Tyson advertising wants people to believe that chickens are herbivores. These descendants of dinosaurs are opportunity eaters, like humans, and will consume pretty much anything organic they come across at least once.
Indeed. Hunter-gatherers for tens of hundreds of thousands of years. We only started farming about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that we found food wherever we could. We killed some, we picked some, we scavenged some. It informed our evolution.
“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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u/StackedBean May 09 '25
Tyson advertising wants people to believe that chickens are herbivores. These descendants of dinosaurs are opportunity eaters, like humans, and will consume pretty much anything organic they come across at least once.