Vegans vs Carnivores: the Culture War's Strangest Frontier

The bizarre fight for the essential human

In this week's instalment we're going to visit one of the more bizarre trenches of the Culture Wars — the ideological fight over what our ancestors ate. We're going to be doing a comparison between two articles on ancient ancestors' diet.

The first is a journalistic history of how humans came to eat meat that was published in The Atlantic. The second is …