[QUOTE=Chitta Control;65803]we don’t have canine teeth, at least not like a tiger or lion do. Because [I]one pair of teeth[/I] superficially resembles the shape of true canine teeth doesn’t make us carnivores. Our teeth are almost exclusively uniformly blunt and dull, b/c 2% of our teeth have a somewhat pointed look to them doesn’t qualify for meat eating.
and what about intestine length? all true carnivores have very short intestine length so as to eliminate animal flesh quickly due to the rotting process. Ours are not. We have different bacteria in our intestines and they are designed for foods that give up nutrients slowly.
if you further would like to talk biology then why don’t we have retractable claws like many carnivores?
carnivores jaws move up and down to rip large chunks of flesh to gulp down but not for chewing, vegetarian animals all have jaws that allow for slight lateral movement , thus facilitating the chewing process. We have such a jaw. And our saliva contains the ferment ptyalin which aids in pre-digestion, carnivores lack this.
Mammalian carnivores don’t sweat thru their skin but pant, vegetarian animals all sweat. Do you sweat?
Carnivores lap water with their tongues, vegetarian animals suck up water with their lips pursed.
Hydrochloric acid - carnivores secrete 10x’s as much as we do, this helps to break down bones in the digestive tract.
Kidneys - carnivores kidneys can convert uric acid into allantoin , humans and apes cannot. Uric acid is a poison to us, it leads to gout, arthritis, rheumatism and fibrositis.
if it’s so natural to eat meat why cook it to disguise it? why not just eat things raw?
at best you could say, looking at our biology, that we are in between the grass and meat eaters, pretty much like all the great apes and monkeys, in between but certainly not designed to eat copious amounts of meat, certainly not like we’ve been programmed to by corporate media.
the strongest animals on the planet are all herbavors. Elephants, Oxen, the like. Gorillas and moneys are 99% similar to us but many times stronger.
protein is not built in the body from eating protein but from the amino acids in food. Even if you eat animal protein it first must be broken down into amino acids. The real measure of a food should be it’s AA composition, not it’s protein component.
Plants synthesize amino acids from air, earth, water, but animals, including us, need plant protein – either directly by eating plants, or by eating an animal that’s eaten a plant. There are no “essential” amino acids in flesh that the animal did not derive from plants, and that humans cannot also derive from plants. This is why the elephant has all the muscle it needs, it builds it from the amino acids they get from plants.
this is why carnivores generally don’t eat other carnivores.
throw in the fact that protein may be the single most overrated part of any Americans diet, in terms of quantity needed, where it can come from, harmful effects of too much (gout, uric acid build up, kidney problems) and you could at best argue for small infrequent servings (a serving of mean is what fits into the palm or your hand or the size of a deck of cards) of meat.[/QUOTe]
Bravo…who can argue with this???
