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[–] 76 points 11 months ago (22 children)

Herbivores are pretty universally opportunistic carnivores. Check YouTube for examples if you want a jarring few minutes

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Horses just slurping up chicks is so fucked to see.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I think I got the search terms reversed

    extinct terror bird holding a horse in it's mouth, but the size difference is goofy it's holding the whole horse in it's beak meaning either the bird is like 5 times bigger than actual or the horse is only a foot long

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ahhh so the horse was just getting revenge then

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    Are we actually herbivores that are oportunistic carnivores?

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Try to feed an herbivore a nutritionally stable 100 percent meat diet and they’ll just die. Try the same with us and we’ll be relatively fine indefinitely. Definitely not herbivores

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Nah humans struggle with 100% meat. Even with modern supplementing.

    Humans are omnivores.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Struggle, sure. It’s not an ideal diet by any means, but as compared to nearly certain death within a month, it’s far better. Certain cultures were nearly 100% carnivorous by necessity, and they could grow to be elderly, which demonstrates that we are unequivocally not herbivores, which was all I said. I’d never argue against us being omnivores.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There are millions of people who would disagree.

    It seems to me that anyone whose ancestors were in Europe during the last ice age is well adapted to an entirely carnivorous diet because we've only had 10k years to have winter access to plant based food, which isn't enough time to adapt to a plant based diet, let alone to lose the diet that we conquered the world with

    Vegans do badly without supplements, most carnivore diet followers don't take any supplements other than salt, and many don't take salt.

    How does your model of metabolism deal with living on a glacier?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    They did that with guinea pigs in testing for vitamin C content in food (if the rodents got scurvy, the food had no acerbic effect)

    Unfortunately when they were fed beef they starved, so beef was recorded as "not tested" USDA still records beef as "not tested, presumed zero)

    I have eaten only beef (every day), eggs (a dozen two weeks in 5), yoghurt (Greek style) (1kg monthly at most), fish (twice a year on holidays at the beach), wine (three occasions in four weeks) and occasionally beer (a couple of litres once a month) for 3 years - none of which are recognised as having vitamin C. Scurvy sets in in a month or so without vitamin C, and kills a few weeks after untreated symptoms, so were my foods actually devoid of the vitamin I would be years dead. I guess I'm a better guinea pig than a guinea pig is for acerbic testing.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    In my home country, ground beef is typically made with an assortment of offal and has a relatively high vitamin/mineral content. And a chewy texture that I personally believe requires an acidic spice marinade and grilling to be palatable.

    This really isn’t relevant, but your anecdote made me imagine feeding spicy kebabs to guinea pigs and I couldn’t help but feel a mix of horror and confusion at these poor imaginary creatures deriving more nutrition from a hot spice blend than from the kebab itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    We lived upon glaciers last ice age (except for tropical people and probably those in the southern hemisphere) if we weren't hyper carnivores then we couldn't have lived in Europe, we couldn't have crossed to the Americas. We ate animals that could eat the plants that could grow on the ice and the mountain tops poking through the glaciers, there was no fruit, no grain, no root vegetables, no beans, no cruciforms. There hasn't been enough time since then for us to become herbivores, though we inherited much ability to eat many plants from the herbivorous apes we evolved from

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's not just black and white, herbivores or carnivores. There's a whole spectrum of omnivory and humans are superomnivorous. We can survive on many types of diet.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Indeed we can, I only thrive as a hyper carnivore, as I'm allergic to grass (including the food grains and bamboo clothing) and intolerant of so many plants.

    I think the only plants I can eat with no ill effects are most of the fruits

    My ancestors were all northern European, the most meat eating people for the longest after the plains amerindians and Inuit

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Need to snack on the crunchy chicks to get the evil modifier up. There’s a door with loot, after all.

    It’s okay, because you can get even more loot by donating to a temple; and everyone forgets it.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Not that surprising. Many herbivores are opportunistic carnivores.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Also most carnivores are oportunistic herbivores too. It's not shocking enough, but it's true.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I also feel like that's not a surprise to anybody that's had dogs.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Fun... Well not really fun... Fact:

    Giant tortoise didn't get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago

    Everyone eats baby birds. They're full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Just wait till you hear what people eat

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    New Kung Fu panda movie is crazy

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Pretty much the only prey they outspeed

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Tortoise: "I'm not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! ...Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?"

    But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    If you're surprised by this, you haven't been following giant tortoises.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    NGL if a turtle eats you, that sounds like a skill issue on your part.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    humm tendies

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    ...a slow, carnivorous reptile finds a food source...breaking news...wtf are you people stupid?.. I only calls 'em like a sees 'em

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Carniverous? All living giant tortoise species are herbivores.

    Now who's stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yes. The other person said they were "carnivorous" though. Giant tortoises are not carnivorous.

    Horses are also not carnivorous even though they do eat meat on rare occasions to survive.

    Words mean things.

    You're also wrong about horses. Put a steak on the ground in field of plentiful grass, horses will ignore it until it's rotted away to nothing. They do not just eat stuff outside of their regular died because its risk free and easily obtained.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    ...apparently, we're both wrong...according to wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    ...yeah, you didn't read the full article which contradicts itself...

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Oh yes, my bad, you gave me a broken link and an entire wikipedia article

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