RE: The redneck strike again.
May 19, 2014 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 9:51 am by Confused Ape.)
(May 19, 2014 at 8:15 am)Losty Wrote: You didn't translate the quote
I want to know what the heck that means
Which quote do you mean? I was just answering Riketto's question about whether humans can salivate at the sight of raw meat.
(May 19, 2014 at 3:55 am)Riketto Wrote:(May 18, 2014 at 9:56 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I went to the Ananda Margo site and found this article about the Anando Margo Diet.
So what you make out?
As I said in that other post, the Anando Margo diet includes dairy products. I then went into the fact that the ability to tolerate milk as adults is an adaptation from when humans invented animal husbandry but the adaptation hasn't spread to all humans on the planet. Do you honestly think our remote pre-human ancestors ran around with buckets so they could milk wild aurochs and make butter and cheese? If you insist that eating meat is unnatural for humans you'll have to include dairy products as being unnatural for humans as well.
All the evidence points to humans being omnivorous because animals survive by adapting. This includes the Giant Panda which has survived by adapting.
Quote:Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is over 99% bamboo.[4] Pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion.
Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda's diet is primarily herbivorous, consisting almost exclusively of bamboo.[22] Pandas are born with sterile intestines, and require bacteria obtained from their mother's feces to digest vegetation.[33][34] However, the giant panda still has the digestive system of a carnivore, as well as carnivore-specific genes,[35] and thus derives little energy and little protein from consumption of bamboo. Its ability to digest cellulose is ascribed to the microbes in its gut.[36][37] The giant panda is a "highly specialized" animal with "unique adaptations", and has lived in bamboo forests for millions of years.[25] The average giant panda eats as much as 9 to 14 kg (20 to 30 lb) of bamboo shoots a day. Given this large diet, the giant panda can defecate up to 40 times a day.[38] Because it consumes a diet low in nutrition, it is important for it to keep its digestive tract full.[22] The limited energy input imposed on it by its diet has affected the panda's behavior. The giant panda tends to limit its social interactions and avoids steeply sloping terrain to limit its energy expenditures.[39]
Humans being omnivores doesn't mean that people are obliged to eat meat and fish as long as they have the luxury of being able to get all the nutrition they need from nuts, fruits, dairy products and plants. It's also a luxury being able to get vitamin B12 from manufactured supplements if people don't want dairy products and eggs either.
Western style junk food isn't confined to factory farmed meat products. A vegan will be in poor health if he/she eats too much sugar, salt and soy.



