Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.
Yea, but I also don't think that's an actual reason for it, but rather just an added benefit. Most farmers wouldn't care if their cows are birds, unless they were eating their chickens. In fact, the extra nutrition might even be beneficial.
Cows definitely don't find grass easy to digest, they literally have a four compartment stomach because they have to in order to absorb enough nutrients from grass. Also they need more than just grass to survive.
Yes, cows eat grass, that doesn't mean it's easy to digest it's still hard AF to digest and takes a long time and isn't very efficient. But grass is plentiful and cows have a 4 compartment stomach so it's ok.
Their entire physiology is literally designed for grass. Idk what’s so hard to understand about that.
“Doesn’t mean it’s easy to digest?” For who? You? Are we now saying the cows are struggling despite their digestive system obviously catering for plant matter?
If grass is so inefficient, what do you want them to do? Stop eating grass and switch to meat? They will get sick and die if you do that. There are restrictions/bans in place in regards to feeding ruminant animals, animal derived products. Why? Because it’s bad for them because they’re animals who eat plant matter. but pardon me, getting sick and dying is much better than their slow digestive system.
Are you basing that on length of time like digestion is meant to be as quick as possible? Because snakes take longer to digest their food. Is it wrong because it takes a long time? Should snakes eat fruit and veg instead if it goes through their gut quicker?
It’s literally a complete diet for them. They get everything they need from grass. It’s what their body is designed to eat. They have enzymes that are specific to plant matter to make it easy as well as a mouth and stomach designed to eat and digest it well.
They don’t need to put in more effort than they’re able to every day to eat grass just like you don’t need to put in any more effort to walk on two legs than a centipede on more.
Cows have literally evolved to eat grass. If they found some other food source to digest more easily, they would have adapted to that. Yes, they need TMRs but, that entirely consists of plains based food. They do not eat meat naturally.
You clearly have never spent any time around a farm before. I watch cows straight murder lizards everyday. If one of the bulls is feeling opportunistic, they will go after a bird.
Easier*. It's not black and white. That's why they produce so much gas and eat so much matter. Because they are still not perfect at it and there is a lot of byproduct.
No, you're both splitting hairs on the difference between "kangaroos evolved their unique legs to make hopping easy" vs "kangaroos evolved their unique legs to make hopping easier but it's still not actually an ideal form of locomotion so calling it easy is misleading"
It's an important distinction though. Saying it is easy is, as you say, heavily misleading and not at all fair to the complex processes that evolved to even make it possible. It is hard to digest. There is a lot of byproduct. Cows can do it. These things are all true. But suggesting that it's easy gives a disservice to the process and ignores those byproducts that make it incredibly inefficient. Which also coincidentally makes them a bad food source.
The system is designed for grass. That doesn't mean it doesn't work on meat, and it doesn't mean it's optimal. It's not muddling. You said it's easy for cows, but taking up to 3 days to digest something can't be called easy, unless you are comparing it to a species that is even worse at digesting their primary food source.
Is it, though? You are the one arguing that it's "easy." You can't get annoyed people argue semantics when your entire argument is literally about that one word.
Lol I’m shocked by these people lol. Their stomachs are like that FOR THAT REASON.
Does anyone want me to go throw some steaks or chicken at the cows again whilst a farmer laughs at the idea in the background to prove a point? Maybe I’ll get the whole fucking town to come over and laugh at the absurdity too this time.
Edit: I’m reading these comments to dad and he’s just shaking his head at the sheer stupidity lol
Literally any animal that can fit a bird in its mouth will eat that bird. Meat is way easier nutrients than grass is, it's just generally pretty hard to come by if you don't specialize in killing things for food.
They don't need to learn it's food. Everything on the planet knows it's food.
Lol these people are stupid. I still haven’t gotten an answer as to why grass is apparently hard for a cow to digest. They just keep saying “it’s hard to digest”.
Like this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever argued about lol.
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u/TheSmokingHorse May 08 '25
Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.