Why Humans are natural vegetarians

Some people still mistakenly believe that humans are born to be meat-eaters. An objective comparison between the characteristics of naturally vegetarian animals and naturally canivorous ones, as outlined in the table below, reveals the fallacy of that supposition:

Vegetarian	Meat-eater	Human
Hands/hoofs as appendages	Claws as appendages	Hands as appendages
Teeth flat	Teeth sharp	Teeth flat
Long intestine to digest fully nutrients in plant food	Short intestines, allow rapid excretion	Long intestines to digest full nutrients in plant foods; flesh can cause constipation`
Sweats to cool body	Pants to cool body	Sweats to cool body
Sips water	Laps water	Sips water
Vitamin C obtained solely from diet	Vitamin C manufactured internally	Vitamin C obtained solely from diet
Exists largely on a fruit and nut diet	Consumes flesh exclusively	Diet depends on environment, high adaptable
Grasping hands capable of using tools or weapons	No manual dexterity	Grasping hands capable of using tools or weapons
Inoffensive excrement	Putrid excrement	Offensiveness of excrement depends on diet
Snack feeder	Large meals infrequently taken	Combines habits of vegetarians and flesh eaters.
Predominantly sweet-toothed	Preference for salty/fatty foods	Likes both sweet and salty/fatty food
Likes to savour food, experiment with variety, combine flavours	Bolts down food	Likes to savour food, experiment with variety, combine flavours
Large brains, able to rationalize	Small brains, less capable of adaptive behaviour	Large brains, able to rationalize

Why Humans are natural vegetarians chart taken from: The realeat encyclopedia of Vegetarian Living, Peter Cox

It is sometimes suggested that the existence of canine teeth in humans proves that we are adapted to eat meat. In fact, this is not the case. In primates, canines function as both defence weapons and visual threat devices. Most significantly, the primates with the largest canines – gorillas and gelada baboons – both have strictly vegetarian diets.

Anyway i could go on for a while about why humans are natural vegetarians, but i wont, i just thought that the above table made interesting reading.