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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:12:33 -0500, Ryan Chapin
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> My bet is that the writer, or whoever else was inclined to follow this
> experiment, would get incredibly sick. Tom, I think if you are so sure
> about this, give it a shot and let us know how it goes.
Some of us have been eating raw meat for years. No sickness reported. Au
contraire.
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> The fact of the matter is that we do not have a high enough
> concentration of hydrocloric acid in our stomachs to distinguish us as
> carnivores. All carnivorous mammals have a much higher concentration of
> said acid which enables them to break down meat and digest it properly.
Hydrochloric acid is not required to digest raw meat.
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> 0ur digestive tract is many times longer than the typical carnivore's gi
> tract.
They don't chew.
As the original poster mentioned, we do not have the typical
> teeth of a carnivore. You mention chimpanzees in your post, however,
> looking at their teeth vs. ours, their canine teeth are MUCH longer than
> ours.
My original reply mentioned that those who have sharp knives do not need
teeth. To make it plain, we have brains that take the place of physical
attributes.
Moreover:
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> "chimpanzees, like other primates, eat a mainly vegetarian diet. Dr.
> Jane Goodall, whose work with chimpanzees represents the longest
> continuous field study of any living creature in science history, says
> chimpanzees often go months without eating any meat whatsoever.
So they are incompetent hunters. Tough luck.
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> All you have to do is look at the high rate of colon and other lower gi
> cancers and it's plain that a diet very high in meats is detrimental to
> our health.
A DIET OF MEAT WHICH IS ALWAYS COOKED IS BAD FOR EVERYONE. Man or beast.
Which is why eating lots of fruits and vegetables has been
> clinically proven good for us.
If diabetes is good that would be true.
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> Are we an intelligent and adaptable species, yes.
Some might not agree.
When other food
> sources were scarce, we learned to hunt and ate meat to survive.
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A truly perverse view.
William
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