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We Used to Eat Animals the Right Way – Here’s What Changed | WIRED

Dr. Bill Schindler explains why the processes we have in place today in the food industry lead to a less healthy and enriched lifestyle. The way humans eat animals has shifted. Our brains grew significantly once the human race started hunting its food. Diets that consisted of blood, guts, and organs contributed to that growth.…

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Dr. Bill Schindler explains why the processes we have in place today in the food industry lead to a less healthy and enriched lifestyle. The way humans eat animals has shifted. Our brains grew significantly once the human race started hunting its food. Diets that consisted of blood, guts, and organs contributed to that growth. These parts of animals are almost completely absent from modern day diets; and these provided much more nutrition than just the animal’s meat.

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We Used to Eat Animals the Right Way – Here’s What Changed | WIRED

98 Comments

  1. WTFisMYname24

    October 28, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    Psst, going plant based is always an option 😉. Healthy for you, definetly healthier for the planet and well, I’m sure you can figure out who else it benefits lol.

  2. Hotlog

    October 28, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    Me no need fire, me eat natural way. *washes it down will the blood of a pig*

  3. Sir Will

    October 28, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    No we didn’t.

  4. david monnaham

    October 28, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Hey Bill, what do you think about being vegetarian or vegan as a concious decision?

  5. Gunnerblaster

    October 28, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    Me, eating Burger King, as I watch this: Interesting…

  6. Dame Anvil

    October 28, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Higher superstition

  7. Kevin Burrow

    October 28, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Since life expectancy is more than double now, I find that hard to believe.

    • Zane Albert

      October 29, 2020 at 1:19 am

      Do you suppose that significantly lower infant mortality rates, modern dental care, modern medicine, emergency medical services, and other factors have anything to do with why average life expectancy is higher now compared to hunter gatherer societies?

    • Kevin Burrow

      October 29, 2020 at 1:21 am

      @Zane Albert Of course, it’s more than just one thing. Not denying that.

  8. sweiland75

    October 28, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Anamos.

  9. Ken Gray

    October 28, 2020 at 11:32 pm

    I’m with you on the whole organ meat thing. When a carnivore kills an animal, the organ meat is the first thing they go for. Only if they have time after a day or so do they even bother getting around to the muscle. In fact when bears are trying to really put the fat on Fast and hard at the very end of the salmon season, they only eat the organs they leave the meat just thrown up on the shore.

    But ethical? I don’t think you get to use the word ethical. Ethical is going to imply some sort of Supernatural moral structure. I don’t think you get to use the word ethical anymore like that. I think what you get to use is your opinion is blank.

  10. kuryamtl

    October 28, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    The human species is in jeopardy because of CLIMATE CHANGE! Like seriously that is the biggest threat against us in the next 50 to 100 years.

  11. Look Behind You

    October 28, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    This video is only applicable to America and the poorest parts of Africa. The rest of the world knows how to eat 😂

  12. saja

    October 28, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    we weren’t even born yet lol

  13. Baraborn

    October 28, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    I don’t think that’s what the Vegans meant bro.

  14. Alexandre Anderson

    October 28, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    I like you..

  15. Timmychanga

    October 28, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    Just some critical thinking but if eating blood, organs and fat made us evolve into sentient being and if lions and other predators used to eat blood, organs and fat before us then why aren’t they sentient beings? This sounds like a correlation not causation thing.

  16. freesk8

    October 28, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    The biggest obstacle to greater voluntary adoption of these views is the government. Government makes health regulations that tend to favor large agri-business. Try to buy raw milk. Ya can’t. Try to keep a chicken coop in some urban ares. Ya can’t. Government subsidizes large ag employers, and regulates in their favor because they lobby, and small entrepreneurial farmers don’t. The free market could solve this problem, but the right wants to subsidize big agriculture, and the left wants to nationalize food production. Promote these food ideas voluntarily, in an atmosphere of freedom.

  17. Campbell Fulton

    October 28, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    No offal nor blood?
    You’ve never been to Europe

  18. freesk8

    October 28, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Sorry, man, pork cracklin’s ain’t good for ya, even if the pig ate free range, and was raised on organic food, and butchered in the back yard.

    • James

      October 29, 2020 at 12:12 am

      What do you think is wrong with it? Good saturated fat and protein, fried in its own fat. It’s a superfood.

  19. Andreas Egeland

    October 28, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    While I am no expert, I have been able to verify some of his claims and made a functional summary of everything he says which has any shred of evidence supporting it:
    Eat more organs.

  20. Joe Brown

    October 29, 2020 at 12:00 am

    Or you know… don’t eat meat if you want to be efficient with the food system???

  21. Jason Bueno

    October 29, 2020 at 12:15 am

    Or you know you could just not eat animals.

  22. bahaaawad91

    October 29, 2020 at 12:24 am

    This is stupid !

  23. KHJohan

    October 29, 2020 at 1:07 am

    Danish people eating liver paste: “there’s more?”

  24. jason dads

    October 29, 2020 at 1:10 am

    everybody raising and butcher their own meat will be less sustainable

  25. Danaib

    October 29, 2020 at 1:25 am

    Or just stop eating all meats lmao

  26. FFRomee

    October 29, 2020 at 10:31 am

    When your veggi ^^’ but still super intresting.

  27. Ro Man

    October 29, 2020 at 10:45 am

    At your age, you would be dead 15000 years ago

  28. Daniel Reyes

    October 29, 2020 at 11:02 am

    6:08 Is he implying we should eat ‘fur, hair, feathers, scales or even skin’?

  29. Jeffery Dobbins

    October 29, 2020 at 11:36 am

    Wired just lost a ton of credibility.What a wacko nut job.It sucks you can even trust wired with facts any more.This guy would shoot a Buffalo with an assault rifle at close range, pull out electric chain saw and cut out the liver and eat it raw and then say how happy the buffalo was giving his life so he would have the strength to murder more buffalo.What a freak.SHAME ON YOU WIRED FOR GIVING CRED TO THIS BULL CRAP ARTIST.

  30. Dan O'Shea

    October 29, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    *reads the title* No we bloody didn’t. End of.

    Now, there are some points to be made about modern agriculture, and production of meat, but that’s the click-batiest of titles, and it made me cross.

  31. SHO DAN

    October 29, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    Vegans left the chat 😉

  32. John P

    October 29, 2020 at 1:20 pm

    can’t blame obesity on eating meat rather than blood or organs … its soda / soft drink and sugar in general that has made a certain section of the population obese

  33. Booty Sweat

    October 29, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    So what do I eat? How can I improve?

  34. Aakash Pandey

    October 29, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Give him some off screen time he’ll tear and eat organs and blood of everyone present in the room.

  35. Tim Newton

    October 29, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Thank Capitalism

  36. Tim Holmes

    October 29, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    This guy is ignorant AF saying humans are the least healthy they’ve ever been… like dude people used to just starve all over the world and they put lead in the food cause it tastes good…

  37. nope nope

    October 29, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    Sorry but this is a bit of BS, first of all today we are mostly – in Western world – focused on meat, yes. BUT 50 years ago that was not the case so all this 15K years blabla is BS, at least for that argument. My parents and esp. grand parents still ate everything, or most of the animals. Sausages (which constains the fat etc) and a lot of organ dishes – I do not like that stuff, yes. On the other hand I do know my butcher. High energy food is even not a good idea, we already eat to much energy. Yes, the wrong food, again this video sound like some paleo/yesterdays was better crapp idiolgy… does he really believe the solution would be that everybody does the butchering themself? How ridicilous… the best is… for what/who? the person or the enviroment or ethical or economics?
    edit: how old is this video? That fat is not bad, that is so old, it’s already rencid.

  38. Jennifer Lee

    October 29, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    Love this message. Regenerative farming and getting a connection back to our food sources is important for our health on many different levels as humans. Thank you for being an advocate for true nutrution. ❤

  39. Imaginary Dragon

    October 29, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    Cool, glad I’m a vegetarian.

  40. gonschor7dleven

    October 29, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    Modern humans are so unhealthy yet we have far longer natural lifespans than our blood and liver eating ancestors?

    And we certain have better quality of life, very little starvation, time for entertainment, yet. Sure, maybe more incidences of cancer but also no getting eaten by a hungry animal.

    All this “eat elk meat and drink blood” just comes across as the latest diet or anti-medication craze.

  41. Baroness Unicorn

    October 29, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    Why is he yelling at me? I don’t like being yelled at! Yell at Congress about the system, not me

  42. mr. mayhem

    October 29, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Drinking blood and eating hearts good, mcnuggets and whoppers bad, ok got it.

  43. WorldOfQuestions

    October 29, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Lol, this guy has such an idealistic view of our past, as if we were just out there living our best lives instead of starving left, right, and center. Yes, there are major problems with our food production but going back isn’t the solution, it’s going forward. Eating plant based is the biggest thing you can do to reduce your environmental impact and goes towards a world where we don’t torture trillions of sentient beings. Slitting your dog’s throat isn’t going to help you live a better life so why would slitting a pig’s throat?

  44. Luineile

    October 29, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    I can’t believe I wasted 8 minutes of my life on this stupid, pseudoscientific, sensationalist video. If this guy has enough free time to butcher and prep “half a pig”, he should spend some of it looking around. To his surprise he may find out that most of working adults have more pressing problems and very little free time, which they prefer to spend living (not like a cave man, may I add). Sure food waste is a problem, but his solution is a joke.

  45. KiloWatt

    October 29, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    well, you never had a frikandel, they use everything in there:P

  46. KiloWatt

    October 29, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    Sorry mate, fire is what made us. cooking meat is safer and easier to digest, and chew. then our jaw muscles didn’t have to be so big while at the same time getting WAY more energy which in turn supports the development of a larger brain. not blood, fat and organs. i mean they ate them yes. but fire was key

  47. The Doe

    October 29, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Oooohhhh, I think got it!!! So all I have to do is to butcher animals by myself in front of my family and the saturated fats won’t harm my body anymore?! I love this new dramatic approach to a healthier diet! Sounds way easier than just eating more healthy food like vegetables. Thanks man! This is genius!

  48. KiloWatt

    October 29, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    you should have just made a 20 minute video mate…..this quick hopping and skipping steps and leaving out info is disingenuous .

  49. Mitch King

    October 30, 2020 at 12:18 am

    Wow dude. This video is a bit of BS. The food industry doesn’t control it. Supply and demand does. It is this way, because that’s what consumers want!

  50. Marcos

    October 30, 2020 at 12:21 am

    Problem: We are less healthy than when we used to eat hundreds of vegetables.
    Solution: Chop pig.

    Sounds about right.

  51. Djdjdj Snsjjsdj

    October 30, 2020 at 3:06 am

    Summary:become a zombie that eats animals drinks their blood and chews on their organs and fat 🙂

  52. RayDay

    October 30, 2020 at 5:41 am

    … There are some good points here but this guy is missing a LOT of information. I’m disappointed in Wired on this one.

  53. Saravanan

    October 30, 2020 at 6:03 am

    Gonna show this to the vegans and enjoy the choas.

  54. WonderbreadX

    October 30, 2020 at 12:06 pm

    Love this but the time is a factor in doing all that.

  55. The WWF Is Badass

    October 30, 2020 at 1:57 pm

    I would like to see Gordon Ramsay’s thoughts on this.

  56. Jordan Walters

    October 30, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    You are almost correct about the explosion of brain size, but it wasn’t cutting tools it was the invention of fire. When humans first began to cook meat it made the nutrients in the food much more easily digestible, practically cooking increased the efficiency of digestion and that meant every pound of meat had its calorie count increased (also less parasite and germs was also a good thing). Every disease you mentioned is not caused by meat intake it is caused by processed sugar. I do agree with your argument as a whole but just don’t build your house on sand. I didn’t realize how rare offal and fat was abroad, it is still quite popular in Wales.

  57. Jared Moore

    October 30, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    But, hear me out – organ meat tastes horrendous. I’d rather be nutrient deficient than eat organ meat. Maybe if they could make it actually palatable. But until then, feed it to dogs.

  58. Ninjhetto NLK3

    October 30, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    I always felt that the way we eat meat is the issue with our health, not meat itself.

  59. HindsightPOV

    October 30, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    The human species is doomed.

  60. Nekminute

    October 31, 2020 at 12:55 am

    i eat my gf everyday

  61. Mike Krier

    October 31, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    Couldn’t the farms just butcher it for me and serve up an “organ medley” I can buy in the store?

  62. John 2:18

    October 31, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    The apocalypse is a solution not the problem

  63. monkeyape456

    October 31, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    What is a food archeologists is this dude objective

  64. monkeyape456

    October 31, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    What’s a preacher doing on wired

  65. Cody

    October 31, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    This guy is like the ancient aliens guy of food

  66. FlintTD

    October 31, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    He’s right in pushing for a highly diverse diet and a local and transparent food industry.

    He also has a slight obsession with death.

  67. ms bubbles

    October 31, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    That’s probably an American thing. We eat everything over here in the Caribbean 🍽️

  68. Louis Cruz

    October 31, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    So much mixture of error and truth….not worth commenting the details

  69. Clarence

    October 31, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    False. When I was growing up in the rural areas our food was very healthy but never tasty. Future generations will be very healthy as they will be adapted to eat the current foods that tasty and satisfying

  70. ROVER25X

    October 31, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    A lot of opinion and little fact.

  71. Jacob Morgan

    November 1, 2020 at 12:57 am

    I find it amusing how he makes all these claims about how people ate millions of years ago like it’s a proven fact. Why would people make such radical changes based on unproven theories? Sounds like a democrat to me.

  72. Siddharth Chowdary Vunnam

    November 1, 2020 at 5:12 am

    This guy thinks he’s got a vision, except he’s late to the table by almost a 100 years. 😏

  73. 이타르퀸

    November 1, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Love the way you express,

  74. nhcq

    November 1, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    What an incredibly speculative story about something that happened 3.5M years ago, presented in a matter-of-fact format, almost as if there is some kind of proof to back up the claims.

  75. J Chweszezuk

    November 2, 2020 at 12:23 am

    Nice.

  76. Michael Mandel

    November 2, 2020 at 1:50 am

    If animals ate the valuable nutrients which you attribute to the source of our superior brains, why aren’t they writing books now?

  77. dadautube

    November 2, 2020 at 11:21 am

    generally, i don’t agree with eating meat … but this gentleman has valid points in criticizing the wrong way majority of people consume animal flesh in a ‘quantity over quality’ fashion …

  78. Alex Ekeli

    November 2, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    Yes yes yes yes

  79. Le Kien Hoang

    November 2, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    Well, this is more like a Western problems. Asian culture and many other parts of the world know how to cook every parts of an animal – which is, ironically, considered as savage by many Westerners.

    • staszewa

      November 2, 2020 at 9:10 pm

      And is quite often related to many more foodborne diseases and sometimes even potentially deadly viruses (cough, cough…). There is upsides and downsides to most things it seems.

  80. Juri Kirstein Høgel

    November 2, 2020 at 1:26 pm

    Amazingly interesting

  81. Marco Vecchi

    November 2, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    you guys don’t have fat in the fridge at all time?

  82. Syntax ERROR

    November 2, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    yeah no. today it’s neither necessary nor sustainable nor ethical for the majority of the human population to eat other animals. the future is plant-based and vegan – that’s the direction our food system and our society needs to head towards.

  83. Joe Anderson

    November 3, 2020 at 6:16 am

    Yay obviously don’t live in the PNW. We spend at least 3 weekends a month (during the right season) hunting. When we kill an animal, we skin it and keep the meat.

  84. Dw267

    November 3, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    Asian people:
    Am I a joke to you?

    • Cian L.

      November 5, 2020 at 2:48 am

      bone broth, blood, intestines, and so many more. asians eat the right way!

  85. so ling yan

    November 3, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    But I don’t understand, if predators like lions, tigers, bears, they eat fat like we do, why their brains remained undeveloped?

  86. Alexandru Vasiloiu

    November 4, 2020 at 1:22 pm

    In my yrd i got my oun duk and ciken and goses and pigs that my famili grow them for decades

  87. HarshVardhan Mankotia

    November 4, 2020 at 1:27 pm

    I agree with him about the way we eat meat. But the solutions doesn’t seem very convenient to me. It all comes down to people coming to their senses and reducing their meat consumption and eat veggies. Instead of large farms have local meat producers where animals aren’t given any steroids to promote growth and kept crowded in filthy spaces. It inhumane the way we produce meat nowadays.

  88. Gruul

    November 4, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    As an Asian, I often eat animal organ and use animal fat to cook

  89. _d3c1m8

    November 5, 2020 at 12:50 am

    *Starts hunting*

  90. Hydroxide Na

    November 5, 2020 at 9:42 am

    Typical american. Most of the Asian and European would have organs and blood in their diet. Your diet aint the only one doc.

  91. Zubair Hossain

    November 5, 2020 at 11:59 am

    Why is he yelling?? He knows there’s a mic right? He could whisper and we’d still hear him…

  92. さんよう

    November 5, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    Speak for yourself, Asians eat all sorts of weird organs. (By a Taiwanese)

  93. sandip aryal

    November 5, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    Bear Grylls watching this be like*

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