If humans are not built to eat meat, then how come they evolved the equipment to do so?!

Before the Earth had grocery stores, electricity, world wide shipping, and all of the other modern conveniences a vast majority of the people on Earth could not survive on a vegetarian diet. They had to eat meat or die. It was this way for Millions of years.

The only way most people today can be vegetarians is because of money and fully stocked grocery stores. But many vegetarians/vegans want EVERYONE to hop on to their lifestyle choice and condemn those who don't. They throw around vegan propaganda while standing on their pedestal.

We don't need any equipment besides our own body to digest meat. Humans can and do digest meat just fine. We also can and do eat raw meat. As far as weapons yes humans evolved with our brains. We can out think our prey, we don't need speed and strength like a lion.

We are designed to eat some meat, we are naturally omnivorous. That's why we have four canine teeth. Of course we won't be as specialised as carnivores because they have evolved to eat nothing but meat. The vegans always try to take the moral high ground, but they are wrong in this instance. Also, we would never have evolved such large brains if it wasn't for meat consumption - the brain requires a lot of energy to grow and function. A strictly herbivorous diet would have never supplemented humans with enough energy for the growth of our large brains.

To me, it is irrelevant if we are "built" to eat meat or not. I don't care if we are or aren't.
It is the conditions of factory farmed animals that is being boycotted by many vegetarians, not simply an idea of "we arent made to eat meat."

There is nothing natural about the meat out there being offered in our supermarkets.

The vegans are wrong. Humankind has been eating red meat since the beginning of time as cave men. We didnt evolve to have meat as a part of regular diet, it was instinct and we have been following that instinct since. We develop instruments like weapons so it allows us to prepare and acquire the meat easier.

I'd disagree about red meat. It's a nutrient dense, high quality protein food that tastes great, too.

Humans need vitamin B12. There is no source of vitamin B12 in any plant food. Proof, IMO, that humans are meant to eat animals.

Because we didn't "evolve" into meat eaters we always have been since the flood thousands of years ago, because evolution has never been true.

We weren't built to eat meat?!

Whoa!

No one said we can't eat meat. We just choose not to. www.meat.org.

Im not trying to be a dick, but think about your question in another context. Humans have evolved enough to make atomic weapons. Does it follow we must use that technology to blow the planet into bite size chunks of space dust? A slightly more scientific answer is that we have the ability to gain energy from animal flesh in times of scarcity however it's clearly not a good thing for our bodies over the long term. Humans are very adaptable and this is just one of those adaptations.

if your really interested in this question this article is a great read: http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html

Quite frankly I dont really care about the health aspects of a vegan diet, even though there are many benefits. Theres no reason to kill and eat another sentient being just because you like the taste. Is racism ok in moderation? Slavery? Rape? Torture? I think you understand what I'm getting at.

P.S. to many of the answers above me: why dont you buy a book instead of talking out your ****. humans didn't come from caves. we came down from the trees in the jungle that used to cover most of Africa as the content dried out, as its continuing to do. the diet of human ancestors was a fruitarian one with a bug here and there.

What most vegans forget is that it is because we can use both meat and plants we have survived. In the winter our ancestors would kill and eat animals and in the spring summer and fall they ate more plants, grains, fruits and veggies. And further back hunter gathers moved and ate both at the same time. It is easy to long down your nose and say you are taking the higher ground, if something happened and they had to go out in the wild they would eat meat or watch themselves and their children die a long painful death from hunger.

Putting aside the fact that our teeth, digestive tract, saliva, and stomach acid are similar to those of a herbivore...

Whats left? The fact that humans ate meat in the time of hunters and gatherers is wrong. Humans started off only gathering until they got lazy and wanted to settle down. They still hunted animals but for clothing and warmth. When we got lazy is when we began to experiment with eating the animals.

We barely have canine teeth and most people say its okay to eat meat because animals kill other animals for food. Predator and prey are found in the wild, we are not in the wild. We are advanced. And if we were in the wild, we wouldnt season and cook our food to make sure it tastes good and that there is no salmonella. If we were truly meant to eat meat we would eat it uncooked and our bodies would be able to take the abudance of bacteria that comes with it like a true carnivore.

Weapons were meant to protect humans from danger not for killing animals to eat them. We can live off of berries, plants etc.

God gave the GARDEN of Eden.

We've adapted to eating meat just as anything else would adapt in science to something that happened. Birds adapt to migrating and some birds have adapted to eating bigger/smaller seeds by their beak shape. Just because we have adapted to eating meat dosen't meant that we can tolerate it. That's why you see so many stories of people getting sick from eating meat. If you are truly a CARNIVORE then you eat RAW MEAT.

And the fact that people are saying we don't need claws because we have weapons proves the point. Carnivores have everything they need to get their food they don't need to make a weapon to get it. The reason SOME people can eat raw meat it because its ADAPTATION but think about it..The cavemen ate raw meat before fire was discovered and what happened? They didn't have too much of a lifespan did they?

THE APPENDIX IS A PART OF THE BODY THAT IS NOT NEEDED ANYMORE BUT WAS NEEDED BEFORE WHY?

BECAUSE THE APPENDIX IS USED FOR DIGESTING PLANTS AND CROPS, ITS NOT NEEDED ANYMORE BECAUSE WE BARELY EAT PLANTS. IF WE WERE MEANT TO EAT MEAT WHY WOULD WE HAVE AN ORGAN THAT HELPS US DIGEST PLANTS?

Because people like to spout s*ite without doing any research & believing if an article looks well structured & technical it must be true, its referred to as ''blinding by science'' in debates that involve science where the opponent will try to sway the others opinion on topics he/she isn't well versed in. Religious zealots do it to to justify creationism.

Simple fact is we are omnivores, but Deer hunter is wrong native indian tribes (some) lived off a nearly all exclusive vegetarian diet with little to no meat consumption weekly. Interesting to note that 50% of common vegetables/fruits we recognise & regularly consume in the west came from the cultivation & agriculture that many native indian tribes used.
But anyways the science community is pretty rested on the fact that we are omnivores, the teeth/claws pointers go out the door when one considers human intelligence. We made spears & bows, its much easier to kill an animal with them from afar.
The digestive tract debate does nothing but prove that humans as we already know thrive off a large plant based diet & that plants/fruits etc should be a strong staple in our diet.
The enzyme debate is basically lack of science, to put it simply without going into all proteomics & such. The very fact that humans can digest meat regardless if cooked or not, is already a huge step in proving we can eat it. If we couldn't we would become ill, vomit/excrete it. Instead we digest & utilise it for energy/nutrients.

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I was also "built" with a brain, giving me the ability to make a decision about what I choose to eat. I may be capable of eating meat, but I'm also capable of choosing not to do so.

From my perspective (or at least from a scientific perspective), the flesh of an animal is considered meat. Since humans are animals, Hominidae of the Great Ape family to be exact, our flesh is considered "meat". Physiologically I am as capable as eating human meat as I am of any other meat, but again, I choose not to do so.

So my point is, just because you have the ability to do things doesnt mean you should! I'm capable of lying, cheating, and hurting people but I choose not to do so. I'm capable of eating animal products but I choose not to do so.