I have been searching arguments all day on both sides and I don't know if these sites are biased or not, but all the arguments for veganism are really well established, while the ones against are retarded. One website gave a bunch of good reasons why you should be a vegan, and then one of the arguments against it was "it's too expensive." Other arguments against it on that website are just as retarded. I personally eat meat but with all the arguments I have seen I believe I should cease to eat meat (but I have yet to discover an unbiased source). The human teeth are made similar to other herbivores, they are more rigid and less sharp and made for eating plant matter. Carnivores have sharper teeth, made for tearing away meat from the bone, and also have a short viscera that gets rid of the bacteria a lot of meat has, while humans have a long viscera, made for digesting the plants slowly while taking out nutrients and other healthy things for the body. It seems as if the human body is designed to be a herbivore from the arguments I have read.
TL;DR:
Although I have been on a lot of biased websites, it seems as if the human body is made for eating plants and not meat. We can still receive protein in the form of many substitutes.
Thoughts? Discuss! I found some of this really interesting. Also, is pain in animals subjective?
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Because it tastes good
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Omnivore Master Race
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Humans are omnivores. They have teeth for both grinding plants and tearing flesh. Plants alone do not satisfy our dietary requirements. Anybody that tells you otherwise is factually wrong. There's absolutely no health benefit from going vegan; it's purely a choice made out of moral concerns about exploiting animal life.
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There's zero good reason to be a vegan or vegetarian. Humans are supposed to eat a myriad of different types of foods.
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Ask our ancestors what made their brains so large? It's no coincidence that the majority of the most intelligent animals in the world are omnivores or carnivores.
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meat tastes good. That's that.
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Steak
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I thought we had canines and cutting teeth designed for tearing meat, as well as teeth for grinding. And wasn't our appendix meant to kill the bacteria and whatnot that came into our bodies from eating raw meat?
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Edited by Thunda: 4/8/2013 11:31:24 PMBecause it's tasty.
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Meat is tasty
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Humans are omnivores. /thread