Whe did man start eating meat and why, since man was created not to eat meat?

Answer 1

You filthy vegetable murderer. Vegetables have feelings too you know.

Answer 2

Humans didn't evolve (or were created for those who believe in god) as vegitarians. We evolved as ommnivores. Look at our closest cousins the Chimpanzees and you will see that they are willing to hunt colobus(not sure on spelling) monkeys and eat their flesh. This is mostly done as sport which would actually explain why maybe they haven't taken the next evolutionary step. since they wait until they are full on fruits and leaves they have no intrest in maintaining their chase if they lose sight of their prey. Gorillas also can be trained to actually give up eating vegetables all together for meat. But as they do not eat it willingly in the wild it would be understandable why they have not taken the necessary steps towards being human. It has been asked why all apes didn't evolve into humans. Obviously as our ancestors did not have the bulk of gorillas or the large canines of chimps or the ablility of monkeys it would seem obvious that the only way for them to survive was to evolve their intelligence.

Answer 3

let's clarify: "humanity" (not just "man") was not created. We evolved from earlier hominids. As our ancestors competed for resources, they developed a number of adaptive strategies. Scavenging - which is most likely how they started eating meat - opened up a new source of food, but more importantly, a new source of much needed and prized protein.This process probably developed around the time they abandoned the trees to become primarily land dwellers, some 4.5 million years ago

Answer 4

We clearly are designed to eat meat since we have canines and other tooth structures designed for eating meat as well as a digestive system that handles meat just fine. We most likely ate vegetation as our staple with infrequent meat and/or insects and other proteins thrown on. Kind of like modern chimps/bonobos.

Answer 5

Of course man has always eaten meat. Look at your teeth.

While an excess of fatty red meat in your diet is not a good thing, most people need iron from animal sources. Iron found in vegetables [non-heme iron] is so poorly metabolized by most human beings that many vegans are anemic.

Moderation in all things...

Answer 6

Man was created to eat meat and started doing so before he became man..
My problem is with the murderous vegetarians who cruely eat
living fruits & vegetables...Ripping innocent carrots out of the ground and chewing their living bodies...

Answer 7

who says man was created not to eat meat??

Answer 8

since when was man created not to eat meat?

Answer 9

I think you have it other way around. Man was most likely solely a carnivore in early forms (there just wasn't that much edible vegetation around and no cultivaiton whatsoever). Over time man realized that eating plants and other things gave him variety and a potentially more stable source of food, especially in winter and gradually evolved into an Omnivore.

Some of this comes form the studies of jaw bones and teeth of our early ancestors by anthropologists.

Answer 10

If man wasn`t meant to eat meat, why do cows taste like steak?

Answer 11

who says man was created not to eat meat?