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Re: New Member Introduction

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:40 am
by brimstoneSalad
thebestofenergy wrote: Although, you might argue that our diets were mainly plant-based, and we ate meat only when necessary for survival.
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.

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.

Re: New Member Introduction

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:27 pm
by Jebus
thebestofenergy wrote:It's not really a conclusion, it's a fact - that humans are omnivores.
Although, you might argue that our diets were mainly plant-based, and we ate meat only when necessary for survival.
Given the usual high quality of your posts, I'm surprised you would claim a fact with zero backup. In fact, you even argued against your own claim.