Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[No_God]

Once you use something that is not in your nature for long time you tend to make an habit of. That of course does not mean that it is normal.

Chimps are exclusively omnivores. They are classified as omnivores. According to Jane Goodall they are omnivores. Their diet mainly consists of fruits, seeds, nuts, flowers, leaves, insects, killed prey.




The Jane Goodall Institute says the following:

Chimpanzees spend about 6-8 hours a day foraging for food. Their diet includes a variety of foods such as fruits, seeds, berries, leaves, pith, barks, resins, and plants. Fruit and vegetable species make up the bulk of the chimpanzee diet while insects, bird eggs and meat from small and medium sized mammals provide additional sources of food. Among the mammal species which are hunted, killed and eaten are lizards, bushbuck and bushpigs, colobus monkeys and baboons."

It doesn't matter if meat is a secondary source of food or not. The simple fact that they hunt and kill prey to be eaten implies they are exclusively omnivores.

Since humans share 99% of their DNA with chimps it's obvious that we would be omnivores too. The Smithsonian labels the early human Ardipithecus ramidus as an omnivore. So we evolved from omnivores and like chimps, we are omnivores.

http://www.chimpanzoo.org/african_noteca...er_14.html

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/huma...us-ramidus