you a yankee? sounds so!because thats the only race that cannot decode the basic code of life,or what life is,but keeps making scientific farts about having known everything.the catch,my man,is not whether meat rots or not,rather how meat digests meat!it is no less fascinating as the fact that meat eaters and non meat eaters have vrey different perceptions.have you any idea why meat is not on the exact good books of the spiritual guys?you wont know,because half of your population thinks NASA is the best thing to happen to mankind. :} update your reads.not why meat is,but how meat is.scince is,about why, and not how.regards

Would you or anyone please compare the life span of meat-eating persons
and persons who almost do not eat meat?

Great Article! I'm researching the best diets for improving digestion, weight loss, and increased energy levels! What is your opinion on juicing vegetables, or fruit smoothies? Wich is better? Since plants and vegetables are hard to digest could I drink them instead? Would I then get the benefit without the digestive problems? Thanks again for a great easy to read article!

I think the biggest dietary problem for americans in particular ,but all rich countries, is the volume of food consumed. we are terrible gluttons and on top of that we're lazy. just look around you at the supermarket next time your there, it's staring you in the face.doesn't matter whether your vegan or paleo or anything in between, if you systematically under eat and get a good amount of daily exercise you can expect to be healthy. remember that in paleolithic times huge amounts of energy were spent acquiring food,today we just sit on the sofa and order the next pizza and coke over the internet. the average american eats four times what is needed to maintain health, think of what that means as far as our reliance on agriculture and land use. those rain forests in Brazil are being cleared so you can stuff one more maccas deluxe beef burgher down your fat gullet.

Evidence of how unsuitable meat is for human digestion is the relationship established by numerous studies between colon cancer and meat-eating. Meat-centered diets are almost always high in fat and low in fibre, resulting in a slow transit time through the colon and allowing toxic wastes to do their damage.

Peter R. Cheeke, professor of Animal Science at Oregon State University, writes,

"Rates of colorectal cancer in various countries are strongly correlated with per capita consumption of red meat and animal fat, and inversely associated with fibre consumption. Even the most dedicated Animal Scientist or meat supporter must be somewhat dismayed by the preponderance of evidence suggesting a role of meat consumption in the etiology of colon cancer."

Moreover, while being digested, meat is known to generate steroid metabolites possessing carcinogenic (cancer-producing) properties. True carnivores move raw meat through their digestive tracts quickly within about three hours. Humans, with their long digestive tracts, take between twelve and eighteen hours to process and digest flesh.

Because the environment of the digestive tract is warm and moist, the meat rots and creates free radicals, unstable, destructive oxygen atoms that can cause cancer, premature aging, and other degenerative conditions. These free radicals are released into the body during the long digestion process.

As research continues, evidence linking meat-eating to other forms of cancer is building up at an alarming rate.

Man I was looking for retard-land forever. Finally found it. Being led by J. Stanton.

Coming to the point, I've rats in my backyard. I'll pay you guys $10 for each rat you eat.

I've got lots of money but only healthy, wise, vegan friends, so help is appreciated.
I'll pay for your children's education if your brains can't afford it.

You get to eat the rats! Your children get education, It's a win win situation!!!! What more can retards want!!!

"What qualifies a wolf, raven, hyena, cougar, raccoon, tuna, lion, or any other animal to eat other animals? Because that's what they do..."

Here's what, a lion may kill another lion in fight and there's no policing. A lion may see a sexy lioness and want to get it on with her and if it can, it will.

Here's the thing with humans, I see a tasty person on the street and kill her/him to eat, the police catches me.
I see a hot babe on the street whom I can overpower and fcuk, and I do it, it would be called rape.
In the rest of animal-land, there is nothing like rape or murder.

So quit being a hypocrite, either legalize rape, murder and what not or go vegan. Don't cite examples of carnivores you can't live up to.

And you didn't answer any of the other things I mentioned. Seriously, douchery has limits!