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16628, RE: Humans are not physiologically designed for meat eating
Posted by AZ, Thu Mar-22-01 08:16 PM
This isn't very good scientific support for the claim that humans are not physiologically designed for meat eating. The reason being is that you're comparing physiological traits between different species but you're not examining as to whether there are other body parts in humans that fulfill the functions of those parts found solely in the typically meat eating animal.

For example:
Yes humans don't have claws. However, they have natural physiological traits such as ingenuity, thinking skills, and motor skills that don't necessitate their lack of claws. That is, humans can make knives therefore not needing claws, and thereby leaving our hands more able to be used for skilled, precision-necessary activities.

Secondly, there are other animals that also don't share these "meat eating traits" such as certain fish.

Thirdly, humans are not carnivores but rather omnivores. It wouldn't make physiological sense for humans to have the same traits as animals that solely eat meat.


>I got the following breakdown out
>of this small book called,
>"What's Wrong with Eating Meat?",
>written by Vistara Parham.
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>Carnivores first.
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>Meat Eater:
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>1) No claws
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>2) no pores on skin;perspires through
>tongue to cool body
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>3) sharp, pointed front teeth to
>tear flesh
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>4) small salivary glands in the
>mouth (not needed to pre-digest
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>grains and fruits)
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>5) acid saliva; no enzyme ptyalin
>to pre-digest grains
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>6) no flat molar teeth to
>to grind food
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>7) much strong hydro-chloric acid in
>stomach to digest tough
>animal muscle, bone, etc.
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>8) intestinal tract only 3
>times body length so rapidly
>decaying meat can pass out
>of body quickly.
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>Now let's take a look at
>us.
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>Human Being:
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>1) No claws
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>2) perspires through millions of pores
>on skin
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>3) no sharp, pointed front
>teeth
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>4) well-developed salivary glands, needed to
>pre-digest grains
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>5) alkaline saliva; much ptyalind to
>pre-digest grains
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>6) flat, back molar teeth to
>grind food
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>7) stomach acid 20 times
>less strong than meat-eaters
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>8) intestinal tract 12 times body
>length; fruits do not decay
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>rapidly so can pass more slowly
>through the body.
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>I've been a vegetarian for almost
>10 years. It's the
>way of our glorious ancestors.
> Meal meat-eating is Cave
>Culture.
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>that which you say you
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>"...And we are loved for being
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>are militant..." - Alafia Pudim
>of the Last Poets.
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>The second generation of Negroes WORSHIPPED
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