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Meat was the starting point that helped our brains developed the abilities we used to create our civilization, which we all so grandly love.
The idea of "meant" is true, defying that is up to you, but we are "meant" to be omnivores. We share every skeletal feature necessary to classify us as omnivores, along with every other omnivore on the planet. Being an omnivore is our adaptation, it allowed us to digest animal and plant matter, in order to survive easier and fuel our exaggerated energy consumption due to our bipedal nature and our overactive brain activity. In short we would have not been efficient in our current body types as purely herbivore based animals. You are an example of that, no matter what you say if you did not have the ability to supercede your environment, you would have to consume your protein from the animal matter around you or die.
In today's lifestyle we can use common sense, byproducts, and supplements to create a totally herbivore version of man. But that’s not entirely proving that it’s the way things work, it just proves that our technology has gotten to the point where we can control our metabolisms.
Meat is meant for a complete diet, in moderation. Plant is the primary source of our energy, but meat was meant, and is meant. Omnivores supplement their diet with meat.
When I read your panda argument I had a point to throw out there.
"Despite being taxonomically a carnivore, the panda has a diet that is overwhelmingly herbivorous. The giant panda eats shoots and leaves, living almost entirely on bamboo. This is believed to be a recent adaptation for the panda. Pandas incapable of surviving solely on bamboo would have died out and this is how they've evolved. Bamboo is virtually the only food source available to pandas today. It is believed it was originally a supplementary food source, until the panda could find something with a greater nutritional value, as bamboo offers very little nutritionally. Study on this is very limited due to the low population of pandas. Pandas are also known to eat eggs, the occasional fish, and some insects along with their bamboo diet. Wild pandas today do not have very good access to these alternative food sources. These are necessary sources of protein. Some zoos also feed their pandas specially formulated biscuits, fruitsicles or other treats to supplement their bamboo intake. Like other subtropical mammals, the giant panda does not hibernate."
You are backing up your argument with an animal in the middle of genetic division, in other words, your argument would hold water maybe 500 years from now when pandas evolve out there canines. But until then, they are carnivores, adapting to a changing environment or they will go extinct, which is how things are generally looking right now for them. The panda is designed and meant to eat meat, but they eat plant material because they have no source of readily available meat. Thus they either evolve or die. They have no choice but to become herbivore. And they are in the middle of evolution to do so. I suspect unless we keep helping them though, they will go extinct. Not many animals in history we know of survived the switch over.
All I’m saying is your argument is wrong, not your lifestyle. We are modern, we are cultured, we are independent thinkers, and we humans can create and shape our own will and life. You are always free to choose what you eat for whatever reason you determine. But the argument that meat is not meant, is incorrect. More so, your desire not to eat meat stems as a psychological choice, but you as a human being are meant to eat meat. You may decide not to, but you are meant. Until you evolve out of it, you are an omnivore, a creature which consumes both meat and plant material in order to survive in its environment. You are just choosing to defy your own evolutionary design. And with our current technological advances, you are able to accomplish that goal without too much detriment to your health.
Conservation of Energy holds true in this discussion as well. The soy/bean protein you consume, require more energy input to create, then what you would receive from it. The plant is an inefficient design. The people, who put energy into farming the plant, would not be able to survive solely on the plant’s protein intact, they would have to supplement it with outside sources. Since they are using more energy to produce the plant, then they are gaining from the consumption of the plant. The only reason the plant works for your diet, is because you do not have to put the energy into farming it. Otherwise your solely vegan diet would not be able to consist you on the enormous energy output and protein requirement needed to farm the plant.
Technological progress allows you exist on the soy protein, not an absence of “meant”.
Ohh and I hate long posts, but they are so fun to type. Don't hurt me Whisp!
Edit: Hey anybody ever saw that film about eating fast food, think its called Supersize Me. Fast food eating, no matter where is so sooo fattening, even subway type stuff its still semi-bad for you.
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