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But where do gorillas get their protein? (slrpnk.net)

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[+] voracitude 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Eastern Lowland Gorillas actually don't let the Westerns into their country clubs.

Uncivilized brutes.

I do know some people that will eat oysters as vegetarians. They lack central nervous systems and as a result can't feel pain or distress. They're basically as plant like as a technical animal can get, but people who don't know that don't understand why a vegetarian might be okay with it.

[–] Yucky_Dimension -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My family is mostly vegan. Only my sister eats hotdogs from time to time.

So you are saying you aren't vegan.

Isn't that the logic here?

[–] dogsnest 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I eat beef, but the cows were grass-fed. So they were vegan. Except for the milk part when they were calves. But then they chose grass.

So, I'm a vegan, once-removed.

[–] Bashnagdul 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I only eat vegetarians

[–] dogsnest 3 points 5 months ago

I'm the same with Presbyterians. But only when they cross against the light.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people focus on gorillas when bulls stand around eating grass all day. Maybe, just maybe different animals are optimized for different diets. Most humans can get by and even be healthy on a vegan diet, though we're really more optimized to have a bit of meat every once in a while. Everything about us screams omnivore, and we're lucky enough to be able to go full vegan if we want to (take your B12).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people focus on gorillas when bulls stand around eating grass all day.

Maybe because one of these species is the closest relative to humans and the other is just in the same class (mammals)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Chimps and bonobos are our closest living relative, then gorillas. The chimp diet consists of 2% meat in the wild, but we've got 7 million years of evolution between us and chimps. Given that we've been cooking for at least 300,000 years (possibly as long as 2,000,000 years) and that we spent a lot of time hunting mega fauna to extinction, I'm gonna go ahead and say that maybe making cross-species diet comparisons isn't exactly helpful. I don't see no chimp taking down an elephant, but we killed off mammoths with spears and arrows.

But again, we're smart enough to construct a healthy vegan diet for ourselves, even if we're not purpose-built for it.