Ever since ancient times man has been keeping chickens. The ancestor of the chicken is the red junglefowl, which originated in India. The Indians, being superbly intelligent, domesticated this animal so that they could have them kill each other for their amusement. The Romans did it better.
(From an Email Correspondence on Veganism)
It does not matter if he is a scientist, he quotes real vigorous scientific research, while Doctor Campbell, although being a scientist, has no rigorous research to support his claims. The China study has been highly criticized for assuming correlation implies causation, among other things. Declaring that you don't want to hear what someone has to say because they are not a scientist is borderline ad hominem. Only listening to scientists is argumentum ab auctoritate, as is bringing up a list of influential vegans. Scientific research must stand on its own merit, not the merit of who is presenting it. No one is claiming you are going to lose intelligence simply from not eating meat, what is being claimed is that over millions of years meat played an important role in the development of human intelligence. To claim that that is false simply because an African tribe survives without meat is a strawman at best. What this does suggest is that if meat is taken out of the human diet, intelligence will be lost over millions of years. Socialism is often misdefined. Socialism is nothing more, and nothing less, than workers' ownership of the means of production. Capitalism is nothing more, and nothing less, than a ruling class's ownership of the means of production. In Canada, and especially in the United States, socialism is frequently misdefined. Misdefinitions of these terms are often even taught in high schools; with socialism always being associated with more government and free services, and capitalism with less government and less free services. This is quite wrong, as many forms of socialism would mean less government, such as anarchism and market socialism. (Even Marxism, which has historically led to massive bureaucracies and the exponential enlarging of the state apparatus, holds the abolition of the state as its ultimate goal.) On the same note, there are forms of capitalism necessitating larger government, such as fascism and Francoism.
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