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Humans aren't "designed" to do anything, they evolved over time to better suit their environments. You can get all the micro and macro nutrients you need as a vegan, and there is no physical way for every human on Earth to eat wild meat to begin with.
Whatever you wanna tell yourself. I was just letting you know that just because you CAN survive on a highly specialized solely plant based diet, doesn't mean you and everyone else on the planet SHOULD. Humans are opportunistic omnivores, always have been always willing be. there are a few examples of previous humans choosing to only eat plants, but the vast majority of them ate meat and veggies. A well balanced diet of fruits vegetables and meat is best for humans. Again thought not today's modern, super fucked up mass farmed and processed meat.
I can also pretty confidently say that if you were ever actually starving, you would for sure eat meat to survive without a second thought no matter how vegan you say you are. Unless you're one of those people that would rather die than kill an animal to survive.
And as far as the everyone couldn't eat wild meat part, most people with a medium sized back yard could raise chickens or goats or rabbits on their own for meat. While it's not necessarily "wild" it's still much better than commercially farmed meat.
You're fighting a strawman, and moreover the idea that everyone can have a medium sized back yard is again fantasy.