Why do people say we have meat ripping teeth...?!
Why do people say we have meat ripping teeth...?
when we don't? I mean I don't look like a lion.
Answers: In reading the answers so far, I don't think people are understanding the question. I'm sure the questioner is not denying the existence of incisors, but wondering why people insist that we must be made to eat meat because we have them.
Those teeth may be a millimeter longer than your other teeth and a little sharper, but that doesn't mean we are natural predators. Incisors might make it a little easier to eat meat once it has been taken off of the animal and cooked, but the fact remains that we lack the instincts, speed, claws, jaw strength, larger teeth, and ability to safely digest raw meat that are characteristic of almost all predators. Try running a deer down on foot, catching and killing it, then tearing the flesh off and eating it without tools or fire and see what happens. They aren't very educated. we do have meat ripping teeth, it's the Sharp canine teeth. Humans have a Mixture of teeth for plants and meat, which is why we are omnivores. We aren't like Lions because all of the lions teeth are for eating meat, we are like Monkeys. For the same reason they say we only have one stomach and an omnivorous intestinal tract. You still have canines though, just not as prominent as a lion's. I always wondered this, too. If somebody thinks that people are naturally supposed to eat meat, tell them to try this experiment...Take a bunny and an apple. Put them in a playpen with a baby. Which one do you think the baby is going to try to eat? If the baby EVER tries to actually eat the bunny, I'll buy you a brand new car. With leather interior. Look in the mirror. Your eye teeth are canines and in young people are quite noticeable. Many of us also show a tendency for our molars to be carnasial (sharp edges instead of flat). They're called incisors and that's what they are for. Molars are for grinding plants. Because we do.The third tooth from the front is the sharp(ish) canine, which is meant for eating meat. The front flat teeth are for scraping meat off bones, and corn off cobs, and your back molars are for grinding your food-kind of like a cow-which is an herbivore (doesn't eat meat).
As for bunny/apple person. No a baby will never try to eat a bunny, because they don't understand that it's food yet. That is a learned behavior. Most animals have the instincts that when something smells good, it's edible. Until bunnies are cooked, they don't really smell good. However, if you gave the same items to our ancestors from about 2.5 million years ago, you'd have neither a bunny or an apple at the end of the day.
We're genetically omnivoes, people. Get over it. we do there called canine near your front teeth check in mirror you don't look like a rabbit either. sorry to be the one (of many) to tell you but you have both meat eating and cud chewing teeth. We don't have flat teeth like herbivores. Please take a basic lesson in biology.
The incisors, cuspids, and bicuspids are used to cut and rip apart meat and that the molars are all used to grind and crush harder items like nuts and vegetables etc. The homosapien species has ALWAYS been omnivorous, eating both vegetables and meat. Human beings cannot survive eating JUST meat or JUST vegetables. We need meat for hemoglobin in our blood and for the protein that helps our neural synapses in our brain. We need vegetables to keep out cellular processes working and our motor and sensory perceptions and coordinations straight. Hence, why we are omnivorous and why our teeth are diversified in both morphology and physiology.
And please, the bunny/apple scenario is the stupidest thing I have ever read. Stick a baby in a playpen with a bunny and an apple (where the bunny can't get out of course) and at the end of the day you'll have a very injured baby (from the rabbit of course because babies get curious and want to play with things they find. I'm sure rabbits, even tame ones, won't want to be subjected to a baby handling them roughly), an apple (babies don't know to eat this either, nor do they have the teeth to consume it. Saliva is not going to soften an apple enough for them to eat it.), and a rabbit crazy to get out (possibly dead from beating itself against the walls of the playpen). Just because they are not as long as a lion's teeth, doesn't mean they are not canines for tearing meat. Because people want to believe that we were meant to eat meat. They're in denial! Please, those sharp little teeth are NOt for ripping flesh. Try it! Buy a piece of ham with the skin on and try gnawing through it with those canine teeth. Those teeth are meant for piercing tough rinds and tubers, not skin and muscle and bone. What a crock. Lions do not have the same teeth as us because the are carnivores, they eat meat exclusively. our mouths do not look like a rabbits either, who are herbivores. we share canines, used for ripping food (this doesnt only apply to meat, it also applies to other tough foods you need to tear.) that carnivores have. humans are classified as omnivores, so we also have molars for crushing food, similar to herbivores. it ridiculous to make an experiment out of putting a rabbit and an apple in a childs crib. of course a child is not going to pick up a rabbit and just start gnawing on it. i wouldnt either. (though i know my sisters two year old will chew on ANYTHING, and sometimes sucks on the disgruntled cats tail) we were not born to be either carnivores or herbivores. keep in mind that if we werent meant to eat meat at all, then all humans, not just vegetarians wouldnt have any desire to eat it. if you dont want to eat meat dont, if you do, then do it.