| The Silent Ark by Juliet Gellatley & Tony Wardle "Omnivores and carnivores...have powerful stomach acids to digest meat. Their gut is extremely short, expelling the waste products of meat, the toxins and carcinogens, as quickly as possible. The human gut, an ape�s gut, is the opposite. It is extremely long and handles large amounts of fibrous material, which trundles slowly through the bowel, allowing the maximum goodness to be extracted from it. Other illuminating differences include: carnivores have no manual dexterity, we do; carnivores pant to cool their bodies, we sweat; carnivores lap water, we sip it; and carnivores can manufacture vitamin C internally, we cannot." (page 143/144) |