Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat

Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down. From the article: 'Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive. Frank Kachanoff, who studies evolution at the university’s department of psychology, had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt. But in fact, his research showed the reverse is true.'" I can see all the "Make Steak, Not War!" protest signs already.

Comments

Hmmm

[The MAZZTer]

I wonder if it matters if you're vegetarian or not?

Re:Go tell that to PETA

[sznupi]

Yeah, such preference might have made evolutionary sense for most of time our species exists (plus those leading to us...), when meat was much more scarce.

Now...it seems like a lot of people still fall into that instinct, of course. Daily, many times a day... (similar with alcohol probably; out of three fruits: fresh, fermented and rotten - two are better. Which means beings with some preference towards alcohol might have slight evolutionary advantage, thanks to additional calories now and then. But now effects of distilled alcohol exploit that preference?)

ironically

[unity100]

vegetables are what is used to actually give taste to REAL dishes, even for dishes made with meat. because, meat, always tastes like, well, meat. you have to have vegetables to make something different out of it.

think : its no different than eating potatoes all the time. same and same. but, we are conditioned by the society to think that we are actually eating well, because, well, we are eating meat. this is reminiscent of the earlier centuries in which meat was hard to find, and therefore considered a richness in the table. its not like that anymore.