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by lm28469 805 days ago
> Humans are carnivores.

That doesn't tell the whole story. Felines become ill on vegetarian diet, humans can definitely thrive on vegetarian diets.

Also there is such a wide spectrum between modern animal factories insanity and sustainable meat eating, you can't throw them both in the same box and rationalize everything by saying "OOMAN EAT MEAT! OOMAN NEED MEAT!"

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> Felines become ill on vegetarian diet, humans can definitely thrive on vegetarian diets.

Sort of. Humans would die on a paleo vegetarian diet. We need modern supplements and/or cultured bacteria. The same is true of cats; they can survive on a vegetarian diet but only with supplements (although it's much, much harder to do this right with cats than it is for humans).