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[sitandwonderwhy]

If anyone needed another reason to be a vegetarian..

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

Albert Einstein.

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VeggieSmart

[anonymous]

Quite, I don't think that Alex would be able to cope with anything Mr Einstein has to say though. He's intimidated by me, let alone someone with too much hair... he he...

Mark x

[___wired]

your teeth and genetics say otherwise :p

pip x

[sitandwonderwhy]

I'd like to see the average human hunt and kill an animal using only nails and teeth like obligate carnivores do! Our teeth and mouths are the wrong shape to be able to kill and hold captive struggling prey (compare our jaw shape and teeth to a lion - or a pet cat or dog!)We have the most genetic similarities to great apes, who are almost exclusively vegetarian. Our teeth are similar too - in fact apes and gorillas have longer canines than we do!

Our digestives systems were never designed to process as much meat as humans eat now. When humans first started hunting animals, meat only formed a very small part of their diets. We cannot avoid the fact that modern farming is hardly a 'natural' practice and the product of human desire rather than need. Our demand for flesh is helping to destroy the environment and is causing the suffering of millions of animals along the way.

D xXx

[___wired]

man has never hunted or killed an animal using only teeth and nails like an obligate carnivore, generally because we are not carnivores and never have been. humans began eating meat not because we desired to, but because the native vegetation was not enough to sustain us as our populations grew and we evolved. you try living off nothing but wild wheat and barley. i doubt the earliest forms of farming were much better than today's and they were certainly not as humane. either way, our ancestors' eating habits have made ours what it is today. whether or not you consider that a good thing is fairly immaterial unless you are about to pass legislation forbidding the consumation of livestock. i, for one, remain quite indifferent.