Americans' reasons for eating vegetarian food

Now a fashionable new name, "vegetarian culture", has emerged in the United States.If you go to a restaurant to eat big meat and fried food, fashionable Americans will shrug and wink at you. I will translate it for you and say, "This guy is still living in the old society now!""According to a new survey, 37% of American teenagers have chosen to avoid eating red meat, and they have become the main force of American vegetarianism today.

Reasons for vegetarian food: evolution and classification determine that humans should not eat meat

As primates, humans can eat a small amount of meat, but they should not enhance their ecological niche without authorization and move closer to carnivores.Humans have evolved in nature for millions of years, and most of the time has existed in nature as a member of the animal world - the tailless, vegetarian apes in the eyes of the primates. Until today, we who blindly emphasize social attributes still cannot get rid of the natural attributes of this "naked ape". Whether you admit it or not, we are vegetarian omnivorous animals.

It is true that among the monkeys all over the world, there are not many carnivorous monkeys, but they are all small, night-moving insect-eating monkeys, such as Japanese infant monkeys, rat lemurs, Japanese marmoset monkeys, etc.Among the large apes, except for humans, there are chimpanzees, gorillas, and gorillas. Their eating or omnivorous or completely vegetarian diets account for only 4%, 2%, and 0% of their food respectively.As we all know, humans, who are both tailless primates, are close relatives to chimpanzees on Earth, but our carnivorous level has far exceeded 4%. Is this contrary to nature?Contradictory to nature?certainly!But what "extreme" can't be done by humans?For example, in order to reduce the cost of feeding, a zoo actually developed scientific research results of "let tigers eat vegetarian food".

From the anatomical perspective, we should not overeat meat.Because carnivores eat high in fat, protein and cholesterol, in order to prevent perishable meat from staying in the body for too long to poison the blood, they evolved into a shorter digestive tract, about three times the length of the body;Because herbivores have high cellulose content in their food, nutrients must be slowly absorbed, so their intestines are very long, and their digestive system is about twelve times the length of their body length.Humans are omnivorous animals, and their intestines are about 8-10 times the length of their body length. Is it closer to herbivores?

Due to the difference in the length of the digestive tract, meat only needs half a day to stay in the body of carnivorous animals, but it takes several long journeys in humans. If excessive fat and cholesterol melt into the blood, it will lead to diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. The toxins in meat will also increase the burden on the liver and even lead to liver cancer.

Some people may say that didn’t our ancestors make a living by hunting?Yes, but that was only a brief stage of human evolution. The longer-lasting way for ancestors to survive and evolve was to collect plant fruits.You may also ask, aren’t the Eskimos mainly eating meat?Yes, but this is due to the environment, and because of this, their average life expectancy is only 27.5 years.

In fact, human vegetarian instinct can be seen by one test: a cat that covers his eyes makes his appetite increase greatly after hearing raw meat like a live chicken, and he will remain indifferent when he hears fruits;On the contrary, humans cannot feel the fragrance of living animals in their natural state. They can only react after cooking, and are very sensitive to the fragrance of fruits. This is the intuitive reaction of human vegetarian nature.

It is a misunderstanding of human beings to regard large intake of meat as a sign of high economic level. Excessive meat consumption only satisfy the desire to be a mouth and the desire to compensate for the past of hunger and poverty, but it deviates from the omnivorous nature and natural ecological niche of human beings.

Lin Nai, a Swedish naturalist who first established human status as a primate, rather than a carnivorous animal, once said: "The structure of human beings, whether inward or outward, shows that grains, vegetables, and fruits are his natural foods, whether inward or outward.”