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Why we should avoid all vegetables -

This guy bends the truth and tells outright lies to make his point. His first line strikes me as the funniest. "Why we should avoid all vegetables." Why should we, even full carnivores eat vegetables. So are humans some kind of super carnivore?

-Our intestines are 2½ times shorter than most
herbivores.

I don't know where he gets this information, but it's false.

Human adults digestive system is about 9 to 10 meters long and their body length head to hips is about 2/3 to 1 meter long, putting their digestive tract at about 10 times the length of the body.

A cat (the closest thing to a full meat eater) has a gut length that is only three times it's length.

And a Horse has a digestive system that is 10 to 11 times longer than it's body length.

So, that's a complete lie.

-We have only one stomach, while herbivores have 2-4 stomachs.

Not all of them do. Horses don't, primates don't even the herbivorous ones. In fact there is a name for herbivores with multiple stomachs and that is ruminant. Not all herbivores are ruminants.

-Herbivores have nearly 60,000 times more enzymes than we have to disassemble cellulose (plant fiber) to obtain the fat and proteins from vegetation and grain.

This may be true, I don't know or care. Two points here are that cellulose is not the only source of energy in vegetables. Also cellulose has nothing to do with the fats and proteins found in plants. Cellulose is a carbohydrate. We can digest the fats in olives, avocados, and coconut. And we can digest the protein in beans like soy (and all fruits and vegetables). So that is dead wrong. But there are plenty of plants with large amounts of natural sugars and starches.

Why We Should Avoid ALL Grains, rice beans etc., mainly because we dont have a GIZZARD for digesting grain ...

That is true and i agree. I don't think we should avoid these things altogether, we can get some nutrition from them, we just can't make them the major portion of our diet.

Carnivores, such as cats and dogs, mainly eat meat. Our digestive juices are most similar to carnivores. In their stomachs, the hydrochloric acid concentration is 15 times greater than in humans so that they digest meat in 10 hours, which accommodates their very short intestines. Humans, however, produce an equal amount of hydrochloric acid throughout the stomach and intestines combined, allowing raw meat and other raw animal products to digest easily and efficiently in our much longer digestive tract within 16 hours.

So what he is saying is that carnivores developed very highly acidic stomachs to accommodate their small intestines? This is ridiculous. They developed short digestive systems to be able to handle flesh in the first place. Requisites of being an obligatory carnivore are a short digestive tract and highly acidic stomachs.

Our teeth are designed for cutting and crushing meat with the help of our dexterous hands.

Our hands are deigned for grasping, climbing and manipulating. Does anyone here think that they could skin and butcher a cow with their bare hands?

Oh and as far as teeth go.



1-human
2-cow
3-cat
4-dog
5-horse

I don't buy it.

I think this guy took some information, made up some, and twisted more. Meat is not the obvious conclusion. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and even tubers are. I'm not saying we are incapable of eating some meat or even grains, but there is no way to justify it being the only thing you eat.