[armchairhacker]

The problem with that questions is that it’s really controversial and “natural” doesn’t really mean anything. There are all kinds of nutrition studies It’s like asking “is Joe Biden a good president?”

The best you can do is read articles saying why meat is good and look at articles saying why meat is bad. Usually everything from one article which isn’t directly contradicted by the other article is fact, and vice versa.

[freeduck]

Well I mean "natural" as in the nature that created us.

https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/childbearing...

And then some science to back it up.

[freeduck]

Is this article trustworthy?

[rsj_hn]

That humans are naturally omnivores, eating both meat and plants, is not controversial in the slightest.

[freeduck]

It is in politics. Thats kind of not this forum. Yet it sort of is

[rsj_hn]

I understand that vegetarians have a moral code that says not to eat meat, which is fine. I'm not saying that's bad or they should change what they believe. But as a historical question of human diet, there is no controversy.

We have cave paintings all over the world of men chasing large animals. That wasn't a game of tag, they are going to eat them. We know the development of cattle culture, fishing societies, etc, all over the world. Even in India, the one traditional society in which a sizable minority (%25) doesn't eat meat, there is widespread evidence of meat-eating prior to the introduction of vegetarianism by the Jains in ~500 BC. But ancient Hindu civilization is much older than that, and prior to this ate meat (and sacrificed animals). All other ancient civilizations: Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Central American societies -- all ate meat, just as their predecessors, the hunter gatherers ate meat.

It is of course not the only thing people ate -- meat in the ancient world was much harder to come by than today and diets varied greatly. But we humans are omnivores, and if people think this is controversial, then they are refusing to face facts about our history.