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Originally Posted by Laz116
The middle way is definitely fine with me, since I'm trying to walk it myself. About us being meat eaters from the start of our carrier as humans, I think there are wild discussions about that. Our teeth does not point entirely in that direction as far as I know (but I know little of biology). Anyway I don't think it's very interesting whether we were "meant" to eat meat or not. I am more interested in whether meat eaters live longer and healthier lives than vegetarians. My guess is quite they don't. Could they live longer and healthier than vegetarians. Perhaps.
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Meat has a higher nutritional value than plants. Just because humans started to eat meat, they started to make tools (to hunt the animals, instead of only scavenging them) and they had to start cooperating to hunt the animals down (if you wanted more than rabbits). These things increased the brain size and thus intelligence of early man.
About our guts, ever seen a pure plant eater? Ever seen the bellies on those animals? Our bodies aren't designed to extract as much nutrition as possible from vegetables. But they are also not designed to for pure meat either. Which, in my eyes, is enough evidence that we are not supposed to be vegetarians
by nature.
Now, some people may profit by it, as HappyMartin apparently does, or people may feel uncomfortable by eating something that came from a walking entity (plants do live too, you know), but don't tell me we're made vegetarians, because we aren't.
But most importantly, let the people who like to eat meat do what they want and let the people who don't also do what they want.
I do agree that bio-industry should become more animal friendly though. Animals have a right to go outside and smell the wind too. Luckily, farmers around here are finally seeing the light... (slowly, but they are farmers, so we don't expect them to change over-night
)