>Todd Moody opined:
>
>>..Additionally, the gorilla's vegetarian food
>> produces tremendous amounts of intestinal gas....
>
>This is idiotic.  Man-like?  Gorillas were here first; they
>should be well adapted to their food supply.

This statement is uninformed and unprovable. The most
current thought is that modern-era primates descended
from a common ancestor, not from each other. As for
"well adapted", the huge guts of gorillas and orang-utans
likely indicates the need for processing large amounts
of low-nutrient food, i.e. vegetation mostly. The huge
guts of some humans points toward an unsuitable or incom-
patible diet, at least according to Paleofood theory.

But then the originator of the "Bambi-cheese" conjecture
often makes such uninformed and unprovable assertions
based on logic or philosophy, not on scientific evidence.

At any rate, humans diverged from what became apes long
ago, and we have our own unique problems & issues.
Comparisons must be made carefully, especially in the
area of diet. What hasn't changed over the eons is the
need for plentiful exogenous ascorbate in all primates'
diets -- something most other primates in the wild and
zoos have no problem with, namely intakes in the
2-4 g/day range. Humans for the most part persist in
ingesting very low levels, even tho it's widely
available and very inexpensive.