| Pain on Your Plate |
| Part I - Vegetarians and Carnivores |
On this planet...
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...there are two type of animals: carnivores and vegetarians.
(All true omnivores were originally carnivores who evolved in such a way that they no longer require meat,
but their bodies are still equipped to digest meat without health problems.
For the purposes of this program, we will treat omnivores as carnivores.)
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Carnivores' bodies require the flesh of other animals.
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Vegetarians do best on a diet consisting solely of vegetation.
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As you might expect, the bodies of the two types of animals are very different.
Compare the intestinal tract of a carnivore with that of a vegetarian.
The carnivore's intestinal tract is short and large, and can quickly digest and eliminate meat from the system.
The vegetarian's tract, on the other hand, is long and winding: especially built to slowly digest vegetable matter.
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Now look at the intestinal tract of the human being.
With some thirty feet of winding intestines it's obvious which type of animal we are.
Human beings belong to the Primate genus, and all Primates are vegetarians by nature.
Whether you realize it or not, you are a vegetarian by nature.
Your body is not equipped to properly digest animals.
When you eat animals or animal byproducts, your health suffers.
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