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Title: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: mistybear on June 20, 2009, 14:29

                                                                      Eating Meat Is Not Natural.

                                                                                   LINK (http://www.alternet.org/story/140643/eating_meat_is_not_natural/)

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Simon on June 20, 2009, 14:45

What rubbish!   ;)

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We don’t have sharp claws to seize and hold down prey.

No, but we have steak knives.   :devil:

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: davy51 on June 20, 2009, 19:09

Quote:There is no more authoritative source on anthropological issues than paleontologist Dr. Richard Leakey, who explains what anyone who has taken an introductory physiology course might have discerned intuitively -- that humans are herbivores. Leakey notes that “[y]ou can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand ... We wouldn’t have been able to deal with food source that required those large canines” (although we have teeth that are called “canines,” they bear little resemblance to the canines of carnivores). 




Let your nails grow and they become claws and we do have canines that have grown shorter from lack of use

Let them watch me tear into a steak and they will realize man is a meat eater  :laugh:

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: GillE on June 20, 2009, 19:21

There's nothing like a peer-reviewed scientific paper by a renowned authority in an independent publication.

And that was nothing like a peer-reviewed scientific paper by a renowned authority in an independent publication.

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Clive on June 20, 2009, 21:14

I'm sure Sam will help rescue a fair maiden in distress MB.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Sandra on June 21, 2009, 00:35

It must be natural, otherwise there wouldnt be any animals. What are they there for if not to eat.
If we werent supposed to eat them then they wouldnt have been made of food  ;D

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: GillE on June 21, 2009, 01:18

 :o

We're supposed to eat them?!



Sandra, that's the sort of comment I'd expect to hear from a Cr**t**n*st.  Go away and eat a salad to prove you're still with the rest of us heathens  :devil:  :)x  ;D.

(Sorry, but I was so shocked I couldn't bring myself to write the word Creationist without a bit of drama ;) )

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Sandra on June 21, 2009, 02:56

I cant eat salad type stuff Gill, I think it would poison me  :o

I need meat and dairty produce in abundance to survive  :)

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: GillE on June 21, 2009, 10:55

I suspect you're right, Sandra.  After all, you've done without them for so long now that the shock of introducing them into your diet might be more than your body cold cope with.  A bit like me and fresh fruit, I suppose.

Perhaps there's a little bit of Gollum in all of us :) .

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: David on June 21, 2009, 11:54

I dont eat meat anymore......I must admit it is only through preference just not keen on the stuff anymore....not a Veggie though  ::)

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Simon on June 21, 2009, 15:11

You're obviously not using the right butcher, David.

www.donaldrussell.com.  ;)

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Reno on June 21, 2009, 22:15

According to the Encyclopedia britannica (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/207750/fire) the first use of fire was about 500,000 years ago. At that point all you have to do is kill something and toss it in the fire to cook it. Sure you can rip it apart with sharp rocks, but a small cat or dog sized creature can be cooked simply by just tossing it in. No claws or sharp teeth required.

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: Simon on June 21, 2009, 23:33

Yeah, the claws and sharp teeth are probably best removed before eating.  ;D

Title: Re: Eating Meat Is Not Natural.
Post by: GillE on June 22, 2009, 09:14

I wonder if we did start eating meat by eating other creatures?  In many primitive cultures, it is believed that consuming the flesh of your enemies imbues you with their strengths (although if they were that strong, they would be eating you  ;D ) so perhaps we began as cannibals, then moved on to other creatures.