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"does the digging through research paper and try to find a place to draw the line" < That's not science, that's literary interpretation plus tendentious guess work.

"animals products" - We have been omnivores since before the genus Homo evolved. Our physiology has evolved to extract nutrition from animal products efficiently. A herbivore diet isn't sufficient for our species. Even our closest relatives, Chimpanzees, eat meat.

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Please take a look at a few of his video, you will see. If for exemple you look at the antioxidant effects in blueberries there is probably hundreds of published papers. If you want to explain the scientific consensus in a few minutes video so people can take action in their food choice you need make some simplifications. Also, you might need to discard the papers that got financed by the blueberries association if their finding are wildly differents than the general consensus.

And by all mean, you are still free to read all the papers if you have the time, but that is probably a one man job just for the blueberries.

> We have been omnivores since before the genus Homo evolved

So? Evolution doesn't optimize for the lifespan we're targeting currently.

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