[QUOTE=GunFox;36537757]They can claim it all they like, but our eyes are on the front of our head. Prey animals wear them on the side of the head in order to detect danger. Predators wear their eyes on the front in order to better detect prey attempting to avoid them.
And really this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a huge variety of other bits of evidence like the fact that humans release endorphins when hunting, precisely like other predators, or the simple back that an herbivore wouldn't need to be anywhere near as intelligent as humans are. Only a combination hunter/scavenger has need of anything even approaching human levels of intelligence.
The mountain of evidence which weighs against humans being natural herbivores far outweighs anything they could even pretend to conjure up. Not only is it not the case, but it would be damn near impossible for anything even approaching a modern human to survive on scavenging without meat and remain healthy. The caloric cost of foraging far outweighs the caloric intake in the vast majority of circumstances.
tl;dr Peta is stupid.[/QUOTE]
The actual reason humans have forward-facing eyes is because we needed it to judge distance when moving from tree to tree some million years ago. The same reason that all other hominids have forward-facing eyes. It just stuck and proved practical for other purposes.
Not that I don't agree with what you're saying, though. I also think the reasons humans are built as we are is because persistence hunting became a widespread way to hunt, and that's why our bodies are adapted to that. Humans are superior long-distance running than most anything else, because of our bipedal stature and naked (as in no hair and plenty of sweat glands) bodies.
[editline]28th June 2012[/editline]
this shit fascinates me:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o[/media]
[QUOTE=Chrille;36538435]The actual reason humans have forward-facing eyes is because we needed it to judge distance when moving from tree to tree some million years ago. The same reason that all other hominids have forward-facing eyes. It just stuck and proved practical for other purposes.][/QUOTE]
Actually most predatory animals have forward-facing eyes, including many omnovores. Even animals that diverged from our evolutionary path ages ago (see:owls etc) have forward facing eyes. Mostly herbivores are the ones with eyes that don't face forward.
The forward-facing eyes trait has been around much longer than hominins.
[QUOTE=Azur;36539287]Actually most predatory animals have forward-facing eyes, including many omnovores. Even animals that diverged from our evolutionary path ages ago (see:owls etc) have forward facing eyes. Mostly herbivores are the ones with eyes that don't face forward.
The forward-facing eyes trait has been around much longer than hominins.[/QUOTE]
You're replying to a point I didn't make. I'm not saying that eyes facing forward started with hominids (I don't see where you got this from), but the reason that hominids, a primarily herbivorous (or insect eating) group of species, have that trait is not because they use it for hunting.
I knew a vegan a while ago, claimed human being weren't meant to eat meat and stayed away from any foodstuff from animals.
He weighed about 6 stone and could only stay awake for like 10 hours a day before he'd need to sleep again.
[QUOTE=GunFox;36538252]Cats and dogs eat grass in order to moderate their digestive system. They are incapable of properly digesting it and [b]deriving nutrients from it[/b].[/QUOTE] Can it still be apllied to carnivores that eat plant matter, no?
[QUOTE=GunFox;36538252]Anyways:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Diet[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_chimpanzee#Diet_and_foraging[/url]
Two of our closest relatives. Both take great pleasure in eating other mammals. Chimpanzees even have advanced group hunting tactics to back it up. These guys diverged from us four to six million years ago. Humans have only existed for two hundred thousand years. There has been a great number of iterations of primate since then. [/QUOTE]
Yes but how often do they do it though? Both links state they consist of mostly herbivorous diet as typical regime, another rarely at all. But yes, we could have advanced or whatever but the truth of the matter is we still have an undeniable herbivorous bias. Can individual diets range from almost exclusively herbivorous to almost exclusively carnivorous? Because it favours the latter. There is alot of ambiguity in each term which makes it complicated to reason with.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;36538271]Monkeys are insects now?
[/QUOTE] Yes.. i know, i've seen and read about it before but the fact that the percentage is lower than eating insects is an example of infrequent, something that is supposedly only 5% of their diet already.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36537505]Amusingly, meat was what helped humans start developing larger brains.[/QUOTE]
Except for those who are PETA
Humans=Pigs Eats anything mkay.
[QUOTE=lavacano;36538058][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Barq%27s_Root_Beer_Logo.svg/200px-Barq%27s_Root_Beer_Logo.svg.png[/img]
the tradition lives on[/QUOTE]
[I]Celebrating two million years of tradition... [/I]:v:
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;36537928]What the FUCK is this godly-looking edible?[/QUOTE]
Bark :v:
Seriously that's what it's called
lol fierst they tell us that we came from dinosaurs somhow (LOL) now they say we eat trees?
lol liberal sudoscience is TOTALY more beleevable than the bibler ight?
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What about peanut-brittle.
[QUOTE=SAULSBASHWALL;36542964]lol fierst they tell us that we came from dinosaurs somhow (LOL) now they say we eat trees?
lol liberal sudoscience is TOTALY more beleevable than the bibler ight?[/QUOTE]
I have been sitting here for an hour trying to work out what the hell this post means, and I have given up.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36543684]I have been sitting here for an hour trying to work out what the hell this post means, and I have given up.[/QUOTE]
its an obvious troll
I love cinnamon (which is a bark)
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36537166]PeTA already claims that we were naturally meant not to eat meat. They'll have a field day with this.[/QUOTE]
Well then we can tell 'em to go eat a tree.
[I]Cinnamon[/I]
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