Posted on 03/20/2012 3:36:14 PM PDT by SMGFan
Bravo!
But apes are polyvores, not vegetarian.
How many animals are wiped out, both directly and by denial of living space, by farming? Hunting is as low impact on the environment as we can get. Farming amounts to strip mining or scorched earth practices.
I think hippos count too.
Just because something is able to, doesn’t mean it must.
Lots of birds eat meat too but do not have canines. There are still birds that have teeth but it doesn’t make them meat eaters. Form generally follows function but it can be misleading.
Panda still stands.
And besides in the beginning everyone and all the animals were designed to eat plants and herbs. We know it will be this way when Christ restores the earth and the animals will not prey on each other - Isaiah 11:6-11:7. 11:7 ends with the lion will eat straw like the ox. We already know a lion can be fed a vegetarian diet and live.
I didn’t think hippos had canines, pretty sure they didn’t.
Thanks, you are right, hippos have canine teeth, for fighting, not for meat eating.
If we wern’t suposed to eat meat animals wouldn’t have any!
Lots of experience feeding birds here. I can say confidently that most birds prefer meat if it is small enough pieces to manage.
Finches are the only birds that I have noticed avoiding meat, and preferring seed.
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