Our digestive system isn’t constructed to eat animals. We don’t have the instincts to consume their fresh, warm, tissue-soaked blood. We can’t chase them down, so our survival would be in jeopardy. We have no claws. Yet, are we to believe nature designed us to get our nutrients from animals, not to mention a milk formulated for another mammal, and last-but-not-least nourishment designed for the chicken embryo?
By any stretch of the imagination this scenario would seem difficult to swallow. Yet, roughly 95 percent of Americans do swallow it, figuratively and literally!
Let’s review the empirical evidence with regard to the nutrients and compounds that make up our diet—protein, iron, calcium, vitamins, minerals, B-12, antioxidants, phytochemicals, fat, cholesterol, Omega-3 fatty acids, carbohydrates—and see if we can determine what Nature had in mind as the fuel for our engines.