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Our nearest relatives, the primates, eat little to no meat and have very similar physiology to us. We seem to be a little bit better adapted to eat meat if necessary but our bodies are still optimized for extracting nutrients from plants.

https://www.peta.org/living/food/really-natural-truth-humans...




As much as I love animals. Do you really want me to take Peta for a credible source?


That was just the quickest reference I had to hand. Here's another:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancest...

We don't have the physiology of a carnivore at all. We look a lot more like herbivores that may have made some small adaptations to include some meat in our diets if necessary.


Is an error to think that true herbivorism is a "primitive" trait. They are very evolved in fact.




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