(March 7, 2014 at 10:24 am)enrico Wrote:Quote: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.
Gee, you could have chosen a different animal.
Everytime i think about pigs i think about meat and shit.
Please change animal.
The human intestine is ten times longer than the length of the body......
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/Anne...sino.shtml
Quote:The vegan skeptic site is very poor, it has no references. The second reference is better, but I don't think you have read it. It says that " the length of the entire human intestine can range from 7.5 to 8.5 meters (25 to 28 feet)." Now unless you think your average person is under a meter in hight, what you say must be complete nonsense. Lets say the average person is 1.6m tall ( which is a bit short, but I am being generous to your argument) 8 divided by 1.6 is 5. Therefore according to your own source, the length of the entire intestine is 5 times the length of the body, which according to the vegan skeptic site means we are either a carnivore or an omnivore. Do you agree? According to your own sources we are omnivores.
As a side note the pigs in the study I quoted were almost 2m in body length, which is why they had a a small intestine length 7 times that the length of their bodies.
I have read far too many references and all of them indicate that the human digestive system is a lot longer than meat eater creature as they need to process the meat very fast as the meat rot very quickly.
Why should we change our comparison between a human and a pig. If a pig is an exception to the rule then why is not human also not an exception.
You say you have read many references that support you conclusion that humans have a long intestines , yet the only reference you have so far sourced that actually refers to some scientific studies demonstrated the human intestines are around 7m, which according to your table would mean have evolved as an omnivore. I am certainly not saying we should therefore eat meat, however your appeals to nature that we should not eat meat are nonsense on two levels. Firstly we evolved to eat meat, and secondly what is and is not natural is irrelevant for moral considerations. Eating meat is awful and wrong, but your argument merely allows meat eaters to make themselves feel better about their meat eating because they can so easily dismiss your nonsense arguments.
