Canines in Humans mean we eat meat right? Those teeth are not canines by a stretch.
Question:
My nutritionist said that our incisor teeth resemble the fangs of a carnivore and explained how we are thus meant to eat meat naturally. The incisors may at least be evidence of a carnivorous stage in the evolutionary development of man, which in no way undermines an argument that man is progressing naturally away from that type of diet.
Fred's Answer
Our incisor teeth are not even close to fang like canines, and especially telling is the shape of our mouth, which is not designed to seize mammals by the throat. The incisor teeth in humans are the same shape as the other great apes, and the great apes certainly did not evolve from a carnivorous diet. Man is not progressing naturally away from a meat-based diet. Man is primate and primate has fruit based diet. I worked for 2 years at a primate center in South Florida, and their diet was all fruit, not meat. The only meat on the premises was the chicken, raw, fed to the alligator in the pond. Meat for the alligator, fruit for the primates. That is science. It could be proved tomorrow that chimpanzees have a hereto-unknown mastery of language and critical thought but that would not change the scientifically acknowledged diet that it has thrived on for millions of years.
If we ever had to, in life and death situations, we could survive on meat, but only raw meat. Cooked meat is less dangerous for parasites, but has no life force, just like other food exposed to fire. If you were starving to death and had a choice of fish, raw or cooked, you would have to choose the raw. Raw meat could sustain life if you did not succumb to parasites.
Fangs, canines, are you kidding? Imagine trying to kill an animal with your mouth right now. Imagine try to penetrate the hide of animal with the teeth that you have in your mouth. Come on.
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