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looking for anyone with experience here to discuss this with
i am open to both pros and cons
( as long as they are not totally negative emotionally)
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Hi Slink,
Since you are open to pros and cons I thought it would be okay to respond.
My #1 concern would be the bacteria factor, and how clean the meat is you are eating. When carnivores in the wild eat meat, they are getting it (usually) freshly killed.
Carnivores are killing it with their own claws. I feel biologically our hands are designed to easily pick and eat plant food and not designed to kill animals. Also our teeth are different from a carnivores, they are not designed to rip the flesh of an animal, even our canines/eye teeth are nowhere near the shape of a carnivores for ripping off flesh and gnawing on bones.
Also their stomach acid is a much higher acidic level than humans, which can handle flesh foods. Our digestive juices are much more alkaline and more approriate to handle plant foods.
From a spiritual standpoint, we were originally given food from a garden, and our ancestors lived much longer when eating a plant food diet.
Some more thoughts on humans vs. carnivores:
walking
humans = two legged
carnivores = walk on all fours (except carnivorous birds)
tails
carnivores have tails
tongues
true carnivores have rough tongues
non carnivores and humans have smooth tongues
claws
carnivores have claws for ripping
humans have fingernails
opposable thumbs
humans are designed with opposable thumbs for grasping and collecting a plant based meal
carnivorous animals with claws designed to grasp their prey/meal
births
humans usually have single births
carnivores usually give birth to litters
colon/intestines
humans have colons 12 times the length of our torsos - allowing for slow absorption of sugars and other water-borns nutrients from fruits and plant foods.
carnivores have a digestive tract of 3 times the length of its torso, necessary to avoid rotting or decomposition of flesh inside the animal.
sleep
humans spend roughly two-thirds of every 24 hour cycle actively awake.
Carnivores typically sleep and rest from 18-20 hours per day, sometimes more.
microbial tolerance
most carnivores can digest microbes that would be deadly for humans (I feed my dog raw meat and she never has problems)
perspiration
humans sweat from pores on their entire body.
carnivores sweat from the tongue only.
vision
our sense of vision responds to full-spectrum color.
carnivores, in general, do not typically see in color.
vitamin C
carnivores manufacture their own vitamin C.
Humans must get it from their food.
jaw movement
our ability to grind food is unique to plant eaters.
Meat eaters have no lateral mokvement in their jaws
dental formula
mammologists use a system called the "dental formula" to describe the arrangment of teeth in each quadrant of the jaws of an animal's mouth. This refers to the number of incisors, canines, and molars in each of the four quadrants. Starting from the center and moving outward, our formula, and that of most anthropoids, is 2/1/5. The dental formula for carnivores is 3/1/5-to-8
teeth
The molars of a carnivore are pointed and sharp. Ours are primarily flat, for mashing food. Our "canine" teeth bear no resemblance to true fangs. Nor do we have a mouth full of them as a true carnivore does.
FN - In parts from page 6-17, 80/10/10 By Dr. Douglas Graham
I am also reminded of the fact that carnivores generally will eat the fluid rich organ parts of an animal first, before eating the flesh and bones. When humans eat animals, they will generally eat the muscle meat and bones, which lacks in nutrition in comparison.
The China Study also cites numerous references and studies in regards to how intact the nutrients are in plant foods, and how a low protein, low fat plant based diet is the most beneficial health-wise.
In spite of everything above which is totally IMO, it is always good to find what personally works for us. Many doctors like to say "keep doing what you are doing" when they see improvments - so it looks like you found what you needed.
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