Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[James2014]

Our digestive system is long about 12 times our body lenghth while the one of a carnivorous animal is only 3 times his body length.

I think it is quite common misconception by vegans that humans are herbivores, though mostly in response to nonsense appeals to nature by meat eaters. Physiologically we have many adaptions to allow us to eat an omnivorous diet, for example in the example you gave above about our gut, it is not 12 times the length of our bodies, but at around 7.5 to 10 m, is around 5-6 times the length of body. This is exactly between that of carnivores and herbivores, and is similar in length to many other omnivores. However humans have evolved to be able to choose what we eat and develop technology/science to allow us to eat a vegan diet that has many health, ethical and environmental advantages. This ability to choose seems just as natural to me as any physiological adaptations we have evolved, so to say it is natural for humans to be omnivores or herbivores is really to misunderstand what these terms mean.

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Why you feel the need to be a dick about it and tell other people what they should or shouldn't eat, despite it being none of your fucking business, is beyond me.

If people are doing something unethical and it impacts on the well being of others against their wishes, would you not say that other people have a duty to protect those that cannot protect themselves? I know you might not agree about whether animals deserve this protection too, but vegans and vegetarians certainly do. We do not do it to be 'dicks', but out of a sense of compassion and duty. I think if more people acted out of these motivations the world would be a better place.