How humans are not physically created to eat meat

Meat-eaters: have claws
Herbivores: no claws
Humans: no claws

Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue
Herbivores: perspire through skin pores
Humans: perspire through skin pores

Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding
Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding

Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly
Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat
Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.
Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)


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  1. dearvices reblogged this from tarrinj and added:
    I don’t like when people put up charts like that. They fail to note the ways in which humans are created to eat meat....
  2. tarrinj reblogged this from rebeccabone and added:
    While adapting to consume...our ancestry (I think the first hominids were
  3. vagvomslitspit reblogged this from rebeccabone
  4. darlingtristin reblogged this from rebeccabone and added:
    make me eat meat..
  5. vulcanmike reblogged this from rebeccabone
  6. isolateflecks said: I second zeropointnine. Also, no mention of the pesky appendix.
  7. zeropointnine said: So no mention of omnivores then?
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