Vegans vs Carnivores: the Culture War's Strangest Frontier
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The Rhetorical Center of the Peter Article
The Peter article is implicitly invoking this diet with its claimed health benefits in order to debunk it. The implication of the article which only gets stronger as the article goes on is that our pre-civilized paleolithic ancestors were herbivorous. This opening salvo is about as close as the author gets to an explicit lie but this essentialist implication is subtly laced through the rest of the article. As we remember from the Atlantic articles account the paleolithic era marks the exact era when our ancestors became devoted meaty to it so the Peter author is factually wrong to claim that our paleo ancestors were Herbivorous.
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