Originally Posted by weateallthepies:
“The argument is a bit pointless, we have been hunters for as far back as we can tell so it is our disposition to eat meat regardless of anything else.
We are omnivorous not carnivorous so that may explain some of the biological differences but we are most definitely predators.
As for raw meat, the reason is just cultural. We have in the past eaten meat raw and there are still plenty of raw meat and fish dishes around.”
“The argument is a bit pointless, we have been hunters for as far back as we can tell so it is our disposition to eat meat regardless of anything else.
We are omnivorous not carnivorous so that may explain some of the biological differences but we are most definitely predators.
As for raw meat, the reason is just cultural. We have in the past eaten meat raw and there are still plenty of raw meat and fish dishes around.”
Recent, authoritative research indicates that humans haven't, in fact, been natural hunters; hunting was, and always has been, a very limited "past-time" engaged in by men (women, of course, were left at home) for political and ritual purposes, vying for power and prestige. Hunting non-humans for their flesh was never and has never been essential for our survival, was never essential for our diet and never essential for our "health".
Whilst it is true that we can survive on an omnivorous diet, all of the research conducted over decades, across the globe, across all racial and ethnic communities, indicates that a plant-based diet is the most natural and most healthy diet for a human. We have far, far more in common with herbivores (including our tooth and bone structure, gastro-intestinal system, metabolic systems) such as gorillas, than with carnivores such as bears or omnivores such as dogs or pigs.
It is not our disposition to either hunt or eat meat - the vast majority of humans who have ever lived have never hunted and have no intention to do so - there is nothing that "compels" us to do so; and for the vast majority of our history the eating of meat was a very limited, very rare event - most of our diet was plant-based. It's only in more recent times, and especially with the rise of the agri-industrial complex that we are now being told that practially every meal must involve "meat" because it's "essential". Alas, it's not essential - it's dreadfully detrimental to our health... but great for their profits (and those of the pharma and "healthcare" industries who make a tidy packet once we're ill!), but why let reality get in the way of profits for big business eh?



