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All animals are born to be used by humans anyway. Who cares if someone eats a dog or wears its fur? >muh but dogs have been our friends since ancient times!!! I'm sure people back then ate their dogs when they got old and worn out too
Before the Neolithic (new stone age) era, practically every human on earth was a Hunter-Gatherer. They roamed in small tribes across vast lands, hunting animals and eating whatever they found on the way. Europe was populated by a race called the Western Hunter Gatherers. They were tall, strong, and healthy, and had dark brown skin and blue eyes, but over the neolithic, they got totally replaced by the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers, who were 3-4 inches shorter, much weaker, disease ridden, and lighter skinned with brown eyes. How did this happen?
The WHG had a diet which mostly consisted of protein and fat, with some carbs. It was diverse and full of nutrients. Despite living at a high latitude in Europe, they had brown skin because there was no evolutionary incentive to have lighter skin for them. The ANF had just invented Agriculture, and thus, their diets were completely replaced and almost entirely relied on grains and grain products. They occasionally consumed meat and dairy, but it was very rare. Any protein they had from their diets was in the form of beans like lentils. Their diets were over 80% carbohydrate, with very low fat, while the WHG were more like 40% protein, 40% fat, and 20% carbs. The reason they had lighter skin and it lightened a lot over time is because they had a massive evolutionary incentive. The WHG had dark skin, and lived at a high latitude, so they got very little sun penetrating their skin, and very little Vitamin D produced that way, but their diets were rich with meat and fatty fish which have tons of vitamin D3 in them, so that's how they acquired it. On the other hand, grains have zero vitamin D whatsoever, and plus, the ANF were migrating into higher latitudes in Europe at the time, so the ANF had extremely widespread vitamin D deficiency and related health issues, so the healthiest ones were the ones with lighter skin who could synthesize it from the sun more effectively. This later became a common trait through natural selection. Beyond this, many many other health issues stemmed from ANF malnourishment, which is the reason they were weaker and shorter and had dental issues and were disease ridden and wh*te.
The reason they ended up getting the upper hand in Europe, almost totally replacing the native WHG, is because farming provides enormous advantages in the quantity of food they could produce which translated to a demographic boom, literally providing them strength in numbers, but also their lifestyle gave them other distinct advantages.
