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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

d_r

(6,907 posts)

5. yep

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 15, 2015, 11:04 PM

Sep 2015

they ate what the could get. And the reason that sweet stuff and carbs taste so good to us now is that they were like a gold mine for our ancestors (who were the ones that lived long enough to have children that lived long enough etc.)

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