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| quote: | Originally posted by ownymcown
ripped from yahoo answers (not using it as a scholarly source, just makes some good pts)
Humans are definitely meant to be omnivores. Historical evidence shows that early man ate meat. We have the biological system of an omnivore. Hydrochloric acid in our stomachs, NOT found in herbivores, enzymes in your pancreas designed to break down meat, NOT found in herbivores. No cellulase (the enzyme need to fully break down vegetation), cellulase is needed for an herbivorous animal, but we don't produce any. Our intestines are long (generally a sign of herbivorous animals) but our intestines are not nearly as long as a true herbivore. We possess canines, NOT found in herbivores. Do I need to go on? |
sorry just a diversion
horses actually have canines as well.
Try not to use the word DESIGNED its a bit misleading (i know i just used it in my last post) but evolution and organism change is an ongoing process that doesnt have a definite line that segregates. Sure millions of years of divergence has created multitudes of varieties but if you go back to the basics, organisms are meant to be carnivores.
Animals came way before plants and thus they must have been carinvores. Evidence in the human cell shows that one cell engulfing another and living in symbiosis is a product of this carnivorism. This is why we have a mitochondria.
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