| scrapking said:
There's nothing natural about eating meat. There's strong evidence that we are descended from herbivores. Carnivores and omnivores have sharper teeth, stronger nails/claws, the ability to eat raw meat on a regular basis without getting sick, shorter intestines so that they can absorb proteins without absorbing all the cholesterol, throats that are larger in relation to their mouths than ours so that they can swallow meat with minimal chewing (if any), jaws that are offset so that they can clamp down on bone and break it, etc. We are biologically poorly suited to eating meat, which is why so many diseases only come from eating meat. In one study, only 0.06% of people on whole food vegan diets got heart disease, but it's the #1 killer of omnivores. There's no nutrient you can't get from a plant-based diet. There are recommended daily values for calcium, iron, vitamin C, and a hundred other things, but there's no recommended daily value for meat. So not eating meat is *extremly* natural for humans. |
That's just wrong. But you could also say it's an alternative fact. 
but well, the reality is that our nearest living relatives are Chimpanzee and Bonobo (their common ancestor lived after the common ancestor of them both and the humans). Both are clearly Omnivores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#Hunting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Diet
Our (the humans) digestive system is badly equipped for a purely herbivore diet, our intestines are too short. Still we are able to digest fruits, nuts and mushrooms (although the last one poorly). Unlike most herbivores we cannot digest grass, leaves or bark, we just aren't equipped for it. these foods make us sick. Some plant products like seeds we can only digest if we help our digestive system: by breaking it down into flour and baking it into bread.
No actual study I'm aware of is connecting meat and diseases, only excessive consumption of it.
So no, not eating meat isn't natural. That said, a vegan diet poses also no big problem for human adults if done right (look out for Vitamin B12 and maybe iron). It is strongly recommended not to feed children a vegan diet, the risks of malnutrition are way too high. But for adults it is fine.
