Bajablo said: Jay520 said: I personally don't think it's natural for humans to eat maet.   why o why isn't it? :) neanderthals did it when it was pretty much just instinct-based. Sure, they did it, don't think they thought that much about why, humans have digestive systems that can break down allmost anything (except grass etc.). If your body is capable to eat a certain thing (wo. throwing up.. like with grass i.e.) why wouldn't it be called natural? (since our ancestors waaaaaay back ate meat too) just got stuck on that one line and got interested to hear your thoughts why :) 'cause thats ilogical thinking' /slander /callingNames /rude and all that.. :P

Our teeth aren't capable to rip through the flesh of other animals. We have one set of canines. And even those are incredibly dull. They don't reach downward like the teeth of other predators either. If you think that one set of dull teeth gives us the capability to rip through flesh, then that's your personal choice really.

We can't eat rotted meat like other predators. Other predators have digestive systems which allow them to kill the bacteria that forms on rotten meat. On the other hand, if a human eats rotten meat, he'll probably get sick or die. We have to apply flames to food to avoid illness because our bodies just can't handle it.

Most predators are incredibly agile, strong, and fast, in order to catch their predators. Humans, on the other hand, are one of the slowest, weakest animals to have ever existed. Our bodies aren't equipped to catch other animals.

Predators tend to have night vision. Humans don't.

The leading cause of death in America is heart disease, which is usually caused by excessive fat which is usually from meat.

all of this of course isn't conclusive evidence, but it does lend me to believe that its not natural for humans to eat meat, at least not a lot of meat. It was probably natural for us to eat an occasional insect or rodent, but plants were really meant to be the vast majority of our diet imo.

Bajablo said: Jay520 said: I personally don't think it's natural for humans to eat maet.   why o why isn't it? :) neanderthals did it when it was pretty much just instinct-based. Sure, they did it, don't think they thought that much about why, humans have digestive systems that can break down allmost anything (except grass etc.). If your body is capable to eat a certain thing (wo. throwing up.. like with grass i.e.) why wouldn't it be called natural? (since our ancestors waaaaaay back ate meat too) just got stuck on that one line and got interested to hear your thoughts why :) 'cause thats ilogical thinking' /slander /callingNames /rude and all that.. :P

I am pretty sure neanderthalers didnt just have instinct. I mean they have what it takes to form speech. Plus they also made funerals for their death  they are not just a bunch of  hairless white apes/ monkeys lol.

The neanderthalers seem to had the same reason to start eating meat that we had. Its hard to find alot of plants during the ice age and Its hard to take trees with you when you wander around the world its easier to have animals. Btw they made fire to cook and to warm themselves and tools and weapons to kill etc. so I highly doubt they were dumb and pure instinct driven animals  lol

An animal can die from getting fat too. But they usually don't get that chance, because they die off sooner. Or lack of food. And if humans ate food off the floor, rubbed their food in our own feces, like animals. We'd evolve to coup with those things. Just like animals did. Animals would be all dead if they didn't build up immunities from rotten food and things they naturally do. They don't have thumbs or hands to make a fire or cook stuff.

Would you complain if someone was able to create a Star Trek Replicator. Or figure out how to grow animals. But only their muscle tissue?

Our inability to eat meat without some level of processing can really just be because of a mutation over time. Many believe our bodies became "weaker" in light of accessibility and invention of cooking. And Human's ultimate tool for survival is our minds. Our mental ability to adapt to any situation is what makes us great. We don't naturally sport clothes, neanderthals probably sported thicker skin and more body hair to compensate, but we have changed.

Also an interesting tid bit....we are not the only creatures that cook. Ants actually have a process of cooking leaves(as they cannot naturally digest it just like we can't) which they do chemically with fungus farms.

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Jay520 said: forevercloud3000 said: I don't think there is technically anything wrong with eating meat. Yes, we could just eat more vegetables(the basis of veganism), but I think that fails to acknowledge one reality. Plants are ALIVE TOO! Just because we cannot hear their muffled screams as we tear into their body, doesn't mean they probably cannot feel or that makes it any better than taking an animal life. Unfortunately for us, to sustain life we have to consume other living things for their energy. Death has to take place for life to be sustainable in some fashion, this is just the harsh reality of it all. plants have no nervous system so they can't feel anything.

Would it be okay to kill and eat an animal who's nervous system is messed up and they can't feel pain?

wfz said: Jay520 said: forevercloud3000 said: I don't think there is technically anything wrong with eating meat. Yes, we could just eat more vegetables(the basis of veganism), but I think that fails to acknowledge one reality. Plants are ALIVE TOO! Just because we cannot hear their muffled screams as we tear into their body, doesn't mean they probably cannot feel or that makes it any better than taking an animal life. Unfortunately for us, to sustain life we have to consume other living things for their energy. Death has to take place for life to be sustainable in some fashion, this is just the harsh reality of it all. plants have no nervous system so they can't feel anything. Would it be okay to kill and eat an animal who's nervous system is messed up and they can't feel pain?

That's up to your own morals.

animal dairy products arent natural for humans to consume. also completely awful for you. lets put the meat on hold for now...and work on getting on without dairy filth.

MrBubbles said: animal dairy products arent natural for humans to consume. also completely awful for you. lets put the meat on hold for now...and work on getting on without dairy filth.

If you ever try and take my full fat milk away from me I will pimp slap your head off.

A world without milky tea or cereal is a world I wouldn't want to live in.