Shattering The Meat Myth: Humans Are Natural Vegetarians (soldiers, bias, compare)

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by filihok

Humans weren't and aren't designed to do anything

I think that using "designed" in that context can be forgiven and I doubt anyone was trying to offend you by implicating the existence of a Judeo-Christian model god.

[filihok]

Originally Posted by jimboburnsy

I think that using "designed" in that context can be forgiven and I doubt anyone was trying to offend you by implicating the existence of a Judeo-Christian model god.

I wasn't offended and it has nothing to do with 'intelligent design', it is backward thinking to say, 'since we have canine teeth we are designed to eat meat'.

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by filihok

I wasn't offended and it has nothing to do with 'intelligent design', it is backward thinking to say, 'since we have canine teeth we are designed to eat meat'.

Okay, okay, I was being presumptuous. Evangelical athiests are as annoying to me as the polar opposite. Sorry.

You're actually quite right.

[expect]

Steak at Peter Luger's >>>>>>>> vegan/vegetarian alternative

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by expect

Steak at Peter Luger's >>>>>>>> vegan/vegetarian alternative

That might make an interesting study, if someone could get the funding for it. But the truth is, there is no such thing as a vegetarian alternative to a Luger's steak.

[Memphis1979]

Originally Posted by mg420

Kathy Freston: Shattering The Meat Myth: Humans Are Natural Vegetarians

Well lets see. Are Chimps naturally meat eaters? They eat protein in ants. They have been seen eating meat.

Are they doing what they were naturally born to do? I'd say so.

Being an omnivore is biologically and evolutionary good idea. Why limit yourself to one food product, when you can eat many different kinds.

Mammals eat meat, almost every mammal does eat some kind of meat, at least the most successful. The fact is, without the added protein of meat to our ancestors diets, we'd have never developed the massive brain that fuels our minds.

[Escort Rider]

Originally Posted by Memphis1979

Well lets see. Are Chimps naturally meat eaters? They eat protein in ants. They have been seen eating meat.

Are they doing what they were naturally born to do? I'd say so.

Being an omnivore is biologically and evolutionary good idea. Why limit yourself to one food product, when you can eat many different kinds.

Mammals eat meat, almost every mammal does eat some kind of meat, at least the most successful. The fact is, without the added protein of meat to our ancestors diets, we'd have never developed the massive brain that fuels our minds.

I agree with almost all of your post except the part I highlighted in bold. Quite a few mammals are herbivores: rabbits, deer, elk, moose, cows, horses and zebras, elephants, giraffes, gorillas, and the various kinds of antelopes (such as gnus and impalas, etc.).

[piyf]

Originally Posted by nezlie

I think when they started out life in the Garden of Eden, they were 100% frugivores (fruit eaters). The reason according to Genesis.. God made the trees available to them except for two trees, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. He did not want them eating the fruits from those two trees, but they could from all the other trees. Of course we know that things changed after they were banished from the garden and had to adapt to an omnivorous diet.

I posted this because while some of us look for hard evidence on things, there are others that rely more on scripture. That should cover all the bases.

And who exactly was there writing down notes of this? Why does god need to go through all this when he knows the answer already?

[jaada]

Our so-called "canine teeth" are "canine" in name only. Other plant-eaters (like gorillas, horses, and hippos) have "canines", and chimps, who are almost exclusively vegan, have massive canines compared to ours
Humans are natural plant-eaters -- in-depth article

[Tantalust]

Anyone here care to guess what family these hundreds of species belong to?

• Caryophyllales
  • Dioncophyllaceae
    • Triphyophyllum (1 species)
  • Droseraceae
    • Aldrovanda (1 species)
    • Dionaea (1 species)
    • Drosera (187 species)
  • Drosophyllaceae
    • Drosophyllum (1 species)
  • Nepenthaceae
    • Nepenthes (124+ species)
• Ericales
  • Roridulaceae
    • Roridula (2 species)
  • Sarraceniaceae
    • Darlingtonia (1 species)
    • Heliamphora (18+ species)
    • Sarracenia (11 species)
• Lamiales
  • Byblidaceae
    • Byblis (7+ species)
  • Lentibulariaceae
    • Genlisea (21+ species)
    • Pinguicula (96+ species)
    • Utricularia (225+ species)
• Oxalidales
  • Cephalotaceae
    • Cephalotus (1 species)
• Poales
  • Bromeliaceae
    • Brocchinia (2 species)
    • Catopsis (1 species)
• Scrophulariales1
  • Pedaliaceae
    • Ibicella (1, non-carnivorous)
• Violales1
  • Passifloraceae
    • Passiflora (1 species)
• Asterales1
  • Stylidiaceae
    • Stylidium (? species)

Answer:

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Carnivorous Plants