Not to nitpick, but it's not even natural for humans to eat raw meat. Homo erectus controlled fire by at least 1.7 million years ago. Our physical evolution since has been shaped by cooking food.
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(I have no problem with people that want to be vegetarian or vegan, it’s just simply a bad and flawed argument, and there’s probably at least one or two things your going to need to supplement)
I'd go further than this. We are descended from a lineage that overwhelmingly eats leaves and fruit. For primates, meat is an occasional treat. Our teeth and digestive tracts reflect this. There is even an extinct Homo species whose teeth suggest they ate grass.
That was not my point at all.
Perhaps this will help. The human family tree is often compared to a bush. There are lots of cousin species who died out (as we will one day). So I take extinct relatives for granted.
Our gut is unique because we evolved to eat cooked meat, which was my point. We don't have the classic carnivore set up b/c we had a different evolutionary trajectory. We are decidedly *omnivores*, not "occasional meat eaters". We know what occasional meat eaters look like: the other primates.
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you can look at your teeth vs a cats or dogs.
This actually sometimes used by the “natural” pro-vegan or pro-vegetarian claims to say we aren’t made to be meat eaters. We are, just cooked meat.
We don’t have like 4 stomachs which would be more like made for vegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Made_Us_Human
Perhaps this will help. The human family tree is often compared to a bush. There are lots of cousin species who died out (as we will one day). So I take extinct relatives for granted.
we don't have like four stomachs because we are not grass eaters
however, meateaters have short intestine, but we have long ones.
(not saying that occasional meat eating is unnatural)
It also has to do with the order of things