Humans are naturally plant-eaters

[Benson]

Blog post by Michael Eades on the relative health impacts of meat-based hunter diet vs. plant-based agricultural diet.

The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. » Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers

There's some theories that the increased calories, protein, and Omga-3 hominids got from eating game, in conjunction with the planning required to bring down big game, were as much a part of the evolution as were the changes in environment that were occurring at the time.

Yes. And Paranthropus boisei, the one human ancestor who appears to have gone down the road of vegetarianism as a primary means of nutrition, was an evolutionary dead end.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0502151343.htm

[C Norris]

I was gonna say how human the skull on the right looked - it was human doh!

I'm guessing you'd pick up some nasty bugs and parasites if you feed on the same things hippos do. But when they say grass, how big do they mean?

[Schwellington]

thats why we have canine teeth folks

for ripping and tearing meat!

[Pwned]

Sorry to revive this thread, but we have canine teeth as a means of survival, we hardly need them when we can walk down to Safeway and steal a sandwich.

Great article on our plant eating ancestor though. Interesting...I do believe eating meat in part helped feed our larger brain. I wonder if there is anything else on the topic.

[musclehead]

There is plenty of evidence which goes against this hypothesis. We wouldn't have survived and developed if we didn't eat meat, it's as simple as that. Meat provided the nutrients and calories we needed to feed the growth of our brains.