Source: AVA - Association Vegetarian animal rights, non-profit organization
Adapted from EVU News, N ° 2 / 1996
Prof. Luis Vallejo Rodrigue z
Vegetarian Secretary of the Canary Islands.
He now believes that man must eat meat to have a balanced diet that contains high quality proteins. The state even as eminent Chartered Govian Francisco Grande, who died recently, considered the highest authority in Spain in terms of nutrition. To this we must add that the Ministry of Health recommends eating meat that most people eat it and sees it as a good food. However, despite this, it is surprising that the most famous naturalists of mankind were vegetarians or at least have one after another declared that man is by nature vegetarian.
We consider that the term "vegetarian" and "vegetarian" appeared at the 1838, then, before that date, do not find them in any text, and that's why naturalists speak of food of vegetable or plant arrangements. The non-existence of these terms makes it difficult investigations.
more, to know if a famous naturalist was vegetarian or not, we read the biographies of each. The biographies are difficult if not impossible to find, because not all were written. They were written biographies on famous artists, but very few on men of science. In this there is another difficulty: the lack of interest of the writers for the eating habits of the characters on which they wrote. That's how Colin Spencer, for example, in his book The Heretics Feast complains that between sixty biographies of Leonardo da Vinci only two say that he was a vegetarian. Despite all these difficulties, the statements of the most famous Natural Heritage have expressed a very clear message and a proof of this, read what they said:
John Ray (1628-1704) was considered the father of history English naturalist and was founded in his honor, an association that bears his name: "The Ray Society. The following John Ray:
There is no doubt that the man was not meant to be a carnivore.He also says:
A) That inviting, pleasant and innocent vision is the spectacle of a table so laden with difference and preparations of animal meat smoking, cut down and dead! In no way man has set up a carnivore. Hunt and voracity are not congenial. The man has neither teeth nor sharp nails to kill its prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries, vegetables, and his teeth are suitable for chewing.
B) Anything that we need to nourish, refresh and delight is abundantly present in the inexhaustible stock of Nature. What a nice view, innocent and inviting a panel set up frugally, and that difference with a meal of steaming meat and animal killed. In summary, our farmers have all the delights imaginable while abattoirs and butchers are full of gore and foul smelling odor.
Another famous naturalist Carl Linnaeus is (1707-1778), Doctor of the Swedish Navy, President of the Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Botany at the University of Stockholm and Uppsala. Linnéa has created the method of natural classification of plants and animals, still used, although two centuries. Linnéa wrote:
A) The fruits and edible plants are the food più appropriato per l’uomo.
B) A partire dalla sua anatomia, l’uomo non è stato fisiologicamente progettato per mangiare carne.
C) I frutti sono il nutrimento più adatto all’uomo per via della conformazione dei suoi denti e del suo apparato digerente; ciò si evince da quel che è stato dimostrato attraverso la comparazione con i quadrupedi.
Il naturalista francese Georges Louis Leclerc , meglio conosciuto come Conte di Buffon (1707-1778) fu membro dell’Accademia delle Scienze, Amministratore del Giardino del Re e, con la collaborazione di molti altri, ha scritto: “Storia Naturale” in 36 volumi. Buffon ha determined that:
The man could only live plants. However, the whole of nature is not enough to satisfy his intemperance el'inconsistente variety of his appetite. Man alone consumes and devours more meat of all animals combined, without necessity, but in the form of abuse.
Dr. Aubenton a collaborator of Louis de Buffon, Daubenton better known as a former professor of Mineralogy at the King's Garden and Natural History at the School of Medicine, states:
It can be assumed that man, when live in a natural way and in a temperate climate where the earth produces of itself every sorta di frutti, se ne nutra e non mangi animali.
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) naturalista francese, anatomista e geologo. Fu professore presso la Scuola e il Museo di Francia, Segretario dell’Accademia delle Scienze e Cancelliere dell’Università. Creò la teoria dell’Anatomia Comparata e la Paleontologia. Grazie ai suoi studi abbiamo potuto ricostruire specie per specie quelle scomparse. Cuvier ricevette i titoli di Barone, Grande Ufficiale della Legion d’Onore; fu onorato da Napoleone primo, Luigi XVIII e Luigi Filippo. Cuvier dichiarò nella sua opera Lezioni di Anatomia Comparata che:
L’Anatomia comparata ci insegna che in ogni dettaglio l’uomo somiglia agli animali frugivori e per niente ai carnivori … Solo camuffando la carne morta, resa più tenera da tecniche culinarie, è possibile per l’uomo masticarla e digerirla, solo così la vista di carni crude e sanguinolente non suscita orrore e disgusto .
Torniamo su alcune constatazioni fatte dal Cuvier:
A) La costituzione dei principali organi dell’uomo dimostra che la sua alimentazione non dovrebbe consistere in null’altro che dei vegetali.
B) Il cibo naturale dell’uomo, se consideriamo la sua struttura, dovrebbe consistere in frutta, radici, ortaggi (verdure).
C) L’intero corpo umano, fin nel più piccolo dettaglio, è destinato per natura ad un regime esclusivamente vegetale.
D) L’uomo sembra fatto per nutrirsi principalmente di frutta, radici e altre parti succulente (ricche d’acqua) dei vegetali. Le sue mani gli consentono facilmente di cogliere tutto ciò; d’altro canto, le sue mascelle corte e di forza media, i suoi canini uguali (di pari lunghezza) agli altri denti e i suoi molari a forma di tubero non gli permetterebbero né di brucare l’erba né di divorare la carne, a meno che egli non renda questi cibi commestibili attraverso la cottura.
Fonte: " Le règne animal " di Georges Cuvier (Baron). Tome I - 1817 p. 86
Source: "The animal kingdom " by Georges Cuvier (Baron). Tome I - 1829 p. 73
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German naturalist, explorer and geographer. Provide studies on magnetism and supported the theory of the origin of igneous rocks. It is considered the founder of the climatology of terrestrial morphology, geography and physical geography of the oceans of the planets. He wrote a work in thirty volumes entitled Worlds and Travels in the equinoctial regions of the New World . Humboldt says this:
eat animals is not far dall'antropofagia and cannibalism. The same amount of land used to graze and feed cattle could feed ten people, then if we grow lentils, peas or beans, could feed a hundred people .... The Orinoco basin can produce sufficient quantities of bananas to feed all of humanity by a wide margin.
Richard Owen (1804-1892) English naturalist, Cuvier studied, cataloged the collection of hunting in the British Museum is home to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. He studied comparative anatomy and physiology. He wrote Courses Comparative Anatomy, Paleontology e Fisiologia dei Vertebrati . Owen ha detto:
A) Gli antropoidi e tutti i quadrumani ricavano la loro alimentazione dai frutti, dai semi e da altre succose sostanze vegetali e la stretta analogia fra la struttura degli animali e quella dell’uomo dimostra palesemente il loro frugivorismo naturale.
B) Le scimmie, la cui dentizione è pressoché uguale a quella dell’uomo, vivono principalmente di frutta, noci ed altre varietà simili per consistenza, sapore e valore nutritivo elaborate dal mondo vegetale. La somiglianza profonda fra i denti dei quadrumani e quelli degli uomini dimostra che l’uomo era in origine adatto a mangiare i frutti degli alberi nel Paradiso.
Sicuramente The most famous of all English naturalists agreed with other naturalists. I refer to Charles Darwin (1800-1882) who at age 22 began a world tour that lasted five years. During the voyage Darwin collected material that was used to publish the most famous of his books in 1859: the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . Darwin was a member of the Royal Society of London, and after his death, was buried in Westminster Abbey funeral, with solemn and diplomatic presence of great nations to his funeral. Darwin wrote:
The classification form, and functions in the system (food) shows beyond doubt che il nutrimento normale dell’uomo è vegetale come quello degli antropoidi e delle scimmie, che i nostri canini sono meno sviluppati dei loro e che noi non siamo destinati a competere con le bestie selvagge o gli animali carnivori.
Nel suo libro L'origine dell'uomo e la scelta in rapporto col sesso (1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 1st ed. ) egli dice:
At the period and place, whenever and wherever it may have been, when man first lost his hairy covering, he probably inhabited a hot country; and this would have been favourable for a frugiferous diet, on which, judging from analogy, he subsisted.
At any time, anywhere, whenever and wherever it may be followed, it is likely that the man, when he began to lose its qualification as a hair, living in a hot country, and this must have been in favor of a regime frugivorous, which, judging from analogy, he must have lived.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English doctor and anthropologist, claimed Darwin's theories and became president of the Royal Society. Among other things he wrote zoological evidence of man's place in Nature and in Anatomy Comparative . We read some statements by Huxley:
A) The man was first hunting and fire, could not therefore be omnivorous.
B) The length of the digestive system of man is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx from 50 to 80 cm, which gives us a ratio of 10, as for other fruit-eating animals and not carnivores like 3 or 20 as for herbivorous animals.
C) The only existing animal morphology with the bear is omnivorous, which has some sharp teeth and other dishes.
Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) famous British anatomist and anthropologist.
Together with Martin Flack , discovered the ganglion from which arise sinoauricolare contractions heart. Former Rector of the University of Aberdeen, wrote: Instructions for the Study of apes, Old and Wise Men Types of Human Evolution . This anthropologist tells us,
the chimpanzees and gorillas have the same human digestive mechanisms. It is evidence of comparative anatomy in favor of a regime that allows the fermentation of raw produce a lot of feces daily, and no soft rot.
This research represents the most famous naturalists that humanity has ever had. We have noted that their studies were supported, and made reference to the comparison of the anatomy of man with that of other mammals, especially monkeys, and tell us about the shape of the teeth and digestive systems of these mammals. In this regard, all known naturalists have come to the same startling conclusion: man is vegetarian by nature and if the word "vegetarian" does not appear in their writings is because the term did not exist before 1838, and because studies of these naturalists famous were written before this date.
We could argue against vegetarianism that the images of prehistoric caves of the rocks show him as a hunter. This does not mean that meat is the ideal form of nutrition for humans. We must take into account that the anthropologist Alan Walker, of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied the fossil imprints of the teeth, he found an assortment of different foods. He reiterated that our early ancestors did not live mainly on meat, or seeds, or berries, leaves or grass, and even they were omnivores. It seems that they supported mainly by a regime of fruit. Found no exceptions. Each tooth was examined and those in hominids than 12 million years ago and inherited in a direct line from Homo Erectus, show that these hominids were eating fruit.
Alan Walker ( published in the New York Times, May 15, 1979 ).
Preliminary studies of fossil teeth have led to the startling suggestion that our early human ancestors were not predominantly meat eaters or even eaters of seeds, shoots, leaves, or grassses. Nor were they omniverous. Instead, they appear to have subsisted chiefly on A DIET OF FRUIT. NO EXCEPTIONS HAVE BEEN FOUND. Every tooth examined from the hominids of the 12 million year period leading up to Homo-Erectus appeared to be that of a fruit eater.The Best Of Health: The 100 Health Best Books , by Sheldon Zerden.
Per concludere voglio porre ai lettori questa domanda: l’uomo è vegetariano per natura? Attualmente la maggior parte dei Dottori ci dicono che non lo è ma i più celebri naturalisti hanno deducting all it is.
If this is really so only a small minority of the population of developed countries, what we call vegetarians eat properly, while most people would eat in Improperly
Pr Luis Rodriguez Vallejo
Secretary of 'Vegetarian Association of the Canary Islands
Road 3557, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Prof Rodriguez has published three books in English:
- Healing from cancer through colon cleansing (1990)
- Nutrition and school success (1991)
- Il cancro e gli interessi correlati (e gli interessi che ne sono nati) (1993)
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