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Why do vegans exist if humans are only meant to be omnivores?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
We're are ment to be Omnivores we can survive on a mixture of different foods like meat and also plan produced, that is why we are omnivores.
Everyone had rights and all that some people choose not to be involved in the way the animals are killed for our food or mistreated for our food.
- lo_mcgLv 78 years ago
'Meant'? Meant by whom?
Humans are indeed omnivores.
Omnivores can survive and thrive on a diet that includes meat, or on a plant-based diet.
So we humans can survive and even thrive on a plant-based diet if we have to - or if we choose to.
Just as we no longer NEED (in the west anyway) to live in caves or to kill animals to use their skins as clothing, so we no longer NEED to hunt and kill animals for food.
And so some of us choose not to. Others make a different choice.
Simple as that.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Silly! Vegans are omnivores too. "Omnivore" is about what you CAN eat, not what you CHOOSE to eat.
- friendofchipLv 78 years ago
Clearly this puts that theory to shame and proves we are not meant to be omnivores.
Now, a word in your ear.
Please realise that "omnivore" is simply a word to mean habit. It is not a biological design, such as a plant eater or a meat eater. Being an omnivore simly denotes a habit that many people do. Smoker, sportsman, family man, musician, are other examples.
It only refers to a habit, and does not refer to an actual physical or biological design.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Same reason there are homosexuals, were all different
- Anonymous8 years ago
There is no God, so saying humans 'are meant' for anything is quite dumb.