Editor;
Re: Produce prices soar before Pattaya Vegetarian Festival (PM Friday, 11 October 2013) – If people want to be vegetarians then that is their right and more power to them. But those who claim that they are doing it for health reasons are defying science and evolution. Pandas will die if they can’t eat bamboo. Why? Because the evolved with that as their diet and their bodies now depend on it. Same with koala eating eucalyptus. Humans evolved eating meat. We evolved as predators and scavengers. We evolved a partial vegetarian diet to get us by when meat was scarce. But the high energy content of meat was absolutely critical to evolving our energy hungry brains. We evolved as meat eaters. Unless you think your are smarter than God, Buddha and Darwin, don’t try to tell us that people shouldn’t eat meat. If you don’t want to, don’t. But leave the rest of us alone.
John Nielson
