: Just to clear a few things up, my bunny hugging friend, we as humans were designed to eat meat. Go grab a mirror. Go on now, I'll wait. Got it? Good. Now open your mouth and look at those four teeth in front. Pretty sharp, huh? Kind of like a dog's, huh? Well, there you go.Love the rigour of your scientific testing of your hypothesis.
But you are right, are canines do look _kind of_ like a dog's. All mammals are related and all their teeth look _kind of_ like each others. But they are all specialised for their particular diets. Which is why dogs (and other carnivores) have extremely large, fang-like front canines. I presume yours do not really look like a dog's (ie the top ones don't hang right over the lower ones) and that instead you have really quite small canines, not disimilar to the plant-eating gorilla family.
Our teeth evolved to cope with mainly plant food, with the occasional bit of meat.
And apart from our teeth, we also have the long gut associated with herbivores (as opposed to carnivores like dogs etc who have the shorter gut associated with a meat diet which is faster to digest).
But perhaps the most important aspect of our biological make-up that suggests we should be living on as little meat as possible, is the fact that true carnivores (dogs etc) do not digest cholesterol - it goes straight through their guts and does not eanter the bloodstream. Whereas humans (and herbivores, if they were to eat meat) take the cholesterol into their bloodstream where it helps to block arteries and lead to heart disease. The obvious conclusion to draw is that we did not evolve eating cholesterol (meat & animal products) and we are unequipped to cope with it.
Freddy
