Get vegetarian teeth and eat less meat
Want to live a greener life? Eat less meat. Recently the UN appealed for a radical shift in diet, to improve individual health and ease conditions affecting the global environment. Reducing meat consumption by 10% reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Unfortunately, humans are omnivores. Our teeth are designed to eat both meat and plants. Susana Soares and her colleagues designers and engineers of the Material Beliefs program propose to alter human teeth structures into those of herbivores, in order to become a better vegetarian.
Teeth are an essential tool for nutrition and their shape is related to diet. Herbivore animals have developed teeth structures suited to the consumption of plant material. Can our teeth structure be replaced to encourage dietary shifts that reflect social concerns?
Soon at a local dentist near you? Perhaps your government will even give you a tax cut for adopting a more sustainable veggy lifestyle? No seriously, this is bio play.
See also: Phone Tooth, Orthorexia Nervosa: the healty eating disorder.
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PS: Common misconception! Humans are NOT omnivores: we do not eat insects or plants. (Vegetables are not plants, hence vegetarian vs. herbivore). Humans are carnivores, meat being the dominant food and not grains. Carnivore does not exclude vegetables but we do not eat plants (aka we do not graze on grass or tree branches) & we’re not supposed to eat grains at all either.