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Animal proteins are inflammatory, as they contain sulfur based amino acids. So meat is going to inflame. Same for the saturated fats in meat (not even to speak of dairy), which are rarely found in plants. Finally out intestine is too long, and not acidic enough to meat, it may rot in our intestine causing inflammation.

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> Animal proteins are inflammatory, as they contain sulfur based amino acids. So meat is going to inflame.

> Finally out intestine is too long, and not acidic enough to meat, it may rot in our intestine causing inflammation.

These claims don't even seem remotely scientific, lol.

> Animal proteins are inflammatory, as they contain sulfur based amino acids. So meat is going to inflame.

https://nutritionstudies.org/animal-vs-plant-protein

There are so many studies on this.

> Finally out intestine is too long, and not acidic enough to meat, it may rot in our intestine causing inflammation.

Your right here. You may call rotting on all things passing our colon. But rotting meat is just a little more "dangerous" I guess. Again, your right: no science to back up this claim I could find.

Our small intestine is long, compared to the colon, precisely because we've evolved on meat-based diet. By the time the "meat" reaches the colon, there is barely anything left because the nutrients are absorbed by the small intestine.

As opposed to our cousins the apes, who have larger colon and shorter small intestine because they evolved on a plant-based diet.

But what if we human/compare ape guts with true omni guts (bear/wolf/swine), or true carnivore (cats) mammals?

Would you say this kind of chart is not true?

http://creationislove.com/wp-content/uploads/comparative-ana...

Just being inquisitive here... I want to learn.

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