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I was really sick for the last few days, and someone at work thought that it might be to low protien consumption (due tothe fact that my wife and I generally do not eat meat.) Now I'm not one to say that meat eating is wrong, but I think that the amount of meat that americans eat is nowhere close to the amount of protien possibly required by people. I thought i might find some numbers and make a little chart... I used a pure carnivore, a large omnivore, our closest genetic relative, and the average human weight, average daily consumption, and the reported consumption in pounds, or meat by the average american... to come up with a percentage of the diet based entirely in animal protiens... how do we stack up?

ANIMAL	Avg Weight(lbs)	Consumption/Day total (Lbs)	Meat/Day (lbs)	% of consumption meat
Human	134	2	0.71	35.62
Chimp	100	4.2	0.16	3.81%
Grizzly	1025	90	22.50	25.00%
Tiger	400	10	10.00	100.00%

So we eat protien like grizzlies, animals which require that they gain almost 400 lbs of excess seasonal fat for hibernation... as it is, our closest genetic relatives only require 4% of their consumption in meat... if this was carried over to humans, we would require a scant .08 pounds of meat per day...