Humans Natural Diet Video

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Humans are naturally omnivores. However, relying primarily on domesticated animals and plants is unnatural. Vegetarianism tends to come about once a human civilization has overshot its carrying capacity (as omnivores) while avoiding disease or warfare events that reduce the population so must become vegetarian (based primarily on crops) in order to feed everyone. Modern vegetarians are mainly protesting the beef/pork/poultry industry and do not understand that the real issues are overpopulation and domesticity, not morality/ethics based on taxonomic rank.

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Humans Natural Diet

Natalie: Before we get started I have a question for you. What do you think man's natural diet should be? In other words as humans, what do you think our diet should naturally consist of, do you think that we are carnivores, do you think that we are especially vegetarians or do you think that we are supposed to be omnivores eating plants and meats. So, leave you comment, let me know, pause the video think about it, let me know and then restart the video. Now the reason why we are doing this video is because I recently did a video on a healthy hamburger and I got a lot of vegetarians on there leaving comments, so they are pissed off because I was showing how to make a hamburger with red meat. So, that has brought up you know the reasoning behind doing this video. A lot of vegetarians think that we are naturally supposed to have a vegetarian diet you know in other words herbivores where they just eat only plants and that would be the strict vegetarians the vegans some vegetarians believe that you can have some animal products in your diet. So we have that and then we have something like the Atkins diet which is the other extreme which is almost all you know carnivore type diet all meats and animal products. So, there is this big spectrum of what people think that they should be eating and that what we are talking about today. We are not really talking about the ethical reasons why someone would be a vegetarian are there more reasons, or the religious believes behind being a vegetarian or you mean actually the health reason is behind being a vegetarian. Those things can be discussed in another video but today we are just looking at what man has eaten in a natural diet, you know way back in permitted years, what was our natural diet and you know and you can leave your comments if you have any religious ideas behind being vegetarian or if you have more beliefs behind a vegetarian that's fine, you can leave your comment but the point of the video is not to discuss that. I understand if you have chosen to be vegetarian for those reasons but today's video is just to look at what the natural diet of the human or of our species has been and is. If you were to just look at current times and just to look at the present diet, only about 3-4% of all societies all cultures of all countries are vegetarians and even a smaller of that about 1.5% are vegan which is strict adherents to only plants based foods and no animal products and no animals what so ever. So, about 97% of the entire population of the world is currently omnivore which is the combination of plant foods and animal foods. So, the fact is that the current diet of this world right now is omnivore. So, that's not debatable, that is just a fact of our present diet in the world and so now we are going to be talking about what actually the diets have looked like in the past. Now if you are historian or religious scholar you know that scriptures such as the bible talks about people eating lamb meats, animal products. So, those types of things are present, people have been omnivores in biblical times and then if you look at Hindu scripture which some historians believe dates back 2500 BC in their scripture they talk about not being a meat eaters. Now if that mentions not being meat eaters in their religious scripture, it sounds like to me that obviously there were meat eaters in that time, in order for them to say that it was not you know allowed or was not recommended according to their religious beliefs. So, as far back as we have scripture, history as long its been recorded we have people that were omnivores. Now we are actually going to go even further back than that, further back from even the recorded history that we have. I have an article here written by John Mikado and he is a vegetarian and he is also a PhD and he is currently a scientific advisor to the American Anti-vivisection Society, he is also an animist and a primatologist. So, in other words, he is a vegetarian, he studies anatomy and he is also studies apes and so he has written this article and the title of the article is Humans are Omnivores. Just going to read you the introduction of this article as he says "There were a number of popular myths about vegetarianism that have no scientific basis. In fact one of these myths is that men is naturally a vegetarian because our bodies resemble plant eaters not carnivores, in fact we are omnivores, capable of either eating meat or plant foods and the following addresses the unscientific theory of man being only a plant eater. One point that the doctor mentions is about fermenting that. Okay, now what these are basically their additional stomachs that herbivore animals, so herbivore animals would be animals that only eat plants. So this would be like the cows, so you may be heard that a cow has four stomachs. Now these fermenting bags are basically separate stomachs where these plant foods can hangout and the microbes and bacterial can attack it and start to digest it and break it down. Well, humans don't have more than one stomach. We don't have an area for plant foods to sit and ferment and for bacteria to you know begin to break it down, I mean a little bit of that goes on in our small and large intestine but its not the near the capacity and we don't have additional stomachs like herbivore animals have. Well, Doctor Mikado talks about in this report is that humans are opportunistic feeders, in other words we can eat what is available, whether it be plants or whether it be meats or meat products. Our anatomy and our digestive system is very generalized, so compared to other animals some animals have such specific digestive systems and such specific anatomy but they can only have like one kind of plant. For example the panda bear can only have a very limited diet like one type of plant and if they don't get that then they are not going to be healthy animals but with humans our digestive system is so general that we are really able to take advantage of whatever food is available. Now if you are look at DNA, our human DNA is actually the most similar to the DNA in pigs and chimpanzees and that what pigs and chimpanzees are both omnivores. They eat both plants and animals and animal products and they are opportunitistic, so they eat whatever is available whether it be plants or whether it be animals and animal products. Now I just want to mention two more points that are mentioned in the article and I am also going to put a link to this article in the video description. So you can access the article you can read it for yourself but let me just read you something that he writes in here it says as "follow back as that can be traced, clearly the archeological record indicates in omnivores diet for humans that included meat. Our ancestry is among the hunters and gatherers from the beginning. Once domestication of food sources began, it included both animals and plants and then his conclusion was that humans are classic examples of omnivores and all relevant. There is no basis, anatomy or physiology for the assumption that humans are pre-adopted to the vegetarian diet. For that reason the best arguments in support of a meat-free diet remained ecological, ethical and health concerns. So, there you have it the information about whether humans are supposed to be naturally omnivores or not and feel free to leave your comments if you want to argue you know feel free but really the point of this was not to discuss all the reasons why people are vegetarian because we actually will be doing more videos on vegetarianism and healthy diets vegetarians, healthy foods that people incorporate it if you are going to be vegetarian because we are getting a lot of request for that, so we definitely are going to be doing some future vegetarian videos, but leave your comments, rate the video, thank you so much for watching, please subscribe and I will see you next time, bye.

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Natalie: Before we get started I have a question for you. What do you think man's natural diet should be? In other words as humans, what do you think our diet should naturally consist of, do you think that we are carnivores, do you think that we are especially vegetarians or do you think that we are supposed to be omnivores eating plants and meats. So, leave you comment, let me know, pause the video think about it, let me know and then restart the video.

Now the reason why we are doing this video is because I recently did a video on a healthy hamburger and I got a lot of vegetarians on there leaving comments, so they are pissed off because I was showing how to make a hamburger with red meat. So, that has brought up you know the reasoning behind doing this video.

A lot of vegetarians think that we are naturally supposed to have a vegetarian diet you know in other words herbivores where they just eat only plants and that would be the strict vegetarians the vegans some vegetarians believe that you can have some animal products in your diet. So we have that and then we have something like the Atkins diet which is the other extreme which is almost all you know carnivore type diet all meats and animal products. So, there is this big spectrum of what people think that they should be eating and that what we are talking about today.

We are not really talking about the ethical reasons why someone would be a vegetarian are there more reasons, or the religious believes behind being a vegetarian or you mean actually the health reason is behind being a vegetarian. Those things can be discussed in another video but today we are just looking at what man has eaten in a natural diet, you know way back in permitted years, what was our natural diet and you know and you can leave your comments if you have any religious ideas behind being vegetarian or if you have more beliefs behind a vegetarian that's fine, you can leave your comment but the point of the video is not to discuss that. I understand if you have chosen to be vegetarian for those reasons but today's video is just to look at what the natural diet of the human or of our species has been and is.

If you were to just look at current times and just to look at the present diet, only about 3-4% of all societies all cultures of all countries are vegetarians and even a smaller of that about 1.5% are vegan which is strict adherents to only plants based foods and no animal products and no animals what so ever. So, about 97% of the entire population of the world is currently omnivore which is the combination of plant foods and animal foods. So, the fact is that the current diet of this world right now is omnivore. So, that's not debatable, that is just a fact of our present diet in the world and so now we are going to be talking about what actually the diets have looked like in the past.

Now if you are historian or religious scholar you know that scriptures such as the bible talks about people eating lamb meats, animal products. So, those types of things are present, people have been omnivores in biblical times and then if you look at Hindu scripture which some historians believe dates back 2500 BC in their scripture they talk about not being a meat eaters. Now if that mentions not being meat eaters in their religious scripture, it sounds like to me that obviously there were meat eaters in that time, in order for them to say that it was not you know allowed or was not recommended according to their religious beliefs. So, as far back as we have scripture, history as long its been recorded we have people that were omnivores. Now we are actually going to go even further back than that, further back from even the recorded history that we have.

I have an article here written by John Mikado and he is a vegetarian and he is also a PhD and he is currently a scientific advisor to the American Anti-vivisection Society, he is also an animist and a primatologist.

So, in other words, he is a vegetarian, he studies anatomy and he is also studies apes and so he has written this article and the title of the article is Humans are Omnivores. Just going to read you the introduction of this article as he says "There were a number of popular myths about vegetarianism that have no scientific basis. In fact one of these myths is that men is naturally a vegetarian because our bodies resemble plant eaters not carnivores, in fact we are omnivores, capable of either eating meat or plant foods and the following addresses the unscientific theory of man being only a plant eater. One point that the doctor mentions is about fermenting that. Okay, now what these are basically their additional stomachs that herbivore animals, so herbivore animals would be animals that only eat plants.

So this would be like the cows, so you may be heard that a cow has four stomachs. Now these fermenting bags are basically separate stomachs where these plant foods can hangout and the microbes and bacterial can attack it and start to digest it and break it down. Well, humans don't have more than one stomach. We don't have an area for plant foods to sit and ferment and for bacteria to you know begin to break it down, I mean a little bit of that goes on in our small and large intestine but its not the near the capacity and we don't have additional stomachs like herbivore animals have.

Well, Doctor Mikado talks about in this report is that humans are opportunistic feeders, in other words we can eat what is available, whether it be plants or whether it be meats or meat products. Our anatomy and our digestive system is very generalized, so compared to other animals some animals have such specific digestive systems and such specific anatomy but they can only have like one kind of plant. For example the panda bear can only have a very limited diet like one type of plant and if they don't get that then they are not going to be healthy animals but with humans our digestive system is so general that we are really able to take advantage of whatever food is available.

Now if you are look at DNA, our human DNA is actually the most similar to the DNA in pigs and chimpanzees and that what pigs and chimpanzees are both omnivores. They eat both plants and animals and animal products and they are opportunitistic, so they eat whatever is available whether it be plants or whether it be animals and animal products. Now I just want to mention two more points that are mentioned in the article and I am also going to put a link to this article in the video description.

So you can access the article you can read it for yourself but let me just read you something that he writes in here it says as "follow back as that can be traced, clearly the archeological record indicates in omnivores diet for humans that included meat. Our ancestry is among the hunters and gatherers from the beginning. Once domestication of food sources began, it included both animals and plants and then his conclusion was that humans are classic examples of omnivores and all relevant. There is no basis, anatomy or physiology for the assumption that humans are pre-adopted to the vegetarian diet. For that reason the best arguments in support of a meat-free diet remained ecological, ethical and health concerns.

So, there you have it the information about whether humans are supposed to be naturally omnivores or not and feel free to leave your comments if you want to argue you know feel free but really the point of this was not to discuss all the reasons why people are vegetarian because we actually will be doing more videos on vegetarianism and healthy diets vegetarians, healthy foods that people incorporate it if you are going to be vegetarian because we are getting a lot of request for that, so we definitely are going to be doing some future vegetarian videos, but leave your comments, rate the video, thank you so much for watching, please subscribe and I will see you next time, bye.

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