Animals eat other animals in nature, so isn it natural for humans to eat animals, as well?
Most animals that eat meat in nature do so because they must in order to survive. Animals known as obligate or true carnivores (like lions, sharks and polar bears) have sharp teeth and powerful jaws with which to kill and eat their prey raw, including entrails, organs, fur and all. Their digestive systems (e.g., intestines and stomach acids) are also designed to process raw animal flesh. Other animals, known as omnivores, eat a combination of animals and plants. Our closest genetic cousin, the chimpanzee, eats small amounts of meat (1% – 4% of total diet) when it is available, but can live healthily without it. The typical human eats far more than this amount of meat as a proportion of total diet. Overall per capita meat consumption has risen in industrialized countries with the development and spread of factory farming. The abuses that take place on factory farms and the enormous amounts of meat that most people eat are both completely at odds with what people normally consider “natur
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