• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Look I’m all for the idea that we eat too much meat currently and all, but are mice really good analogs for humans in this instance? I’m not a scientist of any sort, so I really don’t know, but it seems to me like a creature that doesn’t naturally eat, like, any red meat would be a bad analog here.

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      1 day ago

      Humans also don’t generally eat poison. But the mice in this study were poisoned with DSS after eating meat. Maybe meat is not the real culprit here…

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        9 hours ago

        I mean alcohol is poison, we have consumed that substance for longer than we(globally) have been eating tomatoes, potatoes, coffee and refined sugar.

        Multiple cultures around the world have independently invented some form of alcohol

        And other species also routinely ingests poison for pleasure.

        Dolphins getting high on pufferfish toxins, Elephants getting absolutely shit faced on fermented fruits such as amarula