Vegetarianism
“We are all living graves of murdered beasts slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. Like crows we live and feed on meat regardless of the suffering and pain.”-G.B.Shaw
Good morning. My topic today is vegetarianism.
Being a vegetarian or non vegetarian is considered just a matter of a family’s choice or a matter of personal attitude. But there are strong scientific reasons which back vegetarian food.
Humans are meant to be vegetarians. I am not saying so in a spur of emotions or moral values. Human physiology clearly justifies the statement. Our history proves it. Anthropology gives a lot of evidences of our descent from apes. All primates have evolved to be herbivores. The prehistoric man had no claws or sharp front teeth to hunt for animals. He roamed about in jungles looking for fruits or roots. Our physiological make up resembles more closely to herbivores than to meat eaters. Apart from the absence of claws there are no sharp front teeth to serve the purpose of tearing. Instead herbivores have flat molars for grinding food. Another feature which makes us more like herbivores is that the intestine is 10 to 12 times its body length. On the contrary carnivores have an intestine that is 3 times the body length so that decaying meat can pass out rapidly. Carnivores have strong hydrochloric acid in their stomach as to facilitate digestion of meat whereas herbivores have hydrochloric acid which is 20 times weaker. All this does not mean that human beings cannot subsist on a non vegetarian diet. We can eat meat in the same way a carnivore like dog can eat vegetarian food.