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I think my opponent misunderstands the website I provided, but I will go in order. "However the fear that the world will be overrun by chickens, cows and pigs is a misnomer as nature has a way of culling overpopulations through starvation, disease and natural predation without human interference. For instance, when a pride of lions becomes too big, it faces starvation due to the lack of food. In a similar fashion, chickens, left to their own devices and unharrased by Colonel Sanders would eventually be brought back to reasonable levels by nature and interstate highways. Domestic animal populations would drop dramatically which would in turn be very good for our ecosystem, a point I was planning to bring up in later rounds but you beat me to it. " My opponent clearly misunderstands me. The way we now kill our food, is MUCH more humane than letting them starve to death or become ill. I never said anything about a fear of pigs, cow or chicken. What I am saying is that we as humans, are the predator, of most animals. Of coarse there are SOME other animals that wouldn't mind having a chicken or two, such as coyotes. Most of the wild animals that would eat livestock is used to not going near it though, due to our likelihood of shooting them. I find it cruel to have the ability to humanely kill an animal, but letting it starve, be eaten alive, or become ill with decease. "Note I never claimed that medication was unnatural, the claim was that much of modern medicine is unnatural, meaning surgical techniques like taking veins from legs and placing them in hearts is an unnatural act, yet we do it to prolong life. " Yes but not a vast majority of people get leg veins in their heart, the majority of people eat meat. Meat is natural for us as an omnivorous animal, to eat a healthy mixture of veggies, and meats. "Native Americans did use 'natural medicine' however I would argue that their track record for curing Malaria is quite a bit lower than that of modern inoculation, an unnatural act. " Yes they used natural medication, and it wasn't as good. Now however we have more knowledge of what the human body needs to stay healthy. Now natural medicines can cure almost anything. Humans have not eaten veggies for all of our existence meaning meat is more natural, than vegetables, for our consumption. "My opponent claims that humans were designed to eat meat, an assumption that explains incisors, but not reason. I contend that man evolved as meat eaters, but is still in the process of evolution and is moving towards a less carnivorous lifestyle. As proof I offer the teeth of ancient monkeys and our common ancestor as compared with modern man. We can clearly see that our incisors have been dramatically reduced, while our molars take up much more oral real estate, proof that mankind is adapting to a vegetarian existence. " Yes we as humans are designed to eat meat, and also that we were meat eaters, before we were omnivores. However I believe that we have changed, as far as eating habits, as much as we will. No we are not adapting to a vegetarian life, we WERE adapting to an omnivourious life. Since our teeth are designed to eat bith meats and vegtables we should eat them both not just one. "Finally my opponent compels the reader to go to a body building website that promotes the murder of animals. To be blunt, when my car is broken I take it to a mechanic not a dentist, and attempting to get reasoned advice from a bodybuilder is similar to getting a molar extracted by a small engine repair man. ' LOL, not eating the animals is murder. Now don't go saying I am an idiot for saying that, because, instead of allowing the animals to die quickly and nearly painlessley, but forcing them to starve. Instead of murdering the animals for food that would be murdering the animals for no reason. It is worse to kill without a purpose (aka letting an animal suffer until it dies) rather than kiling it humanely, and using the meat skin fur, and sometimes even bones of the animal. Also here are the points the link points out (without the details): 1) PH Balance 2) Cellulace 3) Man Is An Omnivore 4) Animal Testing 5) Gorillas 6) Vegetarianism For Bodybuilders 7) Nutrients 8) Milk 9) Religion and. .. 10) Hippocrates, Father of Nutrition If you accept any of the above as reasons then you must understand that man is not a vegetarian.