The redneck strike again.

[Little Rik]

Rubbish.
We do have shorter bowel length than herbivores but not as short as carnivores or omnivore.

Not true, the average length of the human small intestine is 7m, so around 4-5 times the length of the body. The average length of a pigs small intestine is around 15 m, which is approx. 7 times the length of a pigs body.

Gee, i didn't know that you are such a cherry picker to choose a pig as a reference.
Even the Vegan skeptic site confirm that but at the same time confirm that
the length of human intestine is a lot longer than the one of meat eaters.
Now talking about the pigs you got to remember one thing.
We got domesticated pigs and we got wild pigs looking like this guy.


Now if you look at the teeth of a domesticated pig you will find a total different set of teeth as you can see here

What this means?
It means that as the teeth are different also the digestive system is different.
While a while pig need to kill and eat meat as well as other veg. items it need a shorter digestive system than a domesticated pig which is fed manly with non meat items that is why the digestive system vary from the two.





Length of Small Intestine
CARNIVORE: 3 to 6 times body length
HERBIVORE: 10 to more than 12 times body length
OMNIVORE: 4 to 6 times body length
HUMAN: 10 to 11 times body length

This is not an accurate measure for omnivorous pigs whose, “small intestines have an average length of 15 to 20 m”Source. For those of you who aren't entirely familiar with the metric system a pig has a body length a little over one meter.
http://veganskeptic.blogspot.com.au/2010...vores.html


The human intestine is ten times longer than the length of the body......
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/Anne...sino.shtml

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My advice to you if you are a vegan is to supplement your diet with B12, or eat fortified foods.

Thanks for your advise.
For peace of mind i have not washed the vegies i get from my organic garden for years unless after the rain when the mad get stuck in the plants.

Sorry but i have been through this sort of argument before when i was dealing with smokers.
Many non-smokers were telling me that i should take it easy but the fight was not won by these pacifists.
It was won by a small group of people like me who went to court several times until the politicians realized that there was no way that the law could stay as it was

Come now, "you" did not win any fight against smoking, it was part of a long term cultural change supported by clear evidence of the harms of smoking. It had nothing to do with people making idiotic arguments about smoking being "natural" or not, and if people did make such arguments it would have undermined the case for stopping smoking. What is natural is completely irrelevant to what is ethical or not. Similarly there is emerging evidence that meat is harmful to health, but to use arguments that are so obviously moronic, such as it not being "natural" undermines the credibility of other arguments against meat eating.

Wrong jg.
When i used to drive taxis in Sydney in the 70 and 80 me and other drivers went to court several times to back up one another in the fight against smokers who took us to court for not letting them smoke in the taxi.
After several times that the courts could not find us guilty finally the N.S.W. gov. pass a law that prevent anyone to smoke in the taxis if the driver put a sign on the window.
Soon after the gov. decided to forbid smoking also in bus and trains.
Soon after follow in the public offices, then in the shopping centers.
But taxis were the first to win the fight.
Thanks to God.