Guest guest Posted April 11, 2004 Report Share Posted April 11, 2004 Fair rebuttle I concede flawed logic on the suckling point in fact to to long after I sent that e-mail I cringed at the stupidity of that point and that any one reading it would imediately assume that the whole argument was crap cause I botched that point. , EBbrewpunx@c... wrote: > all mammals suckle..its part of wot makes em mammals... > gorillas are vegetarian, and they suckle.....elephants..etc > while we might have started as omniverous, i think it was still very much > bent toward the vegetative aspect of the diet..fruits and leaves and all that.. > we make horrible carnivorous leanin omnivores.....we don't even have claws... > sure..we were built to eat all sorts of things..but i think the basis of our > diet as the forest around us sank and we began to venture out into the new > spreadin savannahs of africa was more veggie, with the occassional lizard, a > birds egg, ooo..and some nummy termites... > the austrolopethicines were vegetarians... > > The fact > > that we suckle points to an omnivorous diet. Modern Vegans like > > there Hindu forbearers CHOSE not to be omnivorous for distinctly > > moral reasons. Chimps and Bonobos (Pigmy Chimps even more closely > > related) our closest living relative are consummate omnivores and > > even cannibalistic on occasion. The idea that humans started out > > vegan and somehow strayed into omnivory is naive at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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