The redneck strike again.

[James2014]

The link say.........."The human intestine is ten times longer than the length of the body,... It's minimum length is 507, its maximum length 1194 centimeters (17 to 35 feet);... so how did you work out that insted it is 4-5 times?

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Here i got a very interesting link (all peer of course).
Here we are all involved.

http://christwire.org/2012/03/vegetarian...-morality/

Firstly, that was not a scientific study but a quote from a textbook from 1889! All the other sources and the conclusion of the source you cite, ie the actual website, says the length of the human intestine is between 7 and 8m.

To quote from your source..."the average length of the human intestine can be anywhere from 6 to 8.5 meters in length depending on size and age of the person it occupies."

or again "the length of the entire human intestine can range from 7.5 to 8.5 meters (25 to 28 feet)."

or again "The small intestine in adults is a long and narrow tube about 7 meters (23 feet) long. The large intestine is so called because it is wide in diameter. However, it is shorter than the small intestine - only about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long."


Secondly, some simple maths can show you are wrong. Lets say the average length of the intestine is as you say around 12m. No lets say the average height is 1.6m, that would still only mean the intestines are 7.5 times the length of the body, way below the lower boundary of the length of a herbivores intestine, which according to the vegan sceptic site is around 10 times the body.

Thirdly, It says minimum length is only 5m, so surely that would mean according to your logic that some humans must be omnivores right, as an intestine length of 5m would mean it is only around 3 times the length of the body.