Just wondering out loud here though...
How would we have "evolved into meat eating"?
Did someone wake up one day and all of a sudden have the ability to eat meat when all his collegues died from it?
An honest question, please don't flame me as putting down evolution or something like that.
I mean it though; if eating meat would have killed us before we "evolved into eating meat" how did our ancestors know to eat meat in the first place?
If they repeated what other animals did, then they ate meat and died of parasites long before they got the gene.
If they didn't, how did they know to start eating meat?
They probably just built up an immunity after a few years and after a few thousand years it became genetically encoded. I dont think they ate meat and died the next day, but more than likely got the squirts or a fever.
Our organs and metabolisms evolved to handle meat. We were probably always omniverous, but couldn't get as much of the big-ticket items because we couldn't chase the predators away.
Consider how certain ruminants have three-chambered stomachs, the better to break down fibrous materials like grasses.
Of course, feeding ruminants to ruminants is considered the main reason why Mad Cow developed.
well said.