Cardiologist William C . Roberts ( the editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology , and the medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center ) says without hesitation that humans aren ' t physiologically designed to eat meat , stating : " I think the evidence is pretty clear . If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores , it doesn ' t take a genius to see where humans line up .”
Indeed , there are literally dozens of such physiological characteristics that show quite clearly that humans are clearly not designed to eat meat , and thus not meant to hunt it or farm it either . Consider the following chart that identifies just some of the same :
In essence then , just because our ancestors “ naturally ” made grave dietary errors in our species ’ distant past in order to survive dire circumstances , does not make it wise or prudent for us to repeat those same mistakes today .
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