l WHILE wishing to thank councillor Rob Johnston for responding to my letter (ViewPoints, October 22), I confess to being somewhat bemused to find a ‘retired’ biologist’ making such an embarrassing fundamental error in his statement.
He claimed: “If we had not evolved to eat meat, we would not possess incisors, which tear meat into digestible portions.” Even with my limited knowledge of school biology, I do know the difference between the teeth known as ‘incisors’ and the ‘canine’ variety (see the Oxford English Dictionary).
I have yet to see a rabbit tearing meat into digestible portions with its vegetarian incisors!
Our human so-called canine teeth, which Cllr Johnston meant to describe, do not bear any resemblance to the canine teeth found in true carnivores or omnivores.
They are totally useless for the purpose he describes.
His ‘woolly assertions’ certainly come into the area of feigning to know more than the medical doctors who have written numerous titles on the human diet which have been published worldwide, which endorse my original letter.
EDWARD SANDERSON Great Clarendon Street Oxford
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