Veganism Isn’t Natural

It’s time to settle the debate that pits bad science against worse philosophy

M. Murphy
Published in
8 min readJul 15, 2020

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As a vegan who likes to preach veganism — but perhaps that’s redundant —meat-eaters often tell me that “we evolved to be omnivores.” To their surprise, I agree with them. Though I am a vegan, my academic training is in human evolutionary biology, and I cannot let my philosophy hijack the science…

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