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Or omnivorous.

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you live to eat or eat to live?

balance between both, it's up to everyone to decide their alimentary diet

Definitely omnivorous.

Biologically, we don't have a choice.

I think omnivorous as we have teeth designed for it

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Historically there. Are archeological remains to show that primitve man was an omnivorous and scavenging society. This holds true to some circumstance.

Omnivores

Omnivorous.

Eating too many veggies like Herbivores do will make you just as sick as eating too much meat like Carnivores do. Of course with meat it partially depends on how it's cooked. You can eat raw vegetables but you're have to be a damn fool to eat raw meat. Cooking meat gets rid of a lot of the harmful bacteria in it.

Humans can survive on one diet or the other... problem is that so far I believe the only one that's been shown is a purely Carnivorous diet of raw meat. Even people who don't eat meat usually eat things to supplement what they're not getting by not eating meat, most that is, those who don't eat anything that supplement Iron and Protein tend to end up looking kind of raggedy and run down.

But back to the carnivorous thing. Okay so I was looking up feral children after watching an episode of Grimm and most of them they had listed were raised by purely carnivorous animals, like wolves or even (wild) dogs. When they were found their teeth looked, well, how you would not expect them to. They grew sharp and ragged from having been raised on nothing but meat that was more than likely raw.
There was also once a young boy who could have very well been raised on a strictly vegetarian diet of berries, roots, and nuts had he not been found when he did. He recalls monkeys coming up to him and giving him food like that and they befriended him after about two weeks and they taught him how to climb trees, travel, and search for food.

There was however, one boy, called the Gazelle Boy who was near purely herbivorous aside from the occasional lizard. His teeth became flat like a herbivore. All he ate were what gazelles ate.

There have been quite a few cases of feral children and the reason I bring this up is because of their teeth and their diet. Most seem to have been raised by carnivorous animals which suggests it's possible to live on that diet alone for a human. But the inverse is also true.
The problem is that humans are naturally omnivorous so either or diet could make us sick - but if we were raised on that diet from a young age then we'd probably get used to it much faster.

The big argument is another Nature vs. Nurture issue and feral children show this in a way we can't study or experiment or recreate. Point to this is that humans can have either diet even though we're built to have both. I was using feral children as an example.

So long story short we have the ability to be any of those things despite our natural omnivorous diet, which is what the example of feral children can show. We may be designed to be omnivorous but that doesn't necessarily mean we have to be that way.

Of course if you try to change you diet now at the general age most of us are it'll probably make you sick so you'd just switch right back in order to feel better. But stomachs can usually adjust to a certain diet after a while. I once knew a girl who was constantly in the bathroom vomiting (or other things) when she radically changed her diet from an omnivorous to a herbivorous one. Her stomach adjusted within a month I believe but it was a horrible month for her. Oh and I'm not talking just vegetarian either, I'm talking about herbivorous. Plants, roots, berries, nuts, things like that was all she was eating along with some fruit. It made her sick, really sick, but eventually she got better.
Then she tried to go back to an omnivorous diet and it made her just as sick as it did the first time.


So anyway, I didn't mean to ramble but humans are naturally omnivorous, however that doesn't mean we can't turn ourselves into herbivores or carnivores even. Our teeth and stomachs would change but the best part about being an omnivore is flexibility.

But, yeah, natural omnivore.