When did man begin to eat meat?

Question

When in history, did man go from herbivore to omnivore?

Answer 1

Probably when the first animal attacked the first caveman

Answer 2

well strictly speaking from before we evolved

it's a common argument by some of the die hard vegetarians that our ape ancestors were not meat eaters but it's a mistake to think so.

even monkeys eat meat whenever they get the chance but they just don't have the intelligence to go and hunt for food.  They have to rely on the lucky catch (scavenging and the likes)

but eating meat comes as natural to us as breathing

Answer 3

The earliest evidence of our ancestors eating animal flesh is approx. 125,000 years ago. They began eating sea animals off the southern African coast. This was the catalyst behind the transformation into the homo sapiens brain. Homo sapiens has always been eating meat. So, man, as in human, has never been a herbivore, though our ancestors were.

Answer 4

when he got kicked out of the garden of eden.

Answer 5

When OGGGH, caught his wife OOOLAH cheating on him.

178634BC.

You state "when you were a vegan"?

Why did you come back?

Answer 6

Man has eaten meat since the beginning of time, we never were herbivores. But if you look at in in a biblical sense, humans started eating meat after they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Adam & Eve were originally vegetarians and only started eating meat after they got kicked out and needed food. But that's only if you believe in the Bible.

Answer 7

Man has been omnivore since the beggining of time. not until fairly recently have people started to try to change that. A better question is when and why did people want to stop eating the healthy proteins you can only find in meat.

Answer 8

I'm not sure when exactly but It's like with the cave men and stuff they didn't have nice stuff from the super market's, they had to survive on what they found, so they had to hunt animals and then eat them in-order to survive.

Answer 9

We likely started out as eating mostly fruits, berries, nuts, plants, and anything else we could find.  This was pre-history.  So, we can only look at our biology, there is no physical evidence of anything back then, so far.  Biologically speaking, we are best 'designed' for the consumption of fruit.  Not an omnivore -- apparently people don't know much about the biology of omnivores; totally different than humans.  Only takes a quick search on the net to find that out.

Some people think that vegetarianism is some new thing the hippies in the 1960s started.  But, actually, vegetarianism also predates history.  But we do have written record of vegetarians, those that decided that killing animals and eating them was wrong, thousands of years ago.

Humans started to migrate and expand their area northwards, and food sources were very different, especially in the winter, and without the technique of preserving food for winter, it is assumed that humans started killing and eating animals as a means to survive winter.  Archaeological evidence of humans eating animals in the Africa area shows evidence of scavenging.  That is, it was found that humans broke open bones left over from when an animal was eaten by other animals, and removed the marrow from inside.  It is assumed that they did this for the purpose of eating it. Of course, they could have used it for something else.  Nobody knows.  But, it seems at that time, they were not yet killing the animals themselves, only scavenging.

Answer 10

I don't believe any of the hominids (cave men) were herbivores

Even most primates have k-nine teeth and are known to cannibalize when possible

Your herbivore man  Idea is vegetarian & vegan 's that is a personal choice or religious concept they remain omnivores..

Answer 11

That, believe it or not, is an unanswerable question.

A very good question, but unanswerable.

We don't even know where we came from, how we got here or why we're here.

We certainly don't have the sort of documented history that could tell us when a human ate meat for the first time, or even if it worked out that way at all.

It's very possible that we started out as some freaky carnivorous monkey and we've just been evolving further and further away from meat over the years.

It's also possible that aliens just dropped us off a few thousand years ago, expecting us to eat nothing but plants but then some unfortunate individual, who found himself lost and starving in a desolate area, came across across the corpse of a squirrel, or a half-eaten lizard, and, out of desperation, decided to try eating it the way he had observed other animals do so in the past.

Or maybe, in a similar situation, someone tried eating bugs .. and that eventually led to trying to eat a dead animal .. and that eventually led to actually killing an animal to eat it.

Seriously .. anything's possible when we know as little as we do.

But there's no denying that modern people aren't cut out for meat.

We can't even consume it without first sterilizing it and building a tolerance to it.

And, even then, it causes all sorts of health problems for us.

Plus we have herbivorous teeth & nails and vegetarians are consistently healthier than people who still eat meat.

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Answer 12

Man never was a herbivore. Man evolved from other species who ate each other. It was called survival. It was just like it is in parts of Africa. The lion he eats his prey to survive. In Canada the bears can live eating grass or the berries, but to get themselves through the winter they need meat as well. They need to pile on the protien. It's called survival.

Man over the years has learnt he can do without eating meat, but that is great if you live in the western world where it is a land of plenty. People can have ethical ways of eating, but if you are living in Darfur you will eat what you can get, it's called survival. If the west ever get into another world war then for everyone on here today, what you find to eat is what you will survive on.