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That
jibes with what Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine President
Dr. Neal Barnard says in his book, The Power of Your Plate, in which he
explains that “early humans had diets very much like other great apes,
which is to say a largely plant-based diet, drawing on foods we can pick
with our hands. Research suggests that meat-eating probably began by
scavenging—eating the leftovers that carnivores had left behind.
However, our bodies have never adapted to it. To this day, meat-eaters
have a higher incidence of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other
problems.”
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: 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).
In fact,
our hands are perfect for grabbing and picking fruits and vegetables.
Similarly, like the intestines of other herbivores, ours are very long
(carnivores have short intestines so they can quickly get rid of all
that rotting flesh they eat). We don’t have sharp claws to seize and
hold down prey. And most of us (hopefully) lack the instinct that would
drive us to chase and then kill animals and devour their raw carcasses.
Dr. Milton Mills builds on these points and offers dozens more in his
essay, “A Comparative Anatomy of Eating.” |
