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Originally Posted by astrahl
Humans NEED plant food in order to maintain a healthy digestive tract. Just look at REAL carnivores...our relatives, the apes. They have the dentition that suggests a more meat based diet but a large part of their diet is plants.
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This is basiclly wrong. The great apes eat less meat than we do (traditionaly and modern times) and some species are 100% vegitarian.
One theory why humans are intelligent is that switching to a meat based diet allowed us to support the larger brains. Vegitarianism is a very new concept for humans, and has only been supportable on a mass scale, in any sort of healthy manner in modern times.(past populations have been vegitarians by circumstance and they had health issues because of it).