Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
There&#x27;s a good case to be made for humans being primarily meat eaters for much of our history and only eating plants as an alternative to starving - we certainly haven&#x27;t had time to evolve to eat a vegetarian diet. Agriculture has only been around for a small fraction of our history and the skeletal record clearly shows how disasterous it was for our health.<p>The current &#x27;plant based&#x27; fad diet recommendations are backed up by some very poor science and may be seriously unsuitable for humans and for children in particular, nutrition-wise. Animal agriculture is not even a major source of human emissions so to call for changes to our natural diet seems very premature.