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1. Our teeth. Just because we have like 4 slightly sharp teeth does NOT mean those teeth are for tearing flesh. Our "canines" aren't true canines, they're actually referred to as "semi-canines." If any meatie tries to claim our teeth are for tearing flesh, tell them to try and bite into a dead cow and see how far they get.

Nope, some gorillas have huge canines and incisors... as do carnivores. We are omnivores... plus, as observed from fossil evidence, along the course of evolution our teeth got smaller BECAUSE we were eating meat. Meat would have been softer than those chewy plant fibres. Especially when we made tools and fire... soft, cooked, cut, meat. No need for huge teeth.

2. Along the same line as the teeth thing: our fingers. Notice anything? We don't have claws! So we can't bite into a dead animal, and we can't claw it open either! We have to make tools to do this for us, and we might as well be using our tools to harvest veggies and fruit like our bodies are meant to!

Again, very early on we were herbivores. When we became carnivores the protein and fats allowed for cognative development... we were smart, we made tools, we were highly successful! you can't just grow claws because you want to. That's not how evolution works. It works by natural selection... and in this case, it was the smart ones who survived, not the ones with big fingernails or anything.

3. Yes, our bodies are meant to eat fruits and veggies. We have a LONG digestive tract, like other herbivores, whereas carnivores have a short digestive tract to get the meat out of their system quicker. Guess what meat does in the human body? ROTS. It sits and rots in your digestive tract because it takes sooooo long to be broken down. Why, because our bodies weren't meant to!

We don't have a long digestive tract... we have a medium one. A lot of herbivores have several stomachs or special sacs where fermentation of plant matter can take place. Or very very long intestinal tracts. We don't. Also, meat DOES NOT rot in our digestive tract. It gets digested and broken up into its constituent fats and proteins. Meat is VERY QUICKLY digested, thus why carnivores have SHORT digestive tracts.

4. Another thing I realized, how come humans are the only animals who have to COOK meat before they eat it, otherwise we'll get sick? Think about that. You can't just bite into a dead animal and eat it, you have to use fire to cook it so it can be eaten. Tell me this doesn't say that humans aren't meant to be eating meat!

Er, we used to eat it raw. Back in the day, our immune systems would have been under constant assult, and therefore more up to the challenge. We were more hardy. We were used to it. You probably wouldn't get sick, if you freshly killed something and ate it. It would be grose, but ... it isn't poisonous or anything. I think we could without getting sick. We cooked because it made life easier. The meat was less chewy and easier to eat.

5. And last, obviously we aren't exactly able to chase down a deer to kill it, now are we? Again, we had to develop weapons and whatnot to catch animals because our bodies aren't able to do it by themselves.

Well, we were herbivores to start off with. Then we ate meat, which allowed our brains to develop. Without meat, we WOULD NOT have elvolved to what we are today. There was no need for us to change because the tools worked fine for us. If we needed to be big and clawy and fast then we would have evolved that way, that's how natural selection works. The survival of the fittest. Obviously tools worked better, the smart ones who made the better tools survived.

I think that you have good points but being that I have eaten meat for 35 years I do like it but i am open to eating your way, I just could not totally go that way completly. I have a daughter that is vegetairaian and I support her 100% and I try everything that I make her. Some I like, some I dont. Some times I choose to eat what I make for her some times I dont but I do respect her beliefs as well as she respects mine.

I think this is totally true, because we were so blindly cruel to animals when the human race started to farm them that we were ok with being cruel to other humans. The invention of the assembly line of slaughter houses in America gave Hitler the ideas for the way to kill the Jews in WWII (that's not a made up fact ok)
"Animals, Slavery, and the Holocaust" Charles Patterson

i agree i mean god gave us all the nutrition we need in veggies, fruits, animal producing like milk, and soy for protein.