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Anonymous
My brother out of nowhere started saying that he's gonna be a vegan, because he read up that humans are not supposed to eat meat. I tried to bring up the whole meat eating teeth thing but he said that herbivores have these teeth too (wtf??). As well as having herbivore jaws and not being suited for hunting....
/an/ how can I prove him wrong?
>> Anonymous
Punch him 9 times in the nuts
>> Anonymous
Wait for him to get sick and die from a combination of anemia due to iron deficiency, muscular atrophy from amino acid deficiency, and just in general being a giant pussy faggot. Then point and laugh.
>> Anonymous
>>179109

all the vegans I have known have been scrawny, pale, gassy, and smelled like fucking shit. hope your faggot brother enjoys never getting any pussy again with the exception of unshaven herpes-laced hippies. also, aids.
>> Anonymous
Why bother? He can do fine, just tell him to do his research. I'm not a vegan, but I know some who do alright. If he can go through with it, all the power to him.
>> Anonymous
Leave him alone for a month and strictly enforce the vegan diet on him. Eat heartily yourself. See how long he lasts before he cracks. If he makes it through the month, congratulate him for his will. I mean, you'll get the last laugh at his premature funeral or just early onset of old age and failing health.
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
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Show him this picture. Point out where we have canine teeth. Note the name of said teeth.

Canines are for gripping onto squirming prey. They hold it there while the incisors (note the name again, incisor, from the word meaning 'to cut') split open the flesh. Human premolars are generally quite sharp as well, cutting and tenderizing the meat before it is swallowed. Some people also have sharp molars, though generally they are worn somewhat flat by the time they are elderly.

Yes, incisors can also cut plant materials. Yes, molars are excellent for grinding down plant material. They can also grind down and snap bone.

Our jaws also hinge vertically, and do not move horizontally near as much as those of herbivores.

If someone honestly believes that humans are supposed to be vegetarians and not omnivores (leaning towards carnivorous, like bears and raccoons), please ask him to sit on some middle school biology classes.
>> Anonymous
I'm sure that nature never intended to evolve the human jaw for eating Twinkies, but they still do a great job of it.
>> Anonymous
1) vitamin B12 is naturaly produced in meat and the only way to get it is to eat meat (or take a supplement) Though that would still allow him to be a granola eating hippie, it also defeats what caused him to be one in the first place. There is another complex protein from meat like b12 too i forgot the name. As for your organs- we started eating meat so quickly that some organs became adapted to meat and some to vegies or grains. There is no diet out there that is perfectly healthy. Any diet will strain you a bit. Lean red meat is damn good for you.
>> Anonymous
protip: lots of vitamin B12 in avocado.

Not that i in any way advocate being a fucking hippy vegetarian in any way. Meat fucking rules.
>> Anonymous
The human body requires 9 specific amino acids to be able to function normally, these amino acids the body cannot produce itself and must be eaten. The best place to get those amino acids naturally is animal meat as it has all 9 amino acids, the only non-meat option for a complete source of amino acids is soy. I hope your brother likes eating a whole lot of soy.

Now, seeing as soy was originally native to east asia, and humans are believed to have gotten their start in africa/the middle east, it stands to reason that humans were meant to eat meat as it provided what their bodies needed since they weren't anywhere near having soy as a food option until much later down the road.
>> Anon
I forget exactly where I read this, but humans evolved to handle much more cholesterol than the other apes. If an ape was fed the same diet we enjoy he'd succumb to heart disease and every other ailment associated with eating meat. The point is, humans evolved to deal with eating meat more often than veggies. Note the appendix and other useless organs, they degraded (in a roundabout way) because we don't use that as often (or at all) like our herbivorous ancestors did.
>> Anonymous
evolution smevolution

God made us with the ability
>> Anonymous
If you believe in evolution, you should realize that humans are omnivores. That's my contribution.
>> Anonymouse !!h5ALjqgB4DE
>>179156
Seems to be about right. Most apes eat a fuckload of fruit and other leaves. They're not going out every day and taking down a deer to eat. Meat is harder to catch than fruit so fuck all that running around.
>> Anonymous
I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
>> Anonymous
If the teeth thing didn't get to him, he must be irredeemably retarded.
>> Anonymous
>>179182
>>179129
Give these men prizes for such great one-liners.
>> Anonymous
If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
>> Anonymous
Tell him that living as a vegetarian will give him all the stuff he needs if he does not totally screw it up, but that as a vegan he will have an extremely hard time.

Also tell him that he will still be fully included in society as a vegetarian, but that he will be seen as idiotic outsider as vegan.

Tell him that there is absolutely no way to feed upon oneself that does not harm any animals. Harvesters for example kill rabbits and rodents all the time.
>> Anonymous
>>179129

Man, I'd like to eat a Twinki once to see how they taste, but they are nowhere to get here in Germany.
>> Anonymous
>>179229
They taste like low-quality sponge-cake and whipped cream. That's about it.
>> Moonbarker Osbourne
For one thing, you can point out to him that even Jesus Christ ate meat, so it can't be a sin
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>179229
As someone who as eaten plenty of twinks, I can tell you,>>179233has it right. It's not worth it.
>> Anonymous
>>179229

You also never, ever, EVAR want to find out what the fuck "saltwater taffies" taste like.

GAWD DAMN YOU ANN M MARTIN AND YOUR BABY-SITTERS CLUB GLOBAL FAGGOTRY!
>> Anonymous
I love meat, (lulz) but you can live just fine without it (note- the meat we americans eat has so much shit in it, it's probably a good idea to be vegetarian at least, if not vegan)
>> Anonymous
>>179270
you are never going to be as healthy without meat as someone who eats meat can be, cooked meat is just too much of an efficient and plentiful source of protein and nutrition to ignore. Animals eat other animals, it's a beautiful thing.....

THE CIIIIRCLE OF LIFEEE!!
>> Anonymous
Tell the guy if he becomes vegan he losses out on some awesome stuff to eat.

Like anything with geleten in it. (skittles, Mike and ikes, Starburst, Jell-o, ETC)

He will have to be on a strict diet. He will be eating alot of the same stuff day after day to get his vitamins that he needs.
>> Rodiath
Ask him if he's eaten meat before, maybe even all of his life? Did he manage to eat it with his "WRONG" teeth? Did it harm him?
>> Maybelle !Xe0eUYi8yM
I was vegan for over a year, and got very very sick. When you're a vegan, your entire life is centred around eating. You have to be sooo careful about everything you put into your mouth, making sure that it doesn't contain any animal products but also that it has enough nutrition to keep you going.

You can't eat out at many places, and anything the restaurant does offer is usually a plain ol' salad. Even french fries or onion rings, things like that, are out of the question because they use the same deep fryer to cook meat products as well.

I got bored with eating the same stuff day in, day out, and that's when I got sick. I couldn't stand another day shoveling down a dozen grape-sized vitamins. Even the smell of soy makes me physically ill now because it was in everything I ate.

There are lots of people that live as vegans, and it's great that they can do it healthily, but tell your brother to take all the negatives (because, believe me, there are more of them than positives!) into considereation before taking the plunge.

Also, you might want to mention that most alcoholic beverages are forbidden, especially beers and wine, because of a filtration process they use that contains animal fats.
>> Anonymous
>>179262
Fucking mental image.
>> Anonymous
Illustrate to him these 3 points:

1) Canine teeth. Herbivores don't have meat shearing teeth like that, and tend to have huge teeth which grow continuously, until they wear away and they starve. Humans don't have that.

2) Small gut. Meat gives out a lot more energy than plants, so we only need a small gut to process it. That's why herbivores like cows are so bloody huge- they need all that gut just to get enough nutrients out of the plants. If we were designed to eat nothing but plants we'd be xbox hueg.

3) Big brain. We evolved big brains because my eating meat we had the energy to fuel it. We didn't get it from nibbling leaves like a monkey. Tell him if he wants to eat plants, go back to Africa and live in trees/get eaten by cave lions, idiot.

Failing all else, enforce the vegan thing, then start cooking bacon/mince/other juicy meat right in front of him so he can smell it. Mmmm....
>> Anonymous
This thread is made of FAIL.
>> Anonymous
>>179468cave lions
LoL
>> Anonymous
>>179468

You should elaborate further:

Animals that are exclusively herbivores have a number of additional biological adaptations to suit this.

Ruminants such as cows have multiple stomachs. Humans don't. They also regurgitate food they have already eaten and re-chew it to extract more nutrition from it (chewing cud). Humans don't. Small herbivores like rabbits are typically coprophagic. They eat their own droppings in order to extract yet more nutrition from it. I sincerley hope that your brother doesn't do that.


Bottom line: the human body is designed to eat an omnivorous diet consisting of vegetables AND meat.

Though, you might back up and focus on WHY he wants to become a vegan.

Speaking of which, he is wrong about the teeth:

Animals that eat plants EXCLUSIVLEY do not have canine teeth at all. For example, Cows, horses, sheep, goats, rodents, and so on. Show him a cow or rabbit skull and tell him to point out canine teeth or bicuspids.

Those animals that do have canine teeth (humans included) either eat meat or they are omnivorous.
>> Anonymous
Fuck, I can't even read this thread. I got through OP's text at my third try, but after that I just couldn't get my eyes out of OP's image...
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>> Hyper Cutter !XQ6W0CNp/o
>>179471
They did exist, by the way.
>> Anonymous
Omnivores are top of the food chain, if your brother wants to become part of the 'to be eaten', why worry. End of the world and there is nothing to eat, you got your brother.
>> Anonymous
>>179641

We know that. But they sure as hell don't exist now, and they never existed in Africa. the cave lion was a Eurasian species.