Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. The Official Movie Website. Home. EARTHLINGS. Are We Meat-Eaters By Nature? 1 - How humans are not physically created to eat meat. How humans are not physically created to eat meat Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivorous, our anatomical equipment teeth, jaws, and digestive system favors a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets. " And much of the world still lives that way. Even on most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society.
But even with the twentieth century, man's body hasn't adapted to eating meat. When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Meat-eaters: have claws Herbivores: no claws Humans: no claws Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue Herbivores: perspire through skin pores Humans: perspire through skin pores. Facts of Vegetarianism. These articles are from Facts of Vegetarianism — a booklet that although we believe published in the early 1970s by a joint effort of the American Vegan Society, American Vegetarians, and Animal Liberation, Inc., still expresses valid considerations for adopting a vegetarian diet.
Dudley Giehl, H. Jay Dinshah, Nellie Shriver, and Nathaniel Altman were contributing authors. Facts Of Vegetarianism Are We Meat-Eaters By Nature? It has been found that the diet of any animal in its natural state corresponds to its anatomical structure and general body functions. For example, the natural carnivores (such meat-eating animals as the wolf, lion, hyena, and cat) all possess a digestive tract only three times the length of the animal's body, and are thus capable of eliminating rapidly decaying substances (such as meat) in a very short time. The intestinal canal is relatively simple, and not convoluted. Scientists to date back perhaps a half million years. For ourselves. B) Dr. B) According to Dr. Etarian Pages. Humans are natural plant-eaters -- in-depth article. According to the best evidence: our bodies by Michael Bluejay • June 2002 • Updated December 2015 A fair look at the evidence shows that humans are optimized for eating mostly or exclusively plant foods, according to the best evidence: our bodies.
We're most similar to other plant-eaters, and drastically different from carnivores and true omnivores.1,2,3 Those who insist that humans are omnivores, especially if their argument is based on canine teeth, would do well to look at what the evidence actually shows. We'll cover that below. I first wrote this article many years ago, but since then Milton Mills, M.D. published an excellent paper which covers the anatomy of eating, so let's skip right to my table-ized summary of his research: The details are in Mills' paper. Summary of this article The anatomical evidence tells us that we're optimized for eating mostly or exclusively plant foods. Looking at the evidence fairly The most common counter-arguments "Humans have canine teeth. "Vitamin B12.