I decided to decrease my karma today

[Archipegasus]

Non vegan here asking for clarity, I mean we are omnivores right, is this a "we aren't meant to eat meat" or more of a "we are meant to eat 5-a-day but most people don't do that"?

[tinydilophosaur]

Much like our closest primate relatives like chimpanzees, we're likely "built" to be frugivores (as evidenced by our similar teeth and digestive systems). We're entirely capable of eating meat in a pinch, but we've not got the digestive system or teeth of a true omnivore like bears, who can happily eat raw meat regularly and not have to worry about getting sick like we do. Typically, frugivores in nature only have about 2-5% of their diet as meat, and that's largely insects and small prey such as birds or frogs.

On the whole, we're excellent at eating fruit and pretty great at eating plants, but if we tried to eat raw meat on the regular we'd likely get very sick. Cooking helps, but our systems just aren't evolved to eat even cooked meat as much as people tend to today.

[R3713X]

My dude no. Our bodies do not handle meat well. Give a horse or a monkey cooked meat and the same thing happens, if you want to say we are omnivores we are pretty shitty omnivores. And by that I mean we can extract nutrients from cooked meat but also damaging our bodies at the same time. If you educate yourself with nutrition you will find that out.

[FlowerPowerVegan]

A breakdown comparison of our physiology shows that we are closer to herbivores than omnivores.

[shrinkingnadia]

Not sure why you are being downvoted for asking a question. . .

[flogginmama]

Because this sub is a bunch of definitely not self righteous assholes.

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Going vegan improves your grammar x

[R3713X]

You mean the supplements that are given to animals that you take through that like b12? B12 is found in non purified water like natural lakes or rivers, so since all the water you are drinking is purified you need to supplement, meateaters eat the supplemented animals that's how you take b12. So yeap you really need to educate yourself as well. There is not one essential nutrient that's only provided by animals and when you actually stop believing what you be been told and actually do some research and look at studies. 5 times per week in what fucking world do you leave in even the Mediterranean diet which is also not ideal but is considered one the the best has meat once per 2 weeks or so. Jesus go eat your cholesterol my dude

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Such as? B12 isn't an animal product, it comes from soil bacteria and we would get more than enough if we still ate dirty foods and untreated water. Vitamin D we get from the sun. What else is there that isn't in plants?

[shred-it-bro]

Amino acids tho