Welcome to our eighth nugget. You'll have to excuse the mess, I'm in the process of
moving. Now the last nugget was hard-hitting but worth the watch. Today we're going to
talk about something that might be a little bit easier to stomach. The fact that we humans
cannot stomach meat. One of the most common arguments against a vegan diet is that it's
natural for us to eat meat. If we're not meant to eat meat, then what are these for?
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Dr. Douglas Graham says "our anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and psychology all indicate that
we are not carnivores." The following is an incomplete list of the differences. It's time
for humans versus carnivores. Tongues. Only the true carnivorous animals have rasping,
or rough tongues. All other creatures have smooth tongues, including humans. Births.
Humans usually have children one at a time. Sorry octo-mom, that's just not natural. Carnivores
typically give birth to litters. Mammary glands. The multiple suits on the abdomen of carnivores
do not coincide with a pair of mammary glands on the chest of humans. Despite your many
pubescent fantasies. Sleep. Humans spend roughly 2/3 of every 24 cycle actively awake. Carnivores
typically sleep and rest from 18 to 20 hours per day, and sometimes more. Perspiration.
Humans sweat from pores on their entire body, carnivores sweat from the tongue only. Drinking.
Should we need to drink water, we cannot lap it up. Carnivores tongues protrude outward,
so they can lap water when they need to drink. Jaw movement. Our ability to grind our food
is unique to plant eaters. Meat eaters have no lateral movement in their jaws. Dental
formula. Molars of a carnivore are pointed and sharp. Ours are primarily flat for mashing
food. Our canine teeth bear no resemblance to actual things, nor do we have a mouth full
of them as a true carnivore does. We think that our puny canines qualify us for eating
meat? We should really take a long hard look at the canines of other non-carnivorous animals.
Claws. Our lack of claws makes ripping skin or tough flesh extremely difficult. We possess
much weaker, flat fingernails instead. We could no more catch and rip the skin or tough
flesh of a deer, barehanded, the a lion could pick mangoes or bananas. So if you think it's
a good idea to do a sneak attack on a wildebeest, take it down with your menacing canines, and
flesh grabbing claws, you my friend, are going to get Mufasa'd. It's not just that we don't
have the capacity to fell our own prey, but we are also biologically and physiologically
not designed to consume meat. Diet pH. Carnivores thrive on a diet of acid forming foods, whereas
such a diet is deadly to humans. Setting the stage for a wide variety of diseases. All
of the plant eating creatures, including healthy humans, maintain alkaline saliva in urine
most of the time. The saliva and urine of the meat eating animals, however, is acidic.
The stomach acid of a carnivore is at least 10 times stronger than that of a human, and
can be 100 or even 1000 times stronger. Intestinal length. Our intestinal tract measures roughly
12 times the length of our torsos. About 30 feet. This allows for the slow absorption
of sugars and other waterborne nutrients. In contrast, the digestive tract of a carnivore
is only three times the length of its torso. This is necessary to avoid rotting or decomposition
of the flesh inside the animal. You can watch nugget number four to hear a little bit more
about meat rotting in your colon. Microbial tolerance. Most carnivores can digest microbes
that would be deadly for humans. Such as those that cause botulism. Tolerance for fat. We
do not handle more than small quantities of fat well. Meat eaters thrive on a high-fat
diet. Uricase. True carnivores secrete an enzyme called uricase to metabolize the uric
acid in flesh. Humans secrete none. And so, must neutralize this strong acid with our
alkaline minerals, primarily calcium. The resulting calcium urate crystals are one of
the many pathogens of meat eating. In this case giving rise or contributing to gout,
arthritis, rheumatism, and bursitis. Thus, the dairy that you're drinking to help your
bones is actually leaching the calcium from them. natural appetite. Meat eaters mouths
water at the site of prey. They react to the smell of animals as though they sense food.
For most people the sights and smells of a slaughterhouse factory farm are so objectionable,
that the industry takes great pains to hide these from us, even going so far as making
it a criminal act to show the reality of our food production. We kill our animals by proxy.
Finding the actual carcass or corpse to be a thing of disgust. We disguise animal flesh
by eating only small cuts of muscle and some organ meats. Even then we prefer to cook them
and camouflage them with condiments. We disguise the reality of meat by changing the name of
the foods from what they really are, to something more acceptable. We do not eat cow, pig, or
sheep, but rather mutton, pork, ham, beef, steak, and veal. And while we don't talk about
being excited to eat blood and lymph, we do get worked up over a juicy steak. So the next
time you're driving down the highway and you see some roadkill, rotting out in the sun,
if you start to salivate, then yeah, perhaps you're meant to eat meat. That's all we have
today. Short, sweet, simple. Be sure to subscribe to the channel for up to date nuggetdum.