• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    yes, of course we ate lots of plants as well, that was never disputed. We were hunters and gatherers. The point is meat has absolutely been a significant part of our diets for millions of years (the exact ratio depending on the environment humans found themselves in). it is well documented by many direct lines of evidence as i laid out above.

    I am not saying that hunting didn’t happen (it definitely did).

    it didn’t just “happen” like once in a while. we are/were probably the best hunters ever seen on planet earth. we basically wiped out global megafauna over the last 1.5 million years.

    I am just saying that more recent research is painting a very different picture of the level of consumption of it

    what exactly do you mean by “very different picture”? that’s an extremely vague statement that could mean almost anything.