What to tell your meat-eating friends!!!

[gabriele]

I found this today, interesting:

1. Our small and large intestines, like those of other primates, are four times longer than those of carnivores. Because of the long intestines, meat passes very slowly through the human digestive system; it takes about 4 days during which the disease-causing products of decaying meat are in constant contact with the digestive organs (vegetarian food takes only about 1 1/2 days). [4]

2. Our hands are similar to those of apes; they are meant for picking food such as vegetables, fruits, leaves, flowers, seeds, etc., and not for tearing flesh.

3. Our lower jaw, or mandible, can move both up and down and side to side, like the primates'; carnivores' jaws move only up and down.

4. Our saliva is alkaline like that of the higher species of apes; it contains ptyalin to digest carbohydrates. Carnivores' saliva is acidic.

5. Unlike carnivores, we do not have fangs for biting into flesh. Our so-called canine teeth are not truly canine like the dog's. We are not constituted to prey upon animals, rip apart their bodies, or bite into their flesh.

6. Although our gastric secretions are acidic like that of carnivores, their stomachs have four times as much acid; this strong acidic region is necessary to digest their high-protein flesh diet.

7. Carnivores have proportionally larger kidneys and livers than we have; they need these larger organs in order to handle the excessive nitrogenous waste of a flesh diet.

8. The carnivores' livers secrete a far greater amount of bile into the gut to deal with their high-fat meat diet.



Table I (below) indicates that people are closest in structure to animals that primarily eat fruits.


SOURCE: Barbara Parham, What's Wrong with Eating Meat?
Denver Colorado.,Ananda Marga Publications, 1979, pp. 10-11.
Reproduced with permission.

[Revvell]

They don't care.

[gabriele]

true......

my husband is going home for a week and THEY will ask him, for sure!!

[DebB]

I agree ~ they don't care...

I just read last week that it's easier to get a person to change their religion than their diet.

Whooh... *Ü*

[Mary Kay]

thank you for posting. I am a meat eater and I do care (but am no doubt in the minority...LOL.

However, I eat very little meat rarely (and actually want to eat a little more), but that being said those fangs that we have that you say are not true fangs---We do have them. And they are small. This says to me that we can eat small amounts of meat.

Whether we choose to or not, is an individual choice --IMO.

Again, thanks.

Mary Kay

[gabriele]

thank you for posting. I am a meat eater and I do care (but am no doubt in the minority...LOL.

However, I eat very little meat rarely (and actually want to eat a little more), but that being said those fangs that we have that you say are not true fangs---We do have them. And they are small. This says to me that we can eat small amounts of meat.

Whether we choose to or not, is an individual choice --IMO.

Again, thanks.

Mary Kay

Hey there Mary Kay!! I posted it really for those of us who have to face hostile families!! (like my husband will in a few months, they are going to grill him (pun unintended)). I love anthropological studies like this. Everyone is trying to find the "right" answer......

[ruffsongraw]

this is always a funny angle. i have horses & dogs. i see both sets of their teeth daily. the (as you said--) "so- called" canines we have are HILARIOUS when compared with those of a canine (or feline). our teeth look WAY more like a horse's teeth (flat bottomed and level without spaces in between). and the side to side motion we are capable of in our jaws is for *grinding* (like a horse does to GRASS/hay) & the best part i read in the Matthew Grace book (so good) was the question of whether we've been born with the physical attributes God gave us to kill and tear apart other animals with our bare hands? (in other words without guns, knives, spears---etc). No. lets see somebody walk into a pasture and kill a cow. first, it would out run us. & if we did catch it (how, without a fence or rope?), how would we kill it with our bare hands? humans dont have the strength. haha. then compare this lack of ability with a TRUE predator's abilities--like a tiger or wolf (or dog). they CAN catch, kill and rip apart prey. without any weapons or tools. just their God gievn physical attributes. this proves what we were designed to eat, in nature.
so i think its funny when ppl say "well we DO have canines...".

but i agree. ppl who eat dead fellow creatures can SELDOM be persuaded, even through obvious LOGIC, to change their ways. only when a person is ready to change or if they only eat a little meat anyhow & wont miss it, will they give it up.

shrug.

jen

[The French One]

To that, my sister would reply that you're not made to be vegetarian either because cows have four stomachs. And that we are made to be omnivorous, just like ape are (they eat insects).
I don't think we can really win by arguing.

[ruffsongraw]

horses only have one stomach. ruminants (cows, goats, sheep) are in a class by themselves with multiple stomaches.
i think its a small handful who might change their ways when approached with logical facts. very few. i just think the argument about us having actual canine teeth is a funny one if you open a dog's mouth and look.
i think eating insects is an insectivore, not a true carnivore or omnivore, so that might not qualify. ? i do think babboons, who have those gigantic canine daggers, do eat meat. but they are monkeys, not primates.