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post #91 of 93
9/10/11 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post
Science fiction writers have warned for a long time that those we meet in space almost certainly have a hunting evolution, and we should be prepared for it.
I agree, most aliens are meat eaters, and seem to be particularly fond of carne asada and tacos al pastor.
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post #92 of 93
9/10/11 at 9:55pm
Ducman is right in his original post - the human brain could only have developed as it did by having meat in the diet. Mammals can adapt, even in one generation, to the available food sources, so it makes sense that humans have adapted to different foods in their areas. Look at the Inuit diets with whale blubber, obviously not what all humans eat, but it works for them.

Science says that humans needed meat to achieve our brain size and intelligence.
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post #93 of 93
9/12/11 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by Willowy View Post
It seems, when you read the Bible carefully, that humans didn't eat meat until God told Noah he could after the flood. So I guess you could say that humans were originally made to eat only a vegetarian diet. But after that, human diets developed differently depending where they lived. The Inuit (northern Canada/Alaska) only ate whale and seal meat traditionally, no veggies at all (because nothing grows up there). In India, they've eaten a mainly vegetarian diet for hundreds of years.

If you go by the human body/teeth/digestive system/etc., humans are omnivores. We have the flat teeth and side-to-side chewing action for grinding grains and veggies that carnivores don't have, but we don't have the really powerful digestive enzymes for digesting grasses and wood like rabbits, cows, and other true vegetarian animals have. But humans are extremely adaptable, so it's hard to put a percentage on it.
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