Re: New Member Introduction
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:40 am
Or that the line between omnivore and herbivore is arbitrary. Even deer can eat meat, and some do on rare occasion when it's opportunistically available.thebestofenergy wrote: Although, you might argue that our diets were mainly plant-based, and we ate meat only when necessary for survival.
There are obligate carnivores, like cats, who can't synthesize taurine and so have to eat meat (or man made taurine), and then the rest is more of a spectrum or arbitrary classification based on observed behavior.