http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2677858/Bad-news-vegetarians-Plants-hear-eaten.html Turns out all those vegetarians criticising us meat eaters have been just as guilty of cruelty! Although for some posters on here, vegetarianism is akin to cannibalism!
I hardly eat any meat and have been thinking of becoming fully vegetarian. A lot of veggie stuff is as nice as the meat alternative.
If we were supposed to be vegetarian we would have no incisors or canine teeth and would have a massive diastema hence looking like a horse.....oh oh..! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...1/2/1262392919370/Ruud-van-Nistelrooy-001.jpg
Do it Charlie, if you miss meat you can always go back to eating it! I don't eat meat because I don't like the taste or smell! Once I had a choice at around age 15, I stopped!
I've not had red meat for a long long time and now I've stopped eating chicken as well. Thing is Lincoln that I do't miss it. The more I eat veggie the more I perfer the taste of veggie. I might just do it properly and see how I go. But I do like fish. What are non meat eaters who eat fish? Are they pesc somethings? I could do that.
We are vegetarian and still haven't properly evolved to eat meat. Our bodies can't handle it, hence the higher rates of cancer, diabetes and heart disease in meat eaters. If we were supposed to eat meat we would be able to eat it raw, which we can't it would make us ill, you never see a lion in the jungle cooking its antelope before it eats it. Our teeth are not suited to eating meat either, although we have 'canine' teeth, they cannot tear hind nor can our hands which poses the question as to how we'd eat it. We started eating meat as scavengers, then evolved to hunt with tools and eventually to agriculture but our bodies never caught up. Now its habitual and socially ingrained that we are carnivores, when we never have been. That said, you can't beat a good steak.
I'm a vegetarian. Have been for nearly a year now. Moved in with a vegan. Thought "is there really any point buying meat for one person" (and having to cook all my own meals...) so I gave it a go. I feel so much healthier now it's unbelievable. Don't miss meat at all. I actually prefer the taste of vegetarian stuff. It's amazing what you can do with food when you don't have to centre everything around a slab of carcass.
I think the problem's not vegetarians/non-vegetarian diets, it's the additives put into both that's more of a problem. Vegetarians are cruel anyway, fancy stealing the food from the animals they claim to respect. Most true vegetarian animals are limited, as they gain so little nourishment from their food, they need vast quantities, so have to spend most waking hours, eating, or looking for food. As experts tend to agree that we are by nature meat eaters, (our jaws, teeth and digestive system shows that), we had more time to think and make life more comfortable and fulfilling.
If you don't eat meat because you don't like it then fair enough I guess but if you don't eat it because you like cute ickle lambs or whatever then it's already bloody dead, best eat it then have it die for nowt. Also we are supposed to eat meat, we're obviously not supposed to eat plants else our appendixes wouldn't be a useless lump would they...
All three are strong cases for us being natural herbivores. Our jaws, teeth and digestive system all evolved from primates who were herbivores and they haven't even come close to resembling a true carnivore yet.
Our appendix has an important role in immunity. 'The function of the appendix is to expose white blood cells to the wide variety of antigens, or foreign substances, present in the gastrointestinal tract. Thus, the appendix probably helps to suppress potentially destructive humoral antibody responses while promoting local immunity.'
I'll just go with the opinions of paliontologists and archeologists etc. Oh, and the Vegetarian Resource Group. https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm I'm not sure who they are to be fair.
Humans have been eating meat for at least 2.6m million years, before we were humans as they exist today, I think it's safe to modern humans have always been meat eaters.
*Paleontologist As will I, given that a number of my colleagues are paleontologists and the fact you've never discussed this with a paleontologist in your life.
True but that only takes us back to the Pleistocene and that's not a long time, especially with regards to evolution, hence our physiological limitations to eating meat.
If we were supposed to be herbivores we'd have no problems picking a death cap out the woods and having a good munch on it. Yet we could shoot any animal in the head and have a good chomp. Case closed as far as I'm concerned.
