By Dennis Renner
The realization of human survival and our food choices are becoming main stream. With our world reaching over 7 billion in population it has become obvious that we cannot feed everyone on animal based foods. 90% of the calories that we feed to animals are lost in the production of animal based foods. It is just not sustainable. The argument goes that humans require animal based foods in their diet in order to be healthy. Is this true and did we evolve to eat animal based foods as many claim?
If you believe in evolution then you have to accept what science has discovered about the human body and how it has evolved. The idea that primitive man ate a diet primarily of meat is flawed. At best early man was an omnivore with the greatest part of his diet being plant based.
Let’s look at comparative anatomy of herbivores and carnivores. There are many similarities, but there are very distinct differences. First off herbivores have no claws; Carnivores have claws, and long sharp teeth on the end of a long snout for ripping and tearing hide and flesh. Herbivores molars are not pointed but flat for grinding. Herbivores jaws have the ability to move sideways to aid in there mastication. Carnivores and omnivores have very little sideways jaw movement and swallow their food whole. Herbivores have pores in their skin to perspire through; Carnivores perspire through the tongue to cool down their bodies. Carnivores have evolved very acid saliva with no enzymes for digestion. Herbivores have alkaline saliva with ptyalin enzymes to help digest fruits and grains. Carnivores have very strong hydrochloric stomach acid to help digest flesh. Herbivores have evolved stomach acid twenty times weaker than carnivores. Carnivores have evolved a relative short digestive track to pass the material through quickly so as to not absorb too many fats. Herbivores have evolved very long digestive tracks in order to aid in extracting nutrition from plants.
Now let’s look at human anatomy and see how the human has evolved. Humans have no claws, their teeth are flat and their jaws move sideways for grinding and chewing their food before swallowing. Humans have pores in their skin that they perspire through to cool themselves. Humans have evolved hydrochloric stomach acid twenty times weaker than all carnivores. Humans have alkaline saliva with ptyalin enzymes for digesting fruits and grains. Humans have evolved a very long digestive tract like other herbivores.
When you examine how the human anatomy has evolved it is obvious that we are herbivores. There is a lot of scientific evidence but one of the most notable is that humans will generally become ill or dye when eating uncooked flesh like a wild carnivores. Humans do not contain the stomach enzymes that kill harmful bacteria and parasites that carnivores do. Also all carnivores produce enzymes that neutralize the uric acid in their diet, humans produce no such enzymes. When a human eats a diet high in animal products they suffer a number of heath problem associated with uric acid. Gout, kidney stones, kidney failure, arthritis, certain cancers, cardio vascular disease. and now uric acid has been connected to chronic brain ischemia in humans.
Humans do not digest animal proteins well, and animal based foods cause many detrimental health issues for humans. Second because humans are anatomical evolved herbivores we thrive on plant proteins. Science clearly shows herbivore anatomical evolution in humans.
Still the great human hunter is how many choose to see our ancient ancestors. It is true animal proteins have made up a percentage of human diet for some time now but to have evolved our human anatomy took millions of years and it clearly shows that for most of that time we were herbivore.
( Clarification, Omnivores also share jaw designs, stronger levels of stomach acids, long snouts and many other traits more related to carnivores than herbivores.)
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