Carnivore/Herbivore

The design of our digestive organs and digestive enzymes today

In The Naive Vegetarian, I talked about Man's evolution and the sorts of food which the fossil record suggests we should eat and what modern primitives, untouched by civilisation eat. This all points to our being a carnivorous species. The third aspect of the evidence confirms this hypothesis by looking at our digestive system and comparing it with those of animals whose diet is known beyond doubt.

There are basically two types of animals in Nature:

1. Herbivores: animals that eat vegetation. They are able to digest and use as food the cellulose which forms the cell walls of all plants.
2. Carnivores: animals that eat herbivores. The carnivore's digestion is unable break down vegetable cell walls.

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