[delfinom]

Uh, humans for the majority of existence have lived off grains, veg, fruits and only some meat. Meat being a everyday thing is purely a 20th century invention, and on that list of meat being available once in awhile, beef was very low on the list, pig was king.

You are starting to sound like one of those fragile male ego types that rants about soy having _plant estrogen_.

[profeatur]

>humans for the majority of existence… This is not globally true. Animal products have always been the most important part of the Northern European diet. Earlier, nomadic herders in Asia and Europe ate primarily animal products (while famously conquering every sedentary civilization they came across). Ötzi, the 5300 year old mummy found in the alps, had a stomach full of meat. Going back further, hunter gatherers traditionally derived most of their calories from animal products, and Neanderthals had a completely carnivore diet.

[watwut]

It heavily depends on place and period. Humans also lived a lot from eggs and milk products.

That being said, we are bigger and stronger. Humans suffered from malnutrition a lot. Many previously normal malnutrition caused diseases are basically nonexistent now.