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RE: The meat industry: A summary of the many Reasons to become Vegan.
You stated "We are not carnivores, we are omnivores". Well that is not actually true!
If you do the research into our teeth and digestive system you will learn that humans are frugivores.
Check this image out to see for yourself.
Yeah i have seen it along with comparison of digestive tracts, pH values in stomachs etc. We sure are not grass or meat eaters, seen on our enzymatic profile and liver size. I agree that many traits are similar to those of frugivores, as well as omnivores. Frugivore is just a specialized omnivore pretty much so yeah, eat fruits that is good :) not meat!
It is all in the post on lipids and cancer, if you want to read more about it!
ok cool, will read that as well ;-)
I don't believe a frugivore is a specialized omnivore, my dog does not look like a monkey. Love the message you are putting out about meat and diary being bad for our health, which I agree is correct. But we are definitely not omnivores based on our physical traits. 😀
The article only argues that we are not carnivores :)
By the definition
We sure are omnivores, that has nothing to do with being a monkey or dog, both of which is omnivores :) Since they can digest both sources of food, chemically. Some monkeys hunt animals, some dogs live on fruit & vegan kibbles, it is just a matter of definition of the words, I used the one above :)
Peace
Ok cool I will have to disagree, 🐒 are generally considered to be fruit eaters, dogs are generally considered to be omnivores, these two types of animal are totally different and have different physical traits to cope with different types of food. Peace
And love
You do not have to agree with the definition, but I have to use one :)
I think it is crystal clear and leaves no room for considerations hehe If the animals eat both plants and meat, naturally, and can digest both, it is an omnivore!
Monkeys are not frugivores. Some spices can be frugivores , one is even herbivoric, but most of them are omnivores. They eat lizards, insects & spiders, bird eggs, some even hunt larger game or eat other monkeys! This has only to do with biochemical digestion capacities, not physiology, as well as choice of food sources of course :)
The most common frugivores are birds, how does that relate to your definition based on physiology. It again , has nothing to do with this!
Pigs, birds, bears, dogs, lizards, tortoises, monkeys, humans, coyotes etc etc have only 1 thing common often, that is being omnivores :)
Some birds are omnivores some carnivores some herbivores it has nothing to do with physiology.
But if you change the definition to omnivore = a certain physiological type, monkeys, then we are simply talking bout primates and their physiology in general, and we are at a very different type of classification!
Lets see what Cambridge thinks:
Peace
Lol 😀 chimps eat 50-90 % fruit in the wild depending on who you believe. They are supposedly the closest to us genetically.
Which in my eyes makes humans possible frugivores, not a typical omnivore that we have been taught all our lives.
Other considerations:
Humans cannot tear apart uncooked meat, babies crave fruit, we have a sweet tooth plus so many physical things that humans have adapted for and not adapted physically for digesting meat or digesting vegetables.