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2008-09-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-15 02:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Now we know wht most veggies are leftists.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-15 08:10|| 2008-09-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 This explains so much

Posted by john frum 2008-09-15 08:16|| 2008-09-15 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 One theory holds that man began his ascent from the African plains when he added [mobile] protein to his diet. Follow the game for the next meal. Figure out a better ~~mouse~~ meat trap for that next brain kick. Go from competing with other scavengers to getting the full dinner yourself required something more than running faster or being bigger than your next Happy Meal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-15 09:00|| 2008-09-15 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 What do you expect? Carnivores and omnivores have always been more intelligent than herbivores.

After all, how much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a blade of grass?

(yes, I read that somewhere.... don't remember where).

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-15 09:10|| 2008-09-15 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Help me out here, which brain is the one that shrinks?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-09-15 09:54|| 2008-09-15 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 One theory holds that man began his ascent from the African plains when he added [mobile] protein to his diet

he fact is that the vegan diet of the gorilla requires to spend a lot of time eating but also huege bellies. And the human brain uses a lot energy (so much that we have a special refrigerating system who is lacking in apes) it is not evident we could have got enough from plants.

Also Neanderthal got eighty per cent of its energy requirements from meat and only twenty from vegetables.

The fact is that whatever ate our simians ancestors (unlike gorillas, chimapnzes ae not strict vegetarians), Homo Sapiens has evolved to an omnivorous regime: he doesn't have the teeth, he doesn't have the intestine and he doesn't have the chemics of a vegetarian.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-15 09:56|| 2008-09-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Spot, you naughty scamp, you! ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-15 10:17|| 2008-09-15 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 There IS a God!

Posted by Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-09-15 10:46|| 2008-09-15 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 This explains so much about the Vegans.

I always thought they were brain damaged, now I have proof! (and these people can vote too)

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-15 10:59|| 2008-09-15 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 What does beer shrink ?

Posted by lollypop 2008-09-15 13:24|| 2008-09-15 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 The vegetarian diet shrinks the brain? Well, it simply isn't enough for good health.

Too much meat clogs the arteries and leads to heart attacks. The idea of having meat at every meal is new; and it's expensive, too.

The paterfamilias got a warning from the doctor, so I am doubling the vegetables and cutting the meat down to prevent gout, high blood pressure, and portliness. Moderation in all things.

I recommend the Mennonite Church cookbook,
"Extending the Table." No fuss, formulas, points; just good basic recipes.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-09-15 16:14|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-09-15 16:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Is arugula a vegetable?

Posted by tipper 2008-09-15 16:22|| 2008-09-15 16:22|| Front Page Top

#13 "with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage"

Maybe they started out with brain shrinkage? See, e.g., Pamela Anderson....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-15 17:13|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-09-15 17:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Well they had to take that extra mass from somewhere....

//DUCKS!

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-15 18:16|| 2008-09-15 18:16|| Front Page Top

#15 This is a real chicken and egg conundrum. Does vegetarianism shrink the brain or do shrunken gray matter lead to vegetarianism? The cow may have jumped over the moon, but it sure as heck didn't design the Saturn V.

Posted by ed 2008-09-15 18:39|| 2008-09-15 18:39|| Front Page Top

#16 After all, how much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a blade of grass?

Sounds like something a Kzin would say...(indeed, I think it's from Ringworld.)

Posted by Jonathan 2008-09-15 19:26|| 2008-09-15 19:26|| Front Page Top

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