Were our ancestors Veg or Non-Veg?

Turns out that the answer to the quintessentially Indian question "Were our ancestors Veg or Non-Veg?" is far more interesting than its obviously provocative ability to evoke angry fights on social media.
The factual answer of course is...(go watch the video 😅)
But when you really dig deep into the answer, what you find is a fascinating story of what
makes us human
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[@PremRaj-ks3fz]

My entire family was suffering from B12 and Vit D deficiency due to veg diet. Most of the content Krish made really saved us ,,now moving forward with certain changes in diet..

[@krishashok]

Great to hear!

[@paperdoc1]

Fix the root cause with veg diet rather than moving. Taking B12 supplements and non veg is same. B12 deficiency means something wrong in your cycle

[@spinachtriangle]

Most animals are now B12 deficient as well as that comes from bacteria living in healthy soils. Most of the intensively reared animals (99% of the animal agro supply) are supplemented B12, so you are just consuming the supplemented meat. Omega 3 as well, the fish get it from algae and you get loads of Omega 3 algae sources. There is a lot of research that points to all cause mortality reducing with a plant based diet. Also as you say you were on a veg diet, this means you were having milk correct? There should have been loads of B12 in your milk as those poor mothers are supplemented with loads of B12, antibiotics and growth hormones.

[@imacarguy4065]

There is B12 in a vegetarian diet. Especially the type Indians follow.

[@spinachtriangle]

@ there is B12 in milk and eggs. No plant based source contains B12. I really don’t understand how the word vegetarian was coined as it is proper mental gymnastics. Production of milk and eggs cause as much if not more suffering than the meat industry. Which is why the beef ban in some parts of India is quite mind boggling as the milk industry causes more harm to the mother cow.

[@Master_the_cut]

The real issue now lies in the excessive consumption of carbohydrates or carbslopping combined with a lack of physical activity to burn off that energy, leading to problems such as diabetes and the skinny-fat condition among Indians.

[@imacarguy4065]

Excessive consumption of EXCESS simple carbs like sugar. Not simply carbs like chickpeas or soya. Also, excess fat in the diet. More calories = excess fat which leads to diabetes.

[@Psartz]

​@@imacarguy4065yes,Finally, someone talking sense.

[@Psartz]

The initial claim is inaccurate. A comprehensive analysis of nutritional science uncovers several key insights. First, carbohydrates do not directly cause diabetes, as extensively supported by research studies. Additionally, the conversion of carbohydrates into body fat is inefficient, with a rate of just 15-18%. In striking contrast, dietary fats convert into body fat with an efficiency of 80-90%. This disparity contributes to the prevalence of lean physiques among those following a vegan diet. Furthermore, fats are significantly more calorie-dense, providing 9 kcal per gram compared to 4 kcal per gram for carbohydrates. While insulin does play a role in fat storage, the majority of stored fat in the body originates from dietary fats and oils. Therefore, by reducing the intake of fats and oils, one can expect noticeable changes in just a few weeks.

[@Psartz]

​​@@imacarguy4065 thats right.

[@paulhall1612]

my semen has a lot of protein if you are interested

[@shantanuzodpe9880]

i had chicken liver in the morning and eggs at night and my dad was like " we're humans beta not RAKSHAS " 😂, i was like i ate all that exactly because im a human lol

[@krishashok]

Haha

[@Rajeshsori07]

😂

[@WranglerDude]

The deva and asura paradigm in our mythology is the biggest display of racism

[@harsha1306]

What an amazing ending to a well researched educational video.

[@krishashok]

Thank you!

[@MallikarjunReddy-b2q]

They were not vegan but they were not nearly carnivore level non veg. He clearly admitted that the big brain is due to fermented food. Padma Shri Dr. Khader Vali has been telling that the humans were eating fermented porridge for decades. Humans gradually became vegetarian with milk products in diet. Now, they are becoming vegan for added environmental and ethical reasons

[@Neel71]

If this is even a matter of debate, then I have doubt about the "giant brain" of some members of my species🙂

[@missingpatel7349]

Eh why not, that's a really interesting question imo. Debating encourages looking for answers to the really intricate questions. If only we stop worrying about sounding stupid.

[@Enigma-t6n]

​@@missingpatel7349but if that sounding is almost at the level of whatsapp uni geniuses that Learn things from forwards or IT cell broke bro Day quota messages Gibberish., Then yeah calling out, seeing them for what they are kinda easily filters out whom we need to teach / worry about.

[@PavanMehta]

they should thank their ancestors for that big brain. But their descendants won't be able to thank them for sure

[@arjunratnadev]

dude they never want to talk about "ancestors" in terms science which is actually "Evolution" because then their whole senseless fantasy narratives fall flat

[@gangadharhiremath7306]

Gravity bends the space and light ray. Religious/cultural dogma bends the intellect irrespective of brain size.

[@sumitraturwankar9804]

Thanx for correcting my concepte of veg, non-veg spirituality to be open to science I was suffering vit B-12 deficiency now i started eating non-fertilised cellulose fortified eggs Following Buddha the principle of non violence is conditional in this conditioned world as defined by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar that prerequisite of non-violence is to differentiate "will to kill n need to kill " "Try n be less n less harmful" Intention of strong wisdom- compassion. towards eco system! Is very much endorsed in my existence....

[@krishashok]

Thank you for sharing your experience!

[@ultronde4958]

@@sumitraturwankar9804 You can get vegan B12 supplements. You don't have to abuse or torture any animals for that. Just saying because you're concerned with the ethics.

[@4m0d]

you can also use biofermented b12 supplements. I appreciate your mindset of harm reduction but a planned vegan diet is the most aligned with this.

[@sayanchatterjee5826]

the last 2 minutes were savage 🤣

[@ashokkumar-se5sl]

VEGAN DIET HINDU RASHTER KA PROGANDA H

[@krishashok]

Haha

[@Pleindevie3]

🤣🤣🤣

[@narinderchander]

I think I need a prebiotic drink! 👨‍🦰👨‍🦰

[@someshwarrao42]

Vegetarian food has always been a matter of convenience. Cultivating was easier than hunting, so there was a shift. Most shifts in human behavior have largely depended on the path of least resistance. Even now. Do you think you would rather be watching this video on KZbin or go out, buy a CD, and watch it using a CD player if that was the alternative?

[@krishashok]

Indeed

[@saralatharani3649]

Vitamin k. Only we can get by taking meat only

[@Lona0909]

​@@saralatharani3649One medium cucumber (with skin) typically provides about 20% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin K

[@sandy666ification]

😂😂😂😂 bro what are you even talking about. Agriculture is 100x times more difficult than hunting.

[@Palette-without-paint]

@@sandy666ification Nah, I guess cultivation makes more sense if we have fertile land, and given a required amount of social stability what ensure I won't be evicted from my land too often. I wonder why we Indians value place and believe in large weddings, probably to survive in large social groups, whereas nomads eats more meat, lived in smaller groups, became good in flighting, had easier time in hunting and battling other groups of nomad. It's all in package I guess.

[@AnanthramEL]

Thanks!

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@rajashreedcosta2669]

Even today Some artic people eat raw meat...raw horse meet raw beef raw deer meat... it's their delicacy

[@Psartz]

Is that considered healthy? They consume food out of necessity. We do not live under the same conditions.

[@thunderpokemon2456]

Yes but eating raw is suitable in artic as bacteria cant survive in freezing cold

[@vish3161]

Great video as usual. Vegetarianism as a concept could have only evolved as sections of society became prosperous enough to say "no" to certain foods. Our ancestors did not have that luxury ..

[@krishashok]

Indeed

[@sageofsixpaths98]

Jainism started it most probably as it's much older than Buddhism. And i dont think they all were prosperous, except the Kings

[@ahampurushahasmi6040]

@@sageofsixpaths98 Not necessarily; vegetarian “factions” can be found in early Indian societies and societies across the globe. Even the Vedas, while they don’t endorse a particular diet, talk extensively about care of animals, so much so that many Hindu reformists use Vedic verses to argue for vegetarianism. Nobody “starts” philosophies; Jain practices of ahimsa likely evolved out of pre-existing vegetarian philosophies that were popularized during the time of Mahavira.

[@vish3161]

Prosperity is relative. India was a tropical, green country with a variety of edible plants and so they were relatively prosperous. This is also what provoked invaders from the colder and drier north and west.

[@thunderpokemon2456]

​@@sageofsixpaths98 he his saying true saying no to food while starving and being picky could stupid for those people thats why they ate what they had and growing crop was not a easy thing.

[@yourfellowhumanbeing2323]

I got distracted of a second and we reached networking😤😂

[@aryanvani6931]

Dayumm.. I am always awes-trucked by the quality of content and the script you bring on the table in each video! would love to know your research and writing process if possible.

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@den0]

Hi Krish, great video as always. Thank you for defending the scientific process while also explaining a few food related facts.

[@ultronde4958]

Good explanation, when people say 'our' ancestors, they mean different things. Some goes back to the time when humans were living without civilization, some goes back to the time we were a different species, some just goes back to the time of Buddha and Mahavira. If we go back we can see vegetarian (or mostly plant eating omnivore) before we branched out from our surviving ape cousins. After that for long period of time, we ate what we found edible because the foods that humans ate near the equator is not the food that humans are near the poles. Only after we created technologies to create large quantities and varieties of foods ourselves, we got confused what to eat (maybe that's a good thing).

[@RobertdeNobili-eu2pv]

Brother did a nice work the debate exist for no bloody reason....

[@medinaveen]

Our ancestors might be once (or came from) single cell organism which did not ate non-veg 😂😂😂

[@krishashok]

Single celled organisms are other cells

[@ExploreWithAvi]

*ate Yes you are right

[@Psartz]

​@@krishashokPythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vincent van Gogh, Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Saint Francis of Assisi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sagan, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Confucius, Epictetus, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Albert Schweitzer, H.G. Wells, Annie Besant, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Theophrastus, Hypatia, John Wesley, Beatrix Potter.

[@Psartz]

​@@krishashok☝️Above all the greatest minds in human history were vegans or vegetarians. Most of them openly shared their views about compassion toward sentient life.

[@abhishek8977]

Thanks

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@pranav1256]

I would really love a conversation between you and Acharya Prashant, it would be really interesting.

[@nolee57885]

You have answered a question that has been an ongoing debate for a long time, thank you for your research and for sharing it with us.

[@varunb7228]

Wonderfully explained! Loved the analogy of sounds, data centres and how we are able to use our brains 😀…one question on the counter side…over these millions of years, why is it that it’s only the human beings from among numerous terrestrials that got the chance to eat cooked meat via forest fires to begin with? How come no other species never ever got the chance to eat cooked meat and hence benefit from a comparatively larger brain…and lastly how come our primate cousins who share ~98% of our DNA, and are known to have the same ancestors as us, are still largely vegetarians? So given this ancestry, are we vegetarians from the beginning? 😀

[@narinderchander]

👏👏👏 Well done! Best explanation I have ever seen of the Veg or Non Veg argument.

[@TheRakeshgautam]

Definitely humans were nonveg....but hunting any animal is not an easy task...so they used to consume leaf and insects.....cooking was very very late phenomenon....surely once we learned cooking humans body started developing itself.

[@fzxgmf]

Wow! I loved the ending😂

[@sadpotato2k]

i didn't understand what he said at the end. what did he say?

[@thinkroses]

It was savage 😂

[@Chronicallyonline-d9h]

What's sadder is the perpetrator of this veg nonveg debate is mostly educated urban class...

[@krishashok]

Yep

[@PavanMehta]

To all the vegetarians who think humans have always been eating like that, pls go and search what harrapan people ate

[@deb2607]

Saar hindoos pure veg saar

[@wizdroid]

Saar IRS microsoft call center saar

[@Psartz]

The appeal to nature fallacy posits that practices engaged in by our ancestors should be emulated in contemporary times. However, this assumption is flawed, as it overlooks the significant differences in environmental and societal contexts. Unlike our ancestors who faced limited food availability, modern society enjoys an abundance of resources, rendering such ancestral practices a necessity for survival in their time, but not in ours.

[@wizdroid]

@@Psartz Saar tight fitting jeans putting saaar.

[@Psartz]

@@wizdroid Saar why are you triggered?

[@girltraveller1]

Great video as always. Keep the great work. Love from Sri Lanka

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@rafsal143]

Love your content! Where can I find the sources for this content? I did some research on it and was unable to verify some of the claims in this video. It’d be nice to have the resources for the claims that you made.

[@krishashok]

I was in a bit of a rush, so will share the book references I used. Mostly it’s neurogastronomy and Catching fire

[@rishavgarg6349]

please translate this video into other Indian languages like Hindi, Punjabi, etc.

[@krishashok]

Will do

[@rishavgarg6349]

@@krishashok thank you

[@rm_123sm]

The ending 😂 great

[@krishashok]

Hehe

[@prasha88]

they were all obviously non vegetarians 🤷 why is this even a question ?

[@krishashok]

You clearly don’t spend enough time on WhatsApp (and that’s a good thing)

[@Tpb247]

And yes they were all cave dwelling uncouth scavengers. So your point being …

[@piyushpahilwani770]

​@@krishashok whatsApp pe aisa kuch nhi hota..

[@samyakchhajed]

Actually, it depends on how far back you look

[@Tpb247]

@@samyakchhajed exactly

[@waheguru944]

Well researched and well argued. Brilliant indeed👍

[@Tully70]

Krish-ji, Dr.Psl's a recent short video on the effect of micro-plastics on our health contradicts your video on the same subject. 😮

[@markusknight]

I was just thinking about Krish's video when watching Dr. Pal's short.

[@Tully70]

@markusknight Me too

[@abhishek8977]

A lot of Dr Pal's content is nonsense. Content on Krish's channel is much more trustworthy and logical.

[@Tully70]

@@abhishek8977 objectives of Krish & Pal are different. Dr.Pal is propagating good eating habits (intermittent fasting, balanced diet, etc) and Krish is into creating awareness on science behind food, debunking myths etc. One cannot simply push aside what Pal is doing. That's my perspective.

[@abhishek8977]

@Tully70 Thanks for your perspective on this. My problem with Dr Pal is that he indulges in excessive fear mongering on various foods that is not accurate at all. Some of Dr. Pal's content is good, no doubt but it becomes tough to weed out the good from the bad. Anyway, this is my opinion and you need not agree with any of it and that is fine.

[@vineetasobhu]

Thank you so much for this video😊😊

[@krishashok]

You’re welcome!

[@Psartz]

The hypothesis that only meat consumption led to the enlargement of the human brain is often challenged by the observation that carnivorous animals such as lions and tigers do not possess comparatively large brains. Instead, it is the advent of cooking that is believed to have significantly contributed to the development of larger human brains. Cooked food, regardless of whether it is meat or plant-based, enhances nutrient availability. Moreover, while meat may indeed have been more readily accessible and constituted a substantial portion of the ancestral human diet, the practice of cooking calorie-dense foods played a crucial role. Cooking not only improved the bioavailability of nutrients but also provided a high-calorie intake, thereby affording our ancestors the opportunity to allocate more time to the development of tools and the advancement of communication skills.

[@shelldie8523]

Dunno what you have been reading the argument is consumption of calorie dense food not if you are carnivores or not. Species with protein consumption (and their ability to catch said protein) is the primary driver in larger brains and intellegence. Thanks for playing. You are the weakest link.

[@Psartz]

@shelldie8523 weakest link? What is your bench press?

[@Psartz]

@shelldie8523 The correlation between brain size and intelligence is negligible; rather, cognitive capacity is significantly influenced by the quantity of neurons. Our ancestors' consumption of calorie-dense, cooked, and nutrient-rich foods facilitated an evolutionary advantage by allowing more time to be devoted to skill enhancement and communication. This advancement, in turn, resulted in an increased neuron count across generations.

[@ultronde4958]

@@shelldie8523 Species with protein consumption is primary driver for survival dude. All animals eat protein. All animals are made of proteins. The problem here is the assumption that meat played a role in our brain development. There is no good evidence to suggest that hypothesis, but we do know that glucose is the fuel for brain and carbs rich foods provide good amount of glucose to fuel our brain.

[@thunderpokemon2456]

To be specific bone marrows ​@@Psartz

[@shashankagarwal4370]

Great video as always! Could you suggest some books to read?

[@krishashok]

Neurogastronomy

[@guharup]

Only salad and smoothies. No oil. Thats why they had such amazing hair

[@CinephileIndia2023]

You just roasted a bunch of people LOL.

[@krishashok]

Ideas, not people

[@adnanpenwala291]

Tyvm Sir for this and really enjoyed the ending 😆

[@krishashok]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rakeshmehra6321]

Okay, now answer me these please. 1) Why do humans have long digestive tract like a herbivore? 2) Why do humans lack natural carnivorous traits like sharp claws, the ability to hunt without tools? 3) If we were natural meat-eaters, why do we have flat molars suited for grinding rather than tearing flesh? 4) If I keep a dead rat on one plate, and a fresh apple on another plate, which one do we tend to pick and eat? Which one is appetizing? 5) Why do humans struggle to digest raw meat, risking worm infection, unlike a carnivore? 6) Humans evolved with empathy and the capacity to understand suffering. Doesn't killing sentient beings conflict with that evolutionary trait? 7) Why is our saliva alkaline and designed to break down starches, whereas carnivores have acidic saliva to break down meat? 8) If humans are naturally inclined to eat meat, why does raw meat smell and taste repulsive to most people unless heavily spiced or cooked? 9) If eating meat is "natural," why is it one of the most inefficient ways to obtain energy, requiring more land, water, and food compared to plant-based diets? Doesn’t the destruction of ecosystems for meat production indicate that humans are going against nature rather than aligning with it? 10) Why do our instincts feel threatened when we see a carnivore? 11) If humans were natural carnivores, why do babies and young children instinctively prefer sweet and plant-based foods over meat? There are horses in certain parts of the world, which were fed meat, that doesn't make the horse a carnivore.

[@krishashok]

Boss you enjoy your plant based diet. Just leave others to eat what they want to eat

[@rakeshmehra6321]

@krishashok Yes. I am not against non-veg eaters at all. Just putting out my perspective.

[@fishyfish6510]

Humans are not carnivorous we are omnivorous

[@sanjayvirmani70]

​@krishashok where is your scientific logic now? Just deflecting his questions by saying enjoy your veg meal

[@MultiHeywatsup]

​@@sanjayvirmani70sometimes arguments are so stupid that just trying to answer is equivalent to glorifying stupidity. But I can answer all his arguments with simple scientific studies showing prehistoric human diets and living habits. Before Hinduism was invented. But that doesn't mean we should continue to do what we did. Before we also roamed naked. As our sensibilities evolve we become more sensitive to the suffering of animals and although we might not alleviate the killing of animals completely we can at least stop extremely cruel practices like factory farming or other evil practices

[@vasavi9136]

How come this video ended so quickly? 😂 i was still hooked for more and informative content from you Krish. Keep educating these social media addicts

[@krishashok]

haha will do!

[@kanwalrahim7905]

brilliant!! 🙏🏽🤓🍵 well researched presentation 🥘 our ancestors were flexitarians ☺️

[@krishashok]

Absolutely

[@smileyfoods]

Am Just waiting for your video Sir. As always making so much sense! And the ending is just💥

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@siddharthsatapathy5tt229]

Lovely explanation ❤🎉

[@kartik9892]

✨ The one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of children is not to bring them into this world of diseases, crimes, wars, accidents, natural disasters, old age, death, and all the unknown evils the future holds including the eternal fire if its true. ☮

[@ramkumar_watch]

Good video. My thought on term "Non-Vegetarian" / "Non-Veg" The term "Non-Vegetarian" carries a terminological bias, as it implicitly positions vegetarianism as the default or superior choice. This perspective can feel exclusionary to individuals who consume a combination of meat, plant-based foods, and dairy products. As an alternative, the following terms could be considered: 1. "Flexitarian" - Those who primarily eat plant-based foods but occasionally consume meat. 2. "Inclusive Vegetarians" - Diet that includes a variety of foods, encompassing both vegetables and meat.

[@Rpd3]

Great video with witty humor. Take away- don’t mix food with religion/ belief system.

[@vishaalbhatnagar3924]

Great research. Excellent video. Would love to read up on some of the reference literature you quoted.

[@DeoreMahesh-j1x]

SIR I am glad you have released new video I hope today you will definitly show your PHD or any POST GRADUATION in FOOD SCIENCE REGARDS

[@sayantanroy4318]

Always learning something new from your videos

[@Random-pk7sl]

This video should be seen by those called animal lovers who suffer from greater than thou syndrome.

[@arjunathesage7010]

I watched the video, it's crap

[@Random-pk7sl]

@arjunathesage7010 great..continue as before

[@arjunathesage7010]

@@Random-pk7sl Your comment is as ignorant as the person who made the video with ridiculous citations and no scientific evidence. Only random claims by random researchers. So yes, holier than thou because thy mind needs work.

[@chimplachuska]

​@@arjunathesage7010lol your beloved Arjun was a meat eater

[@Random-pk7sl]

@@arjunathesage7010 Ok, I said already nobody forcing you to eat meat. You don't force others, that's it. If you try to, don't cry if someone stuffs a chicken piece in your mouth.

[@Im-Pawan1]

Absolutely loved the video please make more such videos

[@adityaji2001]

Being a ex vegetarian for whole childhood ( till age of 19 ) I tell you for sure that for optimal life omnivorous diet is best . Vegetarianism and veganism is not bad , you can be so for moral and ethical reasons but you must accept biological and medical disadvantages of it . Problem with vegan is not that they don't eat meat problem is that they think its ' medically better ' not to eat meat and there for give dumb responses for it .

[@arjunathesage7010]

Why do they serve vegetarian meals in hospitals? Why does the cardiologist recommend plant based diets to heart patients? My god you're so educated

[@adityaji2001]

@arjunathesage7010 They serve vegetarian meal in hospital because it's less controversial . If they start serving chicken peoples religion would feel ' attacked' . Even if they serve vegetarian meal along side nonveg , touching food ' with nonveg spoon ' would be controversial 😅😅😅 . In rest of the world they serve both vegetarian and Normal food . Secondly no cardiologist recommend veganism if they do it means you need a better one ! Veganism might be moral and ethical in some point but Indian vegetarianism/veganism is simply religious sentimental phesudoscience elitist bullshit !

[@ultronde4958]

@@adityaji2001 what medical disadvantages do I have from not eating meat? reduced risk of heart attack? Reduced risk of all cause mortality? What exactly was that disadvantages of not eating meat including the class 2A carcinogen (Red meat) and Class 1 carcinogen (Processes meat)?

[@adityaji2001]

@@ultronde4958 For starters you become dumb enough to think that heart attack and mortality are caused by meat . There is no authentic study proving claims that meat directly causes heart attack . Except those clearly flawed studies done by vegan themselves . Secondly high risks of heart attack is because of obesity caused by high calorie intake mainly carb diet like usa which has 30% of population over obesity line yet heart attack risks in vegetarian indians are higher than them ! We are already diabetic capital of world thanks to high carb law protein diet Imagine if obesity rates reach equal those are in usa what will happen ?

[@4m0d]

there are studies which do show that veganism is indeed medically better in some circumstances for example cancer risk , but sure the difference is marginal and veganism should be preferred firstly for ethical reasons.

[@tejesh3763]

Great explanation sir.❤

[@gprgdv9882]

Our ancestors were uncivilized also living in Forest in very uncomfortable situation like us they were not living in well planed well devolved with all the facilities and densely populated cities, they were also uneducated did not know meat eating is wrong, but still they were vegetarian most of time Non-veg some time

[@bimalmampatta]

Comments about the brain rot due to social media at the end was nice. But seeing that Krish is spreading this message using social media gives us some hope for the medium

[@thinkroses]

No one could have explained in a simpler way than this. 🎉

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@SrijitChatterjee]

Simply brilliant :D

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@mariomenezes1153]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@yashtambe175]

Loved The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference

[@krishashok]

Hehe thanks!

[@ejazmohdkhan]

Brilliant as usual.. But i was expecting this a long ago.. Late ay vandhalum latest thaane...

[@GopalVenkatesan]

That last part about social media 😂👌🏽

[@krishashok]

Hehe

[@nidhin916]

The last part .... EPIC😅

[@RB-om8sk]

I m not expert as u r but I in my own small way discovered various aspects 10-15 years ago that u say today like fermented foods I have been advocating it since 15 yrs n I say to eat "baasi roti ' instead of fresh roti as my elders did in 50s n I learnt they r much more healthier

[@senguptasayn]

Excellent presentation.

[@niharikak23]

Please help with if soaked water of legumes and lentils should be used or discarded

[@krishashok]

Discard

[@sm8315]

Such a cool guy, someone incan always trust for quality education.

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@SKINNY_BRUH]

Our ancestors worried about Food Shelter Tapaa tap

[@karinamartinez42445]

The end of the video was the best! 😂

[@ravneetbrar3040]

Couldn’t agree more to this ! Thank you for making so much sense every single time

[@krishashok]

Thank you!

[@samuelgeorge8524]

Lovely well articulated and well researched contetn! Haha ending was brutally honest. :)

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@iamlohit]

The last two mins: for the reason Oxford named Brain Rot word of the year.

[@krishashok]

Yep!

[@ArnavAryan21]

Really didn't understand last part, is that sarcasm or something​@@krishashok

[@krishashok]

@ArnavAryan21 Yes

[@dhruvkumawat7639]

5:00 advocacy for cooking

[@CAP753]

I wonder what this man eats.He seems to know all the answers to all the questions.

[@jaybolt100]

❤Protect this man at all cost, from vegans, fitness & wellness scaremongers, Hindi belt vegetarians😂 Keep going Anna 👏🔥

[@Tpb247]

@@jaybolt100 lol yeah protect another fake news spreader 😂😂😂

[@harshitsingh6287]

Why specifically frm hindi belt vegetarians?

[@elementalbendingmaster3536]

Also racists like you

[@Psartz]

Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vincent van Gogh, Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Saint Francis of Assisi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sagan, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Confucius, Epictetus, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Albert Schweitzer, H.G. Wells, Annie Besant, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Theophrastus, Hypatia, John Wesley, Beatrix Potter.

[@Psartz]

Above all, the greatest minds in human history were vegans or vegetarians. Most of them openly shared their views about compassion toward sentient life.

[@AtelierJay]

Meat from the animals which did labour were not consumed - The decline of the Mauryan Empire by Romila Thapar

[@direct.skc.2]

Horses were initially food animals, riding them came later.

[@krishashok]

Yes, animals for food were different from animals for labour

[@sidhesh3570]

Loved the last part 😅

[@krishashok]

Hehe

[@okeng71487]

Vegetarianism has been the exception and not the norm among humans. A lot of modern Indian historical commentaries assume that India was some kind of exceptional civilization that existed in complete isolation from the rest of humanity. This narrative assumes that people in the ancient times in Indian subcontinent (Hindus) had some kind of super advanced civilization where: 1 Everyone was vegetarian 2 Everyone spoke chaste Sanskrit 3 There was no crime - no rapes, no slavery, no wars, no religious or tribal conflicts etc. 4 There used to be literal rivers of milk and honey. 5 Gold and Diamonds used to lie on the streets like trash 6 There were super advanced and large research centers located inside the temples. All modern inventions were already known at that time. This was simply not the case. Even today, only around 28% of Indians are vegetarians. Among the meat eaters, meat consumption is only on the increase.

[@aditgupta684]

Amazing video! Request you to post this video in Hindi on your other channel so that I can show it to my family. :)

[@Gkc842]

It took a long time to develop agriculture. Until then gathering and hunting were the only options.

[@piyushbharti646]

Really thanks Krish for debunking another myth..I recall asking you this earlier also..Though always believed on the evolution of humans, the learnings gathered about cooking and having option to eat vegetarian food....Aways wondered, otherwise, we would have remained carnivores only if not these learnings....So yet again - cooking and the MASALA LAB wins..

[@Gaya3Mugilan]

Hi Krish ... Can you please do videos on safe meal prep for the lunch box? With non veg protein option.

[@krishashok]

Will do

[@Gaya3Mugilan]

@krishashok Thank you 😊

[@dibyanidey1938]

Can you please link your sources/research papers/scientific journals?

[@Rajarshi1999]

Description

[@martialwisdom37]

Golden words at the end

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@nonimoon1]

Respect for you Sir! Your fan from Karachi - Pakistan. I wish I could translate your video into "Urdu" Language for Pakistani Audience.

[@krishashok]

I do have a Hindi channel - youtube.com/@masalalabhindi?si=DIKuUmLPvKEkTQ2W but not all videos are posted there yet.

[@andrewsaldanha1392]

Super end to the clip😊

[@krishashok]

Thank you

[@ramkumar.pianist]

Saw the midi keyboard and the bass.Produce and share some music as well😀

[@krishashok]

You can hear that on Spotify or Soundcloud!

[@Rajeshsori07]

Excellent video

[@chitraagarwal8259]

Love the H2G2 reference!

[@krishashok]

Hehe

[@gauravs9794]

The last two minutes is the icing on the cake.

[@utkalverse2531]

This man need to be more famous than these fitness utuber.. please share & subscribe guys.

[@vickeykooper2674]

Someday I would love to see Krish Ashok and Acharya Prashant on a debate on Veg vs Non-Veg...... it will be educative, full of critical thinking with facts and interesting.

[@vyas555]

Did our ancestors get an insurance plan? Did our ancestors pay taxes? Did our ancestors make movies? Did our ancestors study 4-5 years degrees in college? Did our ancestors eat in restaurants? Did our ancestors get to know each other before copulating? Feel, and do what's best for you. Good luck navigating life.

[@millennialmind9507]

Interesting

[@Tpb247]

@@millennialmind9507best comment. Saying our ancestors ate meat (without actual evidence) so we should too is nonsensical

[@millennialmind9507]

@@Tpb247 I don't eat meat

[@Tpb247]

@ yeah that’s what l said, this video suggest because our ancestors ate meat (without proof) we should too

[@GoalSetted]

​@@Tpb247 did you even watched he gave morphological and physiological proof , most ancient books says we ate meat . Such ayurveda talks eating deer and peacocks

[@vinuthatilak]

The last punch was super 😂

[@satatitripathy1472]

It actually has more diverse connection like economic connection. Later vadic era winessed eating more meat like cattle meat, many people could see cattle could benifit more in agriculture and dairy products so they started a movement of non-violence through buddhism and hence India shifted towards vegetarian diet. Still there was a common practice nonveg food was food of rich people and kings zamindars. It makes sense. Read all these from various books not ny opinion

[@illuminatusdeus3051]

Every human civilization... every... was basically omnivore. Ate whatever was available. Especially when food was scarce and wouldn't stay still!!!

[@krishashok]

Yes

[@BangMaster96]

If you want a clear answer, just look at what tribes that still exist today are eating. For example the Hadza tribe in Africa, almost 80% of their diet is Vegetarian and 20% of their diet is Non-Vegetarian. Similarly, other places where tribes still exist, from regions like Amazon Rain-forest, Africa, South East Asia, even in parts of India, almost 70% of their diet is Vegetarian, while 30% of their diet is Non-Vegetarian. All in all, we Human Beings are omnivores, with vast majority of our diet being Veg and small porting being Non-Veg. And this makes sense, because in the wild, hunting for animal is an energy consuming task, you have to chase after an animal, or come up with fishing techniques, all of this requires a lot of calories to burn. In modern Cities, we have easy access to Non-Veg food because it's industrialized, but in Nature, you have to actually hunt the animal, kill it, prepare it, and cook it yourself. This is why majority of our diet should be Vegetarian, and small portion should be Non-Vegetarian, like 80%/20% split between Veg & Non-Veg, and if you want to follow this, Mediterranean diet is the best because it's like 75% Vegetarian and 25% Non-Veg, so you get lots of fiber and carbs from Plants, while protein and fats from Meat.

[@harmangill6162]

If you go to Alaska they eat 100 percent meat

[@manjunathn6539]

Have u heard of Masai tribe(they mostly eat ONLY meat)in Africa, u just cherry picked data which goes well with your argument

[@Boselaphus]

Bulls. There are tribes who eat 70 percent meat and are taller, smarter and more better looking than the shorter veggie counterparts. Humans did not hunt all time for meat, there were lots of animals and a trap would be enough. Or eating a carcass hunted by other carnivores.

[@krishashok]

I’m not sure if anyone is saying anything different. A non veg diet by basic definition is still mostly plants with animal sources being added to supplement protein - this is usually the Indian way of doing this. The fundamentalist extreme in India is never a “pure non veg”. It’s always “pure veg” 😅

[@BangMaster96]

@@harmangill6162 Congrats, you found one place on Earth where they eat more Meat than Plant based diet

[@dibyadipankarroy]

Sending virtual shorshe ilish, kosha mangsho and hot steamed rice for you. Pure satwik food. 😇

[@Psartz]

The dietary practices of our ancestors were significantly influenced by their geographical location. In certain regions, the consumption of a meat-heavy diet was prevalent, whereas in others, a diet rich in plant-based foods was more common. Assertions suggesting that abstaining from meat consumption will lead to devolution lack credible scientific evidence and can be regarded as unfounded rhetoric, potentially employed to rationalize the consumption of meat. The enlargement of the human brain is often attributed to the intake of calorie-dense cooked foods.

[@RizwanMuzzammil]

Is it a fact that animal meats comprise 9 essential amino acids that are necessary for human life? If so, do you think that the human need for these 9 is the evolutionary result of having consumed animal product throughout the ages?

[@bhatts18]

Well none of the members of the great apes can produce their own essential amino acids, so in fact, we are dependent on meat or insects or a combination of plant foods to get these. In fact, genetic evolution suggests that most animals lost their genes for production of these essential amino acids in the initial stages since they were able to get it from their diets. The key is always a "balanced diet"

[@Ranjul_kumar]

2 way thing i believe. Meat ended up being easy to digest, n provided materials like Nicotineamide, providing more energy to make larger brains. Reduced stomatch usage make them adapt around meat and become less efficient for plant matter in return.