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Tell that to lions? Tigers? Bears? Oh my? Maybe you’re not wrong but I don’t think you can make an evolutionary argument here.
by salad-tycoon 3y ago
Tell that to lions? Tigers? Bears? Oh my? Maybe you’re not wrong but I don’t think you can make an evolutionary argument here.
- xnx 3y ago"Plant foods make up the majority of a bear’s diet – sometimes as much as 90 per cent." - https://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/food-diet/ https://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/food-diet/
- rtkwe 3y agoBears are sure but there are loads of obligate carnivores that don't have appreciable plant based calories in their diets.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoSorry, fair enough. It was sticky thing to say but entirely correct. My real point beyond wizard of oz is plenty of animals only eat meat.
- ribosometronome 3y ago>lions? Tigers? And it's super energy intensive! Those guys spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping.
- michaelmrose 3y agoThe existence of carnivores doesn't advance any argument whatsoever about the relative difficulty of one task vs the other nor about what diet would be desirable. In fact there is no evolutionary argument to be made because what we should eat is a complex question that can't be answered by asking what we did eat.
- salad-tycoon 3y ago> In fact there is no evolutionary argument to be made. Agreed, in a short and pithy way I was trying to make this point. I’ve been taught to be weary of the “beautiful savage” argument too, so I don’t think pointing out to tribes that only eat meat or only eat vegetables is useful. As cool as the Hadza are their hunting and eating practices don’t really give me much additional guidance and I tune out when my influencers of choice start waxing poetical about their amazing life changing visit.