And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk

the myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.

You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website

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Welcome to part two of a discussion that was inspired by a comment.

I sometimes hear from people. I know you've heard it before, perhaps you've even said it yourself.

Humans were meant to eat me. Just look at my teeth. And then they point to these pointy, but dull little eye teeth that would shame any lion.

I mean, have you ever seen the teeth of a true carnivore?

They really don't resemble human teeth at all, even those so-called canines that we have.

Anyway, today we're going to examine the physiological differences between carnivorous and

herbivorous animals and see where humans fit in.

Before you listen any further, though, I really urge you to listen to part one of this

podcast in which I preface the comparison we're about to make.

For me, the bottom line is that we don't have any nutritional requirement for animals and

animal products. So by virtue of eating them, we are contributing to unnecessary

cruelty. But because I've heard enough people declare, we're carnivores, just look at my teeth,

I think it's worth examining it a little more closely.

When looking at the anatomy of herbivores and carnivores, It's best to start at the means by

which animals come by their food. So first let's look at the teeth and nails.

Urbivores have much shorter and softer fingernails than flesh eating animals and pathetically small

canine teeth.

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