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humans are obligate carnivores (hackertalks.com)
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I know, I KNOW, we are omnivores (you, me, maybe not our llm friends, but most of us)... but that doesn't quite line up with biological necessity.

I would argue we are facultative omnivores, but obligate carnivores. We can eat plants for efficiency (famines and whatnot), but they are not necessary for life. Meat, however, is necessary - at the very least we would have b vitamin deficiencies without meat, and babies wouldn't develop into healthy humans without it.

People will argue, and i love you all for it, that maybe this applies historically but in the modern food environment we can engineer our way out of this obligation - sure, that's true, but when speaking of our species appropriate and native diet - we would still be obligate carnivores

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[–] 2 points 15 hours ago

What medical concerns did Jet raise in this post?

The words Jet uses are used with the correct meaning: We are at the very least meso-carnivores, since we require meat in our diet, but can also consume plants. Since bio-availability of plant nutrition is low, it does appear that we aren't particularly well adapted to eating them. But we need not depend solely on animal sources, so we aren't exactly obligate carnivores, by definition.

Hence Jet's question.

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