• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    24 hours ago

    Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it’s the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that’s how the chick got near the tortoise.

    • zeca@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Are we actually herbivores that are oportunistic carnivores?

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        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

        • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 hours ago

          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.

      • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        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

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          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.

          • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            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.

          • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
            5·
            14 hours ago

            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?

          • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            19·
            1 day ago

            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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • vrek@programming.devEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

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

  • notsure@fedia.io
    7·
    1 day ago

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

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        Damn well near every herbivore will happily eat meat if it’s entirely risk free and can easily be eaten.

        Look at horses as a great example.

        • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 hours 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.