Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!sra From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: Re: diet and evolution Message-ID: <912@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 08:14:53 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.912 Posted: Wed Aug 14 08:14:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:08:41 EDT References: <3589@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Organization: Univ. of Chicago, Dept. of Physics Lines: 19 Summary: In article <3589@decwrl.UUCP> devi@maisha.DEC (Gita L. Devi PKO1/D1 223-7046) writes: > >It's been said that a meat-based diet is a major contributing factor in man's >aggressiveness and war-like behavior (I know that there will be disagreement >on this point). > I have also seen this statement, and think it is a good argument against eating meat (if you accept it as being true). Compare the Sikhs, who regularly eat meat and make up a disproportionate part of the Indian military, and the rest of the Indian population which is primarily vegetarian. However, an Indian I work with also accepts this statement, but thinks it is a good argument FOR eating meat; he feels that the Indian people are too passive as a result of their vegetarian diet (the result being British colonization, etc., etc.). Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra