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The problem with all the studies you keep mentioning that involves meat is always cooked meat. Have you ever tried raw meat products in your diet or just go straight raw vegan???
Its alright everybody im just asking a question im not trying to starting a fight. The problem that i always find with all these human vs carnivore debates always has two major flaws in my opinion. The first being that they always say how can humans possibly have hunted they dont have clawa or teeth like carnivores so they can't kill animals nearly as easily and even if they could they wouldn't be able to eat the tough flesh of the animal. My responce to this is always that although this statement is true everyone always overlooks the fact that human morphology has evolved around the use of tools which we have been doing for several million years. So yes we don't have claws, but we do have sharp stone tools and we dont have sharp teeth but we are able to cut up the meat with our tools.
The second big argument is carnivore/herbivore/human gut morphology. The argument is that carnivores have a very small digestive (3-6X) tract compared to body size and herbivores have very large digestive tracts (30X) compared to their body size. Humans on the other hand actually dont have either (9-15X). We are right in between. So can we conclude right away that we are omnivores? No but there is one other clue we have that i find interesting. The closest living relative humans have when it comes to gut morphology is the capuchin monkey. We and they have very odd digestive systems and are relatively the same. The capuchin monkeys diet consists of almost 50% meat. So once again does it prove we are omnivores? No, but it does lead to the idea that we may be. (Also just so everyone knows that there is no such thing as a 100% herbivorous diet in nature. Even chimpanzees who are supposedly 100% fruitarian will always eat meat when it is available to them. They eat all types of rodents and when another chimpanzee dies they will actually eat the carcaus.)
I completely agree with the animal spear thing but thats really only gross to us because thats how are parents/communities raised us to think. And no grazing animals actually eat a large amount of insects but they are the closest animals to having 100% herbivorous diet.
I also agree with the meat is acidic thing but what about all the fruit you eat? Not all, but most fruit is very acidic, so why is meat any different?
Okay but what about the acidic fruits and vegetables??? Do you just not eat those??? Also raw meat is not very acidic at all.
For science based information on the implications of animal proteins and dairy read "The China Study" by T. Colin Cambell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II
Yah well i heard that your suppose to eat large amounts of the animal fat as long as its grass-fed its fine. And some organs large amounts contain vit c. Also what if you dont want to lose weight??? Ive never seen a raw vegan that doesn't look thin.