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When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop and snack on them? Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate? Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw? If you answered “no” to these questions, congratulations—like it or not, you’re an herbivore.

According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat. Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores and the instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses.

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old comment by Power Skunk

The thin, bladelike teeth, and pointy fangs framing them, you have in the front of your mouth developed out of the necessity to cut and tear meat. The flatter, bigger teeth in the back are better suited to grind plant material, and further destroy flesh. Humans have the dental equipment to be omnivores.

Humans are also pursuit hunters par excellence. The taut springy muscles in our calves and larger muscles in our thighs basically minmax us for endurance walking and running. There are few other species on the planet capable of maintaining a run as long as humans can. One of our earliest hunting methods was to wound the prey and pursue it until it died of exhaustion.

Cooking meat and other foods begins the process of breaking it down into useful.nutrients, and provides more of those nutrients than eating raw would. Seasoning food just came about because we liked the taste of certain foods and otherwise useless plants when mixed together.

Humans are omnivores, and also predators. We also happen to be smart enough to maximise both nutrition and enjoyment of the foods we need.

old comment by Swede

No, no, no and no. The first two only show that I'm not a scavenger. I like the taste of processed meat or very lean and tender meat.

We have teeth for meat-grinding, we have a stomach that can digest meat, we need certain nutrients that is present in meat, and a lot of people enjoy both hunting and fishing. Japanese people like to eat raw fish, and not just the Japanese; there is even a small sushi-bar in my small town.

I have a lot of family members who are lacto-ouvo-pisces vegetarians (they eat eggs and fishes and use dairy products but stay away from all "produced meat", they do eat deer and moose meat sometimes, as they have been allowed to live their normal lives in nature). I have no problem cooking and eating their kind of food for a weekend or so. I know that they need to be extra careful so that they get all the nutrients that they NEED (to stay healthy and alive), but which are not easily obtained if you don't eat meat. That carefulness I, as an omnivore, don't have to think about.

old comment by OHP

When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop and snack on them?

No. Because I'm not a scavenger. You'll find rather a lot of carnivores prefer to obtain their food fresh rather than find it already dead and rotting.

Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate?

Lying on the side of a road? No. Lying on a grill? You bet your ass it does. Actually now I kind of want some grilled chicken...

Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw?

No. I don't daydream about killing much of anything. And given that we've evolved with cooked meals for tens of thousands of years I'm not particularly keen on eating my meat that way. Do YOU daydream about ripping up a wheat stalk and eating it on the spot? Or do you prefer your wheat processed into bread? Fucking hypocrite.

If you answered “no” to these questions, congratulationslike it or not, you’re an herbivore.

If we answered "no" to the question of whether we're scavengers or wolves then we're herbivores by default? I think you need some meat in your diet; the nutritional deficiency is beginning to take its toll on your already lacklustre cognitive capacity.

According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat.

If you were any more full of shit I could sell you to a farmer for fertilizer.

Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores and the instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses.

How do you figure that? We have forward-facing eyes, sharp teeth, we're built for pursuit and -- big one here -- we FUCKING EAT MEAT. Have for tens of thousands of years. What, do you think one of our ancestors accidentally confused a cow for a blueberry bush one day and nobody ever realized the mistake? If we're anything it's technical omnivores with a significant carnivorous bias. If the meat didn't work for us we'd know on account of everyone getting sick and dying of goddamn malnutrition. And there are people who feel a desire to personally kill the animals they consume. They're called hunters. It's a tradition harkening back to the earliest days of our species -- the appropriately named hunter/gatherer period. You fucking idiot.

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"When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop and snack on them?"

When I lived in Oklahoma it was not uncommon to be served freshly road-killed deer. That shit tastes good son.

"Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate?"

Chicken, turkey, quail, pheasant etc. So yeah.

"Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw?"

Raw beef is okay but I prefer medium rare or rare.

And my hands allow for the use of tools. Work smarter not harder.

?According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat"

Liar. We are omnivores evolved from primary frugivores who in fact ate meat from time to time. No anthropologist ever said that.

How many animals did peta kill and then chuck into a furnace last year? More than zero?

old comment by Deep Search

"you’re an herbivore."

... One shouldn't confuse being a vegetarian with being a herbivore. The sane people who believe that eating a plant based diet and cutting out processed foods and added fats leads to optimal health don't claim that humans are naturally herbivorous. The people who claim that eating more plant foods than animal products is healthier definitely don't say that, either.

True, most people don't dig raw meat or look at animals, especially dead ones, as delicious. Throw it on some heat and most people change their tune, though. Humans have a thing going on with fire. I love soy and beans, but they also require some cooking.

old comment by Philbert McAdamia

@nazani14
Lascaux cave art, look it up.

Lascaux, Lascaux, Lascaux...let me see... is that the one where the cave dwellers made paintings of broccoli and Brussel's sprouts on the walls? Spearing cabbages in great hunts?
You now; there are people who point to the teeth of a T-Rex and swear they show plant eaters.
I've known a few people who chose to become vegetarians. There's no convert like a new convert. Their skin became pasty and I swear their mental capacity slowed down noticeably. Proof of that is that some of them even became Vegans after that.
Ever go to dinner with one of them? OMFG what a pain in the ass they can be! You go over to the salad bar...I'll be at the Barbie.

old comment by TimeToTurn

When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop and snack on them?

Actually, yes! If you roadkill an animal in my state and some others in the US, you can legally claim it and have it dressed and eat it, even if it's out of season. When a deer roadkilled itself on my car, the guy in the house I was in front of asked where the carcass was and if I wanted it or could he take it.

According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat.

Did these biologists and anthropologists get their degrees from the same place all the creationist doctors like Hovind get their degrees from?

Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores

True, humans aren't lions or wolves, we are primates. That makes as much sense as saying that because humans aren't cows we aren't meant to eat plants.

instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses.

We cook our meat because it tastes better, it gives us more nutrients cooked (generally), and it almost eliminates the risk of disease.

old comment by Kadorhal

"When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop and snack on them? Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate? Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw? If you answered “no” to these questions, congratulationslike it or not, you’re an herbivore."

What? Just because I'm smart enough to know properly-preserved and cooked meat would be less likely to make me sick than raw roadkill, that means I'm actually a herbivore? Let me go have some cooked chicken then I'll get back to you on that.

Okay, I'm good now.

"According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history,"

Look, paying off experts to say whatever contradictory bullshit you want them to say doesn't work for creationists who want to pretend they're scientists. It's certainly not going to work for you.

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