I agree that eating a small bit of meat caused a shock to our systems. The whole ecosystem of intestinal bacteria changes once you eliminate meat as your body gets rid of the unnecessary meat-digesting stuff and focuses on veggie-digesting stuff.

However, you cannot deny how I feel and look, nor how my wife feels and looks, on a vegetarian diet. The only downside to it is people like you who feel the need to issue a pre-buttle to vegetarianism despite the fact that I say nothing about it unless asked first.

You're killing yourself with meat, but you seem ok with it and that's none of my business. The global meat industry is the largest single contributor to climate change though, and that's everyone's business, even those who don't think it's real.

Think the argument is is that our bodies aren't actually adapted properly for eating red meat and that it puts unnatural stresses on it when consumed. Most get away with it but plenty don't. Isn't bowel cancer and red meat quite strongly linked?

Any study of our teeth shows that we are adapted to eat various foods, meat included.

As for what is best to eat for long term health...that is a different question. .Anybody with even a rudimentary knowledge knows that human beings aren't meant to live to 70 within its natural environments.

Our bodies weren't intended for long term use. The natural term of the human being in nature isn't that long at all.

There's a biological reason that puberty starts very early.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Sep 2017 6.15pm)

It's not "stupid" as you so eloquently put it. Care to explain then why countries with high seafood intake and not much red meat consumption have significantly less cancers of the digestive tract and less heart disease?

Means nothing. 3% of a chimps diet is meat.
Canine size is not a good indicator.
It seems to me that humans might have begun to eat more meat as they moved to a colder climate where meat was the densest and most available source of nutrition. Just my theory.
We are drawn to what is nutritious and in the modern world, all food stuff is readily available in large quantity. That is where the health problems start. Sugar, salt and protein is appealing and we now eat too much of it.

Inuit and other cold climate races who are forced to subsist on fatty meat diets have also evolved to the point where their bodies can handle it. You are correct that the predominance of processed foods in modern diet is a big part of the problem with the world's health.

This is being exacerbated by the fact that the west's modern meat-heavy "luxury" diet is being exported to emerging nations like China and India, where their massive populations are creating an exponential growth in meat production, bringing with it an acceleration of the ecological and environmental damage inherent in the industry.