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Meat and Life Expectancy

SaskiaKC said:
Hmm, that's debatable. We have the grinding teeth of herbivores, not the tearing fangs of obligate carnivores such as cats.

Back in the beginning we were given plants to eat. Not animals.

That said, I do eat meat. I like it, and my body works better when it gets enough meat, preferably beef. Despite my lack of fangs.
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as a matter of note, we come equipped with an appendix, whose function apparently was for dealing with cellulose, which is a prime constituent of grass. But it is a redundant organ and serves no real purpose now. Seems we have evolved so that now eating grass is no longer nutritional for us and would be toxic in large quantities.

My cat is an obligate carnivore, but yet when I let him out, the first thing he does is gorge on grass. I call him Atilla the Hun(gry) cat because no flying object is safe from his claws and he goes loopy when there is a buzz buzz around.
 
Oldvatr said:
My cat is an obligate carnivore, but yet when I let him out, the first thing he does is gorge on grass. I call him Atilla the Hun(gry) cat because no flying object is safe from his claws and he goes loopy when there is a buzz buzz around.
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Cats eat grass to help with hairballs.
 
Have to say I’ve heard so many different things about so many diets and foods , read one week red wine is good for u next week it’s bad , same with meat same with veggies heard all the arguements about teeth especially when I was veggie for 13/14 years, now I eat what I call a balance diet I love meat all forms from beef to lambs hearts , I also like veggie food have substituted many a soya bean for a meat recipe , one thing I found when I was veggie was people who weren’t always gave me n excuse why they were meat eaters personally I didn’t give a #### I did what I wanted , and I still do that , I try to eat healthily ( whatever that is at the time ) , it’s for me nobody else I love what some people call rabbit food but I also love a good fry up and chippy ! But I do it in moderation and I personally think that’s the key ,
 
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Oldvatr said:
as a matter of note, we come equipped with an appendix, whose function apparently was for dealing with cellulose, which is a prime constituent of grass. But it is a redundant organ and serves no real purpose now. Seems we have evolved so that now eating grass is no longer nutritional for us and would be toxic in large quantities.

My cat is an obligate carnivore, but yet when I let him out, the first thing he does is gorge on grass. I call him Atilla the Hun(gry) cat because no flying object is safe from his claws and he goes loopy when there is a buzz buzz around.
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there is now new research indicating that the appendix may be a safe storage area for good bacteria, to prevent it being wiped out by intestinal problems or illness, and is part of our immune system. Sorry, I cant get to find the research just now. This is one of them: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109162333.htm
 
I still will eat meat till the day I die.

I still have my appendix, good bacteria or not I do not know what diffence it makes to be honest. I have seen some of my old skool frens that had suffered a lot of pain before it was removed. :bigtears:
 
lucylocket61 said:
there is now new research indicating that the appendix may be a safe storage area for good bacteria, to prevent it being wiped out by intestinal problems or illness, and is part of our immune system. Sorry, I cant get to find the research just now. This is one of them: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109162333.htm
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I have seen this alternative explanation/ But until there is research to show that the large proportion of the population who have had their appendix removed suffer from a higher rate of infections or have infections specific to the lack of the so called benefits of the appendix, or lastly if those without an appendix suffer longer recovery from chronic diarrhea due to not having their safe repositoruy of all microbes good, then I remain a skeptic.
if the appendix has these protective mictobes, then why do so many of us suffer inflammation and infection in this organ, that requires surgical removel?
 
Robbity2 said:
I didn't know we humans had issues with hairballs? o_Oo_O

(Sorry - but I'm very much in need of a bit of nonsensical frivolity just now...:sorry: )
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We have issues with hairballs when we have to clean up the ones our cats have hacked up. Never in the litterbox. Always at three o'clock in the morning.
:yuck::depressed::hungover:
 
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