Right you are goodsamaritan. You are so helpful and constructive, as usual. Given your fruitarian past, you understand from experience the value of raw animal foods and the hazards of overindulging in sweet and acidic fruits, yes? I am simply amazed at the benefits to my dental health from a carnivorous diet.
goodsamaritan is nothing more than a lapsed fruitarian and an apologist of the fruitarian and high-fruit way, ie. the paleo diet. He is like a FINO.... Fruitarian In Name Only.
Many vegetarians are finally admitting that chimps, and indeed all primates, eat some nonplant foods, but they argue that meats form a small part of their overall diet. This ignores the inconvenient facts that Colobus monkeys are the FAVORITE food of the chimpanzees who hunt them. The rarity of animal meat and fat in their diet makes it MORE enjoyable, not less--a treasured treat that generates an orgy of excitement among both male and female chimps in the following video:
Yes, so can you imagine the surprise of the primatologist who saw them throwing away the high protein monkey meat. Monkey meat that was: 1) Fresher than you have EVER eaten, 2) Raw, 3) Organic, 4) Had a natural diet and not farmed in any way? This would have brought up the percentage of their diet from that day what, maybe 10%? But they threw it away.
The excitement is there, but chimps get excited like that a lot. Have you ever watched Monkey Business or a programmes like that? Those chimps are screaming so much at the slightest thing I have to turn it off!!!
Female chimps love animal foods so much that they will give sexual favors in return for some of the spoils of the hunt.
Bonobo females are notorious for doing this all the time for (a word you use in the US a lot) "regular" food. They gather them lots of food (often bipedally, as bonobos are known to do quite a lot) and for that the female bonobos perform for them.
Another twist to it is that females try to choose the biggest and best males to mate with and are looking out for these types of guys. They can do this by displaying, such as with threatening confrontations which another might cower from, if they're carnivorous primates showing their thick canines (much bigger than humans) which disintegrate with age as is unfortunately normal for primate teeth or even "wahoo" contests in baboons where their health and status is shown by their voice. The high rank of course shows that their offspring will have good genes and also so the big male can defend the females' offspring (the males don't always know if it's theirs, but they'll defend them for continuing sexual favours). What better way to show a very high rank than coming back from a hunt first in the pack with a big fresh piece of monkey meat in hand? The display isn't necessarily practical, as argued by another primatologist.. Craig Stanford maybe?
As I recall, scientists have been learning that animal foods help female primates go into estrus, become sexually stimulated, get pregnant, and have healthy offspring. Indeed, if it weren't for animal meat and fat, chimps would likely go extinct--the nightmare result of a purely fruitarian regime.
No you're wrong, thousands (millions?) of vegans get pregnant every year with few or no problems. They may take supplements... if needs be they could eat fish, eggs, all types of animal protein... animal meat specifically? Yeah right!!!!
