those diets. If you had to find or grow your own goddamn food, you'd soon find that nuts and berries and vegetables are insufficient. Your body will demand more protein than a vegan diet can provide, more calories than a paleolithic diet can provide. The ONLY reason these fad diets give you enough calories is because you live in a society where someone else grows and gathers and packages your food for you; a society where your lazy rich ass can afford to buy expensive, inefficient protein sources.
Because here are the facts: veganism is a diet for rich snobs, or poor snobs who are extremely delusional and especially determined to fuck themselves over. It's almost like a fucking drug habit, in that it takes a lot more money to support than poor people can afford without pouring more money into it than they can really afford. It's not quite as bad as a drug habit, in that it doesn't cost SO much that poor vegans have to resort to crime, but if it were much more expensive than it is, who knows?
Which of course means that once your privileged ass finds itself in a situation where you have to get your own damned food, you're going to find that nuts and other high protein veggies are not always easy to find or get at. You will begin to starve, and then those fwuffy wittle amnimals you love so much will start looking more and more delicious, until you either die from your stubbornness or you start killing Bambi's mom for her delicious venison in order to stay alive.
So just keep that in mind, all you fad dieters. Hope and pray that society doesn't change significantly enough that you have to give up your precious, snobbish fad diet in order to survive. Because if it does, you will. It's in our blood. You can piss and moan all you like about how much like people animals are, but in the end you're a fucking predator at heart, too. We all are. It is an unavoidable fact of existence.
Okay, so that DID kind of become a rant after all.
And yea gods, don't even get me STARTED on freegans. Digging your food out of the garbage is for homeless people. Don't be stealing their food, you snobbish privileged FUCKS!
