Why We Are Biologically Vegetarian

When you think about it, plant-based food makes the most sense for humans biologically.  Although we have made enormous technological progress over the last few millennia, our bodies have developed more slowly.

Many people will say that we are omnivores.  This is not really accurate.  If you study the digestive systems of vegetarian animal species and those of carnivorous animal species, you will see that the plant eaters have much longer digestive tracts.  This is because plant material moves very quickly so it needs to spend a bit longer inside us to enable the body to extract the maximum nutritional benefit from food.

Plant eaters also have much lower levels of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs, which makes breaking down meat very difficult.

This is not the case for carnivorous animals, however, who have much higher levels of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs, and shorter digestive tracts.  This is because meat moves far more slowly and if the digestive tracts were too long, the body would start to absorb toxins.

In addition, the digestion of meat taxes an animal's body far more heavily.  Consider the classic image of a lion lazing sleepily on the savannah after feasting on a gazelle.  It takes a lot for him to digest all that meat, and he certainly does not eat it every day.

So consider our Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).  It violates us biologically on two levels.  It ignores the fact that we have extremely long digestive tracts.  It also ignores the fact that even if we had short digestive tracts and were biologically set up for meat-eating, we should not be eating it every day.

So here we are, a bunch of biological vegetarians, cramming ourselves full of meat and dairy pretty much at every meal and short-changing ourselves on our needed vegetable  intake.

Now some would point out that eating vegetables is a much more lengthy ordeal, especially when they are raw (the best way to eat!).  To follow my reasoning, the plant eaters in nature spend almost their entire day eating.  They have all the time in the world to chew their food, effectively crushing the tough cellular membranes in the plant material and accessing the nutrition inside.

We don't have that kind of time, and even if we try to eat all the raw veggies we need, we miss half the nutrition because we don't have the time to break down the food.

Enter modern technology.  I've learned that some of the high tech blenders, like the Blendtec Hp3a, actually pulverize the food in a way that allows complete access to the nutritional benefits.

So it would seem that the modern industrial strength blender could be the solution that allows us to meet the needs of our biological design without detracting from the needs of our technological advancement.