B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 18, 2024

Hmm…what sort of grass are we talking about here?

It’s logical.

Is crabgrass both a plant and an animal?

Whales are carnivores.

Some people say they’re vegetarians because they don’t eat their friends. My friends are plants.

It not about how fat you is but it about how active you is.

“How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?” Larry Niven, The Ringworld Engineers

Fun Fact: Mankind is the biggest grazer of grass on the planet. Wheat, rice, oats, barley, maize are all forms of grass.

My lawn hasn’t tried to escape me yet.

Horses are all muscle: no meat

Well, actually, cellulose is very hard to digest without bacterial help. Those that manage it have bulky digestive systems.

That explains us, as overweight carnivores (really omnivores, but we’re discussing carnivores). We are not running down dinner like we should. If early hunters were lean it would be a bit of proof. Our problem now is finding a critter we can hunt (without sitting in a tree with rifle and scope). Killing a cow might be easy with a sword or axe, chop off its head, but the real work would be hauling the carcass back home without the rancher shooting you.

Over the last 65 years or so of nutrition theories I have heard the “truth” seems to vary radically every year. In the 1960s the Food Pyramid was the center of our health classes in school; now it is decried as a dairy industry promotional idea. In the 1970s the main theory about our weight control was that every calorie counted; as a science class assignment I kept track of my daily calorie intake for a week. I consumed about 3500 calories per day and my PE coach assigned me a goal of putting on at least two pounds every month; I never met that goal. Walking/running two miles to and from school (uphill both ways in the Los Angeles snow, of course!) had a lot to do with that, but I didn’t put on weight in the summer. Similarly, I developed my half gallon or so of Coca Cola consumption per day in my late teens, but I cycled about a hundred miles a week and never gained weight.

I have long ago lost faith in any of the popular weight loss diets. Several can deliver weight loss but nearly all come with health risks. Wikipedia leads off its article on the Atkins diet “The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate fad diet devised by Robert Atkins in the 1970s…” but my nurse (retired from a career in geriatric nursing) explained it was a legitimate diet meant to be prescribed for specific medical needs. It was later hijacked for fad dieting. Truth can be mighty elusive, and we are rarely sure when we find it.

Bobby K jr is going to take care of that real quick, boy howdy.

Brilliant deduction!!!!

Eventually, humans figured out how to make weapons, Before that we could outrun neither prey nor predators. I wonder how we survived that period.

Early humans probably did not bathe often. Maybe we didn’t taste good.

I choose to wait until the cattle convert the grains and grass into meat before I consume it.

Hunting takes a lot of energy, and an unsuccessful chase burns as much energy as a successful one. It’s one reason predators rarely go after any prey that isn’t already impaired or weakened.

Sheep don’t fight back, which is why loosing a huge flock of sheep on the range is, for wolves and coyotes, like throwing a thousand chocolate bars on the floor of a preschool.

I think they’re both right. Which kind of begs the question, how exactly is this a joke? They’re just stating facts.

?…..or that……..?

For Thanksgiving, I’m going to eat turkey and ham with a green salad some green bean casserole and deviled eggs etc ….. I’m not vegetarian nor vegan. I love animals, and I love plants. They all have the equal right to be part of my feast. Life is good.

Algernon, a cheetah, replied, you try running 75 MPH and you’ll lean out too.

Why are herbivores less intelligent than carnivores? It takes no skill and cunning to sneak up on a leaf.

Because lean is healthier. Unhealthy predators die young.

With my luck I’d chew the grass that gives Mad Cow disease

He has a point, you don’t have to chase grass.

Never thought of that.

Thought-provoking.