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> >>That's why "veganism" can never be scientific: it IS
> >>nothing but dogma.
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> It's based on comparative anatomy, and on the chemistry of the human
> digestive system.
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> Name ONE carnivore or mostly carnivore with intestines 10 times the
> length of the trunk?

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'Comparative Digestive Physiology

Among the various species throughout nature, the length of their particular
alimentary canals also differs greatly in relation to their natural food. The gut
of the carnivore is 3-6 times the length of their body. They require a short,
smooth, fast-acting gut since their natural flesh diet becomes quite toxic and
cannot be retained within the intestine for long without poisonous putrefaction
taking place. The gut of the herbivore is sacculated for greater surface area,
and is 30 times the length of their body. Its herb and grass diet is coarse and
fibrous, requiring longer digestion to break down cellulose. The length of the
omnivores alimentary canal is generally 6 times its body trunk size. The gut
of the frugivore (like humans) is also sacculated and is 12 times the length
of its body. The length of the adult human alimentary canal is about 30 feet.
The human digestive tract is about four times as long as the carnivores. The
intestine of the carnivore is short and smooth in order to dissolve food rapidly
and pass it quickly out of the system prior to the flesh putrefying. The human
digestive tract is corrugated for the specific purpose of retaining food as long
as possible until all nutriment has been extracted, which is the worst possible
condition for the digestion and processing of flesh foods. Meat moves quickly
through the carnivores digestive tract and is quickly expelled. The human
lengthy intestine cannot handle low-fiber foods including meat and dairy very
quickly at all. As a consequence, animal foods decrease the motility of the
human intestine and putrefaction almost invariably occurs (as evidenced by
foul smelling stools and flatulence), resulting in the release of many poisonous
by-products as the low-fiber food passes through, ever so slowly. In humans,
eventual constipation may develop on a meat-centered diet. Colon cancer is
also common, both of which are rare or non-existent on a high-fiber diet
centered around raw fruits and vegetables.
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http://www.iol.ie/~creature/BiologicalAdaptations.htm