Authors note: I am just placing scientific discovery here in a black and white sense. Animals are animals. Animals have emotions, I know. What do we do in return for our meat consumption? Positive peaceful actions would be a good start in exchange for their nutrients.
Milton (1999) findings suggested that humans have a long history of eating meat.
An ape’s gut has a colon, a large winding tube designed to process a vegetarian diet.
Human gut is dominated by the small intestines. Proteins are rapidly broken down and nutrients absorbed.
The human body doesn’t produce Vitamin A and Vitamin B12. Both of which are vital for human survival. These two are found in meat.
Milton, K. (1999) A hypothesis to explain the role of meat-eating in human evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews pp 11-21
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)8:1%3C11::AID-EVAN6%3E3.0.CO;2-M/abstract
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