If we were meant to be veggies, why are animals made of meat? Discuss.?

Answer 1

Same reason our body built by nutritious and dedicated flesh, does not meant to be eaten by animals or someone powerful than us. (Of course there were in the history of cannibalism, tyrants butchered human meat does not take into account).

Human evolved intellectually, does not kill others for territory, does not kill for survival, does not rape in public, and the same reason we have a choice for gracefully avoid killing others to eat. We no more living in the law of jungle. If someone keeps speaking abt the "food-chain" part, then he is "exceptional".

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —Albert Einstein

"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret. . . It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." —Albert Schweitzer

"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." —Albert Einstein

"You are what you eat." —American proverb

Answer 2

Animals including humans are not made of meat! They are made up of many different body tissues and meat is the name given to muscle tissue when removed from the dead animal! Offal is the name given to most of the other tissues!
Not everyone including many scientists and nutritionists DO believe we were meant to be herbivores, we still after thousands of years have the teeth of an Omnivore. The front teeth are for gripping and tearing both meat and vegetation and the back teeth are for grinding the things we eat into a pulp! That is the reason we dont have either the flat teeth of a true Herbivore, or the large canines of a true Carnivore! Until the onset of farming we were hunter gatherers and as the foods we eat now are huge compared with the natural versions (ever seen a wild strawberry)we could not have evolved without eating meat.
The only reason people can live on a full Vegetarian diet now is because of Global transportation. If every person living in the UK now had to rely only on the crops that grew here naturally there would not be enough land to cultivate it, we'd starve to death. Hell most foods we eat like Potatoes and Rice and 90% of fruits are not even natural here! It's science not nature that gives us the chance to choose!

Answer 3

Actually, your body is meant to eat both. Start with your teeth. You can bite off and chew meat as well as grind plant fiber. However, the enamel is too thin copared to true herbivores and will not last a lifetime of chewing and grinding raw plant fiber like rumninant animals do. Many plant foods must also be cooked to be fit for consumption. many palnt food are toxic even when cooked (like a toadstool) while all meats can be and are consumed raw. (steak tartare, carpaccio, rare cooked beef etc). We also have a gall bladder whcich produce a significant amount of bile. bile is only important if you consume meat. It is nor necessary for the digestion of plan foods. Most true herbivores do not have or have very small gall bladders. Your intestines are also designed for both. Short but large intestines for meat digestion, long (because plant fiber is tougher and takes longer to digest) but small intestines mostly for plant food digestion. Also note that plant fibers and materials are always present in human stool, either partially or totally undigested.
The argument that we are designed to be solely vegetarians has no scientific leg to stand on. It is a lifestyle choice that people make nothing more.

Even Albert Einstein did not touch this on a scientific level. He made a philosophical statement rather than ascientific one. And he is a mathematician/physicist, not a social scientist or nutritionist.

Answer 4

Hmm I guess if we were meant to be veggies we have been provided with natural food sources, not just animals to eat. Animals have to be made of meat in order to function, not just for food. Humans are made out of meat, that doesn't mean we should have to eat each other.

Answer 5

Who told you to eat animals? That's just silly. Think about what you are saying. Why do you value eating animals over vegetables anyway? Is it because your parents eat meat or other people eat meat or have you just never even questioned where you have gotten these ideas from? Nobody said eating animals is better than not, you just followed as a sheep what the rest of the herd what doing. Why?

Answer 6

You aren't meant to eat animals. The name 'meat' is a blanket title meaning dead animal flesh. Humans have a herbivorous digestive system. They have become onmivores due to an accidental discovery of eating meat but it is far healthier to live as a vegetarian than it is a carnivore.

EDIT - thanks for the TD, I'm guessing that you didn't like the truths in the film.

Answer 7

Who 'meant' us to be veggies? Nobody that I can think of. The human dentition is omnivore, which means we are EVOLVED to eat pretty much anything we can get. But we can live on a vegetarian diet while we can't long term live on a carnivorous one.
Another answer to your question is, well then why are ANY animals veggies?

Answer 8

How silly. Since the human body is made up of EXACTLY the same chemical composition and protein as animals, that would mean that YOU are made of meat too. If we were "meant" to be carnivores, why are humans not equiped with the skills, teeth, claws, and power to hunt down, kill and consume wild animals? Its only because its readily available in most markets that most people eat meat. Humans are better "designed" for gathering fruits and veggies from the garden. Those two tiny incisor teeth, commonly called "canine" teeth, hardly suit the task of chomping raw animal flesh. Most human teeth are flat, like other vegetarian creatures, meaning we were "designed" to eat plant based foods. If you like eating decaying animal flesh that is similar to your own chemical makeup, then you best be prepared to suffer the health consequences later in life.

Answer 9

People aren't "meant" be to vegetarians but nor are we "meant" to eat meat. There's no such thing as a natural human diet - we're probably the only species that has any real choice over what we consume.

Answer 10

Well, everyones made of something obv.

But over the years, humans being the dominant species have tried and eaten different animals etc. I am sure if monkeys were ruling the earth of something they might do the same. Its really just a matter of society as it evolves x


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