Why did humans start eating meat

Why did humans start eating meat?

It must have seemed strange at first to consume animal meat. After all, we are not that different from animals. Maybe it felt cannibalistic. There may not have been much intellectual differentiation between humans and other animals. When humans were true vegetarians, they lived in peace with the land and the other species that shared the globe with them. Their nearest animal cousins, the apes, were vegetarian. Eating earthly items like as plants, grains, and fruits that they could harvest and consume appeared to be part of the ordinary sequence of things.

But need is the mother of inventions. Prehistoric man who lived in cold climates or in areas destroyed by fire would have eaten everything to survive. Just like the football players who lost their aircraft crashed in the mountains of Chile and were compelled to consume the flesh of teammates who died in the crash, the earliest man had to make a choice for survival, which could have included eating meat for the first time and forever changing human history - and health.

We can imagine that men first ate meat that had been charred or cooked by virtue of being caught in a natural forest fire. They might have subsequently eaten raw meat, if necessary, but we can also imagine that our earliest digestive systems rebelled against eating raw meat.

Imagine having eaten raw foods and vegetables for eons, and all of a sudden, incorporating meat products into your system. You may have heard friends who were vegetarians tell stories of trying to eat meat and becoming violently ill afterwards.

Scientists will tell you that we were not created to consume meat, but we have adapted to it. However, in the grand scheme of human history, consuming meat is a comparatively recent evolutionary adaptation.