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- Early human ancestors didn't regularly eat meat https://www.sciencenews.org/article/early-human-ancestors-didnt-eat-meat 2 comments
- Early-human fossils called “small-brained, tree-climbing, meat-eating midgets” http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14569/1066/ 2 comments science
- Early Meat-Eating Human Ancestors Thrived While Vegetarian Died Out http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/08/early-meat-eating-human-ancestors-thrived-while-vegetarian-hominin-died-out/ 666 comments science
- Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide - Study by University of Adelaide https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/02/22/meat-eating-extends-human-life-expectancy-worldwide 385 comments worldnews
- Tool-making and meat-eating began 3.5 million years ago. Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ymfzhm8ao 3 comments science
- Human ancestors living in Central Europe between 320,000 and 300,000 years ago may have used wooden spears to fend off fearsome, meat-eating rivals — saber-toothed cats. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-hominids-used-wooden-spears-fend-big-cats 5 comments science
- Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide — “We wanted to look more closely at research that has thrown a negative spotlight on meat consumption in the human diet,” Dr You says. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/02/22/meat-eating-extends-human-life-expectancy-worldwide 347 comments science
- In what is believed to be a first for North America, biologists have discovered that meat-eating pitcher plants in Ontario’s wetlands consume not just bugs but also young salamanders. The team found almost one in five contained the juvenile amphibians, each about as long as a human finger. https://news.uoguelph.ca/2019/06/u-of-g-researchers-discover-meat-eating-plant-in-ontario/ 30 comments science
- Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-humanity-have-to-eat-meat/ 212 comments environment
- Proliferation of humans aided by eating meat. http://phys.org/news/2012-04-meat-earlier-weaning-humans-globe.html 120 comments science
- Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7 81 comments worldnews
- Humans First Used Tools to Eat Meat 250,000 Years Ago. http://time.com/4443060/humans-early-tools/ 394 comments history
- Human Evolution Aided by Eating Meat http://news.gather.com/viewarticle.action?articleid=281474981291289 6 comments science
- Meat Eating Behind Humans' Spreading Over the Globe http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120420/9619/carnivory-evolution-humankind-population-research.htm 33 comments science
- Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought https://www.popsci.com/science/eating-meat-human-evolution-study/ 1431 comments science
- "Eating Animals the Nice Way" by Jeff McMahan - The "humane" meat debate http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/joomlatools-files/docman-files/eating_animals_the_nice_way.pdf 1289 comments philosophy
- [Help]Right To Eat Human Meat : A new legislation is needed . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/german-cannibal-cop_n_6984004.html?ir=India 48 comments india
- Why West Africans keep eating bush meat, which could be Ebola's bridge from animals to humans http://www.smh.com.au/world/why-west-africans-keep-eating-bush-meat-which-could-be-ebolas-bridge-from-animals-to-humans-20140806-100u73.html 8 comments worldnews
- How eating meat, cooking made us human - Technology & science - LiveScience | NBC News http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49888012/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.ukqkymx1f8e 62 comments science
- Study: The Less Meat You Eat the Better for Human Health and the Environment https://thebeet.com/study-reducing-meat-from-diet-has-clear-personal-and-environmental-benefits/ 785 comments environment
- Why do other mammals not get food poisoning from eating raw meats yet humans do? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6kv9l8/why_do_other_mammals_not_get_food_poisoning_from/ 24 comments askscience
- Neanderthals diet: 80% meat, 20% vegetables - Isotope studies shed a new light on the eating habits of the prehistoric humans. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s1040618215011829 146 comments science
- What's wrong with eating dog meat? A canceled dog meat festival in Seoul was geared toward showing the humane, sanitary side of the industry. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/dog-meat-seoul-animal-rights 11 comments worldnews
- If eating other cows gives cows mad cow disease, does eating human meat drive people to some sort of mad human disease? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6prc0v/if_eating_other_cows_gives_cows_mad_cow_disease/ 13 comments askscience
- Cat Man - the human 'tiger' who enjoys climbing trees and eats raw meat every day | Mail Online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052934/cat-man--human-tiger-enjoys-climbing-trees-eats-raw-meat-day.html 4 comments reddit.com
- "If you are eating meat and you do not know exactly where it came from, chances are that many human beings were exploited to produce it." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/17/105817/124 8 comments reddit.com
- Eating carbs may have given human ancestors a big brain boost: According to a new study published in the Quarterly Review of Biology, cooked meat and veggies shouldn't get all the credit. Without carbohydrates, it argues, the switch to cooked food wouldn't have packed nearly as big of a punch. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/07/eating-carbs-may-have-given-human-ancestors-a-big-brain-boost/ 5 comments science
- Early human ancestors didn’t regularly eat meat | A meat-rich diet may have not emerged before the evolution of other groups like Homo https://www.sciencenews.org/article/early-human-ancestors-didnt-eat-meat 119 comments science
- Give up eating cow meat, be good human being, says RSS leader Indresh Kumar http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/give-up-eating-cow-meat-be-good-human-being-says-rss-leader-indresh-kumar/ 41 comments india
- "760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals. This could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat." http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/george-monbiot-on-food-prices.php 2 comments reddit.com
- A new taste for eating elephant meat--everything from trunks to sex organs--has emerged in Thailand, posing a new threat to their survival -"Poachers take away sex organs & trunks ... for human consumption." Some meat is eaten raw to improve sexual prowess. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=145898230 5 comments worldnews
- To feed the growing human population—projected to reach about 10 billion by 2050—while curbing planet-warming emissions to ward off climate catastrophe, people across the globe must significantly cut back on eating meat from cows, sheep, and goats, according to a new study out Wednesday. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/05/slash-meat-consumption-and-avert-climate-catastrophe-says-new-blueprint-sustainable 616 comments worldnews
- Richard Dawkins wants to eat human flesh-- long $TSN(they are doing lab-grown meat or something) https://www.inverse.com/article/41862-richard-dawkins-wants-to-eat-lab-grown-human-meat 7 comments wallstreetbets
- The EU has been accused of an “indefensible” approach to human health and the climate crisis in spending tens of millions of euros each year on campaigns to reverse the decline in meat eating and trying to rebut so-called “fake news” on the mistreatment of animals bred for food. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/14/eu-spending-tens-of-millions-of-euros-a-year-to-promote-meat-eating 8 comments worldnews
- 'First You Eat Meat, Then Meat Eats You', Union Minister Maneka Gandhi Says Humans Are 'Natural Vegetarians'. Studies done over the last three decades have shown, with empirical data, that meat is bad for human body, Maneka said. https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/first-you-eat-meat-then-meat-eats-you-union-minister-maneka-gandhi-says-humans-a/301898 8 comments india
- First You Eat Meat, Then Meat Eats You: Maneka Gandhi: The women and child development minister was speaking at the launch of a film 'The Evidence-Meat Kills', directed by Mayank Jain, that scientifically explores the effects of meat consumption on human body. http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/first-you-eat-meat-then-meat-eats-you-maneka-gandhi-1752003 8 comments india
- Sorry, vegans: Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains. Two studies suggest that eating meat and cooking food made us human, enabling the brains of our prehuman ancestors to grow dramatically over a few million years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sorry-vegans-eating-meat-and-cooking-food-is-how-humans-got-their-big-brains/2012/11/26/3d4d36de-326d-11e2-bb9b-288a310849ee_story.html?tid=sm_btn_reddit 223 comments science
- Tiny 'meat-loving' marine creatures 'eat' [human] teenager's legs at Melbourne beach. Experts left stunned by possible sea lice bites after Sam Kanizay emerged from the beach at Brighton with severe bleeding. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/07/tiny-meat-loving-marine-creatures-eat-teenagers-legs-at-melbourne-beach 391 comments worldnews
- Cows are herbivores and are designed to eat only grass. Factory produced, or grain-fed, cattle have an abnormally acidic digestive tract and often produce a strain of acid resistant E. coli which causes illness or death in humans. Apparently it's a risk worth taking to the meat industry. http://www.marlerblog.com/2009/08/articles/lawyer-oped/the-meat-industry-will-never-solve-the-e-coli-o157h7-problem-until-it-stops-blaming-the-consumer/ 81 comments reddit.com
- New study questions the importance of meat eating in shaping human evolution. The increase in archaeological evidence for meat eating after after the appearance of Homo erectus is likely due to a greater sampling of that period. https://www.pnas.org/content/119/5/e2115540119 7 comments science