Meat eaters are so uninformed. Can you prove we can digest meat?

Question

A proper link would be helpful if you can find one.....
Also that there is no link between eating meat and bowel cancer.

We are herbivores, prove to me we are carnivores.....

see http://www.powerattunements.com/article118.html

Still no links to justify your meat eating....

Carnivores kill, chew and digest raw meat. Humans cannot do that. No-one here has proven we were meant to eat meat in any sensible way.

Answer 1

"Evidence of our herbivorous nature is also found in the length of our intestines. Carnivores have short intestinal tracts and colons that allow meat to pass through it relatively quickly, before it has a chance to rot and cause illness. Humans, on the other hand, have intestinal tracts that are much longer than carnivores of comparable size. Like other herbivores, longer intestines allow the body more time to break down fiber and absorb the nutrients from a plant-based diet."

ALSO that is ridiculous to say we do not digest corn, what you see is a matter of chewing

Good luck with this group! ;)

Answer 2

Our digestive system is designed to digest meat and vegetables.

We are neither pure carnivore, nor pure herbavore. We are Omnivores. Ultimately this means that the digestive system is indescriminate about what it breaks down.

What is important is that complex protiens are broken into essential amino acids. The digestive system doesn't care whether the source is animal or vegetal.

The enzymes that break down protiens need two things: surface area (which is provided by chewing) and low pH (which is provided by the stomach acids).

The chain is this: Pepsin produced by the wall of the stomach splits protien into peptones. When the food reaches the the duodenum the pancreas produces pancreatic juice. The trypsin present in this juice converts protiens and peptones into peptides. The erpsin produced in ileum converts peptides into
aminoacids.

http://carbsmart.stores.yahoo.net/pdigestion.html

Non protien plant matter gets digested AFTER the stomach when a large amount of carbonate is injected into the food right as it leaves into the small intestine.

The real bottom line here is that before any of this happens, you have a choice of what to eat, how much and when. If you choose to get your protien from veggies, then good for you.

The cancer question is alltogether different. There is far more evidence linking that cancer to a high saturated fat, low fiber diet, than to meat eating. Many, many vegetarian dishes are extrordinarily high in saturated fat, such as palm oil and hydroginated corn oil. Nobody gets away with that one, sorry.

The physical ability to do something should not then become a political argument when reason is enough to justify an action.

You have firm reasons to believe the way you do. I respect that, but don't then use faulty logic to make it a poor point.

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Addendum: Your link is interesting, but flawed. The cooking of protiens (flesh, eggs or tofu) makes it more available and easier to digest than in raw form. The acids in the stomach do not do the digestive work, it is the enzymes. The same essential amino acids are made in a shorter amount of time and with less energy spent.

The digestive tract length is odd, since it takes humans about 24 hours to process foods and carniverous mammals about 3 days. They don't eat as often, nor do they live as long as humans.

Answer 3

Ok, I don't have any links, but I want to know where you stand on this issue. I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that you are a vegetarian. Ok mr./ms. vegetarian, can you prove that we can digest corn? Last I checked (not that I actually physically picked it up and looked), It exits the same way it goes in. Meat, well, there are other nutrients that aid in the digestion of meat. think about it, when a person eats a steak, they are eating MUSCLE. logically, that has GOT to be tough to digest, I mean, it helped support the weight of a cow, Yeah it better be tough! next, the nutrients used to aid in digestion (i.e. Fiber), take care of the tough to digest foods, that's why one needs to have a "Balanced diet". Yeah, follow the food pyramid, and everything works out fine. I swear. If you got a Fred Flintstone kinda guy who puts away more meat than a butcher, then he may have digestive problems, yes, and he could stink up the whole block, true, but if one follows the food pyramid, then one should have no worries. that's just common goddamn sense though, the food pyramid has been on the backs of cereal boxes for years. that's all I have to say.

Answer 4

Well, I know there has been a study that links char when you grill to cancer. And the corn thing was very stupid in my opinion. Check out meat.org and watch the video. Yeah, will change your mind! The biggest assumption is that we HAVE to get out protein from animals, but the fact of the matter is that when we ingest animal protein our body breaks it down and we actually get very little protein from meat. Amino acids are what our bodies break down into protein, not protein from meat! I know my family cannot eat meat since we cannot digest it! The way the government has encouraged SAD (Standard American Diets) is very unhealthy for us all! It blocks our colons and personally I don't think that genetically producing animals by fertilizing an animal by unnatural means so we can kill it brutally then eat it is "natural" for us. Just think about it that way. I'm a Raw Vegan, and have been a vegetarian since I was 12...I haven't died of malnutrition and am healthy.

Answer 5

sorry, but it is some of you who is uninformed - our intestines are far shorter than an intestine of a real herbivore (and of course far longer than of carnivore). our teeth also prove that we are not herbivores, go back to school or try internet find anatomy plate of a herbivore like cow, horse, flying fox, whatever, and human and check for teeth and guts. we, as well as other primates, are omnivores with prevalence of vegetable diet and whole our anatomy speaks of it, also our senses like our vision is somewhere between herbivores and carnivores. i see that you have a reason to be veg, but the "info" you are promoting is very un-scientific, yeah, flawed as someone here said before. Do you really think we cant digest meat? meat protein is actually easier to break up (by our pancreatic enzymes, duh,) than milk protein and many types of plant protein (especially of some legumens). Why does your wish to be veg have to be supported by apparently flawed claims? do you realize that if you fake the arguments exactly in the style this "info" does, you can perfectly argument for any nonsense you choose, like you want an argument why we are strict carnivores? - yeah, there you are, we dont have 4 stomachs or gnawing teeth, so we cant be herbivores - this is exactly the style of your "info", just the other way round, you deside on a concept and gather, twist or make up arguments in favour and discard the rest. sorry. facts over ideology. eat whatever you wish, but dont twist solid facts.

Answer 6

We are neither herbivores nor carnivores we are omnivores, the highest of all self replicating molecule groups. We can and should eat varying percentages of everything (except cellulose as in grass), only ruminants like cows and sheep w. several stomachs can break that down. Hitler was a vegetarian and no doubt had reason to believe that he was in good company. I would v. much like to try Kangaroo if you would be so kind as to buy me a ticket in return for this info.

Answer 7

I think that the majority of people are uninformed. What we shouldn't be digesting is crap foods like fast food and all the other horrible corporate restaurant foods people swallow. That's the real problem. When we do eat meat..eat quality meat. If people didn't eat so much crap, the meat industry would slow down and there wouldn't be so much of a problem.

Answer 8

The fact that we have canine teeth which are used for ripping flesh should say something.

ETA: No, we're not herbivores. Nor are we carnivores. We're omnivores.

Answer 9

So, you really don't know anything about it, you make this statement and want someone else to prove it.

Bring that funny looking jackrabbit to Texas and we'll show you how its done. We bar b que beef, pork, rabbits, fish and nutria, and stomach cancer is nearly unheard of. I think meat prevents it.

Answer 10

I can prove we don't digest corn. It always looks very familiar when it comes out the other end. Yet, there is a lot of corn and corn by-products in the american diet.