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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 09 December 2012 10:48:52AM *  5 points [-]

Have you ever seen any research showing alcohol consumption to be beneficial in non-humans? I am currently a non-drinker, but an animal study would defeat my true rejection.

Comment author: Desrtopa 10 December 2012 03:17:24PM 1 point [-]

I'd note that even if alcohol consumption is beneficial for humans, most nonhuman mammals have considerably less efficient livers than we do, so the levels of alcohol by bodyweight that are good for humans might be a health risk for most other animals we could test it on.