Marilyn wrote:

>We are nearly
>completely adapted to a largely vegetarian diet and have been probably for
>the last couple of million years, way before the onset of agriculture. Our
>teeth, type of saliva, arrangement of our jaws and length and structure of
>our colon indicate primarily a herbivorous physiology who could also feast
>on carrion and small slow moving animal/insect life.

No, they indicate a primarily *omnivorous* physiology.   Just because we
can process vegetables effectively doesn't mean our physiology is designed
to live off them as its only food source.

Craig Smith