Peta has gone to far....

Heath said:
Banjo, For a dog and a cat to be a true carnivore, they would have to not eat plant and grass is a plant matter. I have seen dogs eat salad off the bowl and cats laying down nibbling on carrot sticks. You can eat grass, just the kind that does not cut your tongue. One day there will be a market for grass from the ground. I think in Japan they do eat some type of grass grown locally and are eaten by human consumption.
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Dogs and cats are carnivores. There's no way to dispute such a fact. But human beings, that's a different story. They are omnivores by nature. What people may not know is that carnivores cannot develop atherosclerosis while we can. Why is that? Because we are not carnivores. Carnivores can take in a large amount of fat and cholesterol and not develop heart disease at all. It's how their bodies are designed. Herbivores cannot or they will develop heart diseases at an incredibly rapid rate.

A true example of an animal that eats plants exclusively would be I think, the whale shark or one of the shark species that are a ocean bottom plant eater. I am sure there are more animals on dry land that eat plants exclusively.
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They are called herbivores. Our bodies are really much, much closer to these of herbivores than carnivores. Just do a little research on body digestion and how similar our bodies are to these of herbivores in comparison to carnivores but our teeth doesn't indicate that we are entirely plant eaters. After all, you don't see cows with fangs. That would be a bit of a scary sight though.

Most of the animals and human beings are somewhere in a mixture of eating meat and plants but Scientifically speaking, yes science needs to separate and differ between what animal's eating habits are like.
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They are called omnivores. Bears is one of them.
 
That's so wrong, I wonder how their own members feel who are battling weight:roll: They get up in people's face when someone wrongs them , now they do this one to wrong another tsk tsk :shock: Rotten move indeed.
 
Source: carnivore - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: car·ni·vore
Function: noun
Etymology: ultimately from Latin carnivorus
Date: 1840
1 : any of an order (Carnivora) of typically flesh-eating mammals that includes dogs, foxes, bears, raccoons, and cats; broadly : a carnivorous animal
2 : a carnivorous plant
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Source: omnivore - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: om·ni·vore
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin omnivora, neuter plural of omnivorus, from Latin
Date: 1887
: one that is omnivorous
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Source: omnivorous - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: om·niv·o·rous
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin omnivorus, from omni- + -vorus -vorous
Date: circa 1656
1 : feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
2 : avidly taking in everything as if devouring or consuming <an omnivorous reader>

— om·niv·o·rous·ly adverb
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Technically, Banjo is correct. But if I could be just a carnivore I would be. Whenever I used the term (and out of context as I now know thanks to Banjo) all I mean is that I am a meat eater.
 
[@ roadrunner, me too!]

Also theres a difference between:
obligate carnivore (cat)
carnivore (dog)
omnivore (bear/human/most primates/many birds/many rodents)
herbivore (cow/ the rest of the rodents)
obligate herbivore (rabbit)

The obligate (meal type) do not receive ANY nutrition from the 'wrong' diet, carnivores and herbivorous that are not strict/obligate can process (incompletely) the other type of diet. Of course these animals can swallow the 'wrong' type of food, doesn't mean they get any nutrition out of it.

Of course science has gone on to have other groups:
fruit-eaters, poop-eaters, blood-eaters, seed-eaters, insect-eaters, fish-eaters fungus-eaters, carrion-eaters, Bactria-eaters... and so on.


Whale sharks are 'skimmers' or filter feeders they eat plankton.
 
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FireTiger said:
[@ roadrunner, me too!]

Also theres a difference between:
obligate carnivore (cat)
carnivore (dog)
omnivore (bear/human/most primates/many birds/many rodents)
herbivore (cow/ the rest of the rodents)
obligate herbivore (rabbit)

The obligate (meal type) do not receive ANY nutrition from the 'wrong' diet, carnivores and herbivorous that are not strict/obligate can process (incompletely) the other type of diet. Of course these animals can swallow the 'wrong' type of food, doesn't mean they get any nutrition out of it.

Of course science has gone on to have other groups:
fruit-eaters, poop-eaters, blood-eaters, seed-eaters, insect-eaters, fish-eaters fungus-eaters, carrion-eaters, Bactria-eaters... and so on.


Whale sharks are 'skimmers' or filter feeders they eat plankton.
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Poop-eaters, blood-eaters and insect-eaters? Now I wonder why I don't feel like cooking dinner anymore. :P
 
Banjo is right. You CANNOT survive on meats alone. We don't have the ability to produce Vitamin C and it requires consuming plants to get vitamin C. Carnivores can produce vitamin C without needing plants.

Hence, we are omnivores.
 
Human beings need a mixture of everything to maintain living a healthy & good life. :cool2:

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LOL! :laugh2: All that has occurred is that the poster has left the men's restroom and gone mainstream for all to see.

I think PETA is a fine organization and have no problem with their ads. It's the underlying stories that I learn about that concerns me why people want to eat meat, especially with the drugs that are used in those animals.

Has anyone seen the video of the calf being born and as soon as its out of the mother, workers are right there dragging the calf away and using a pitchfork on the cow? That is sick!

People never used to get sick by eating beef and we hear about beef being destroyed because of bacteria. This sure as heck didn't happen 100 years ago!
 
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