This has been bugging me for a while now, so I’ll use this post to put down my thoughts.
Was listening to Radio2 and somebody called in, in response to vegetarianism. He said that humans should only be vegetarians because we have an appendix. Therefore we should not eat meat.
Our appendix is useless, it has no function anymore in our digestive system. We can’t break down cellulose, like herbivores can. If you get an appendectomy – you don’t die do you? You can still digest food.
We have carnivorous teeth, to bite into meat. We also have molars to chew and grind meat and vegetable matter. (A side note – Pandas have big incisor teeth, yet only eat vegetable matter).
There.