More Cuteoverload wank
I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

Yesterday on Cute Overload a series of pictures featuring a fat tuxedo cat draped over a couch.

On the second comment involves how unhealthy it is for a cat to be so fat.

Over 400 comments later ranging from it's still a healthy weight for a cat, personal anecdotes, feline and human obesity and vegetarianism.

I think my personal favorite is

2. I don't want to get into the whole Darwin thing, but there is only about a 2% difference in our DNA and the DNA of monkeys. Monkeys are vegans.

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spawn_of_kong
2007-04-12 04:00 am UTC (link)

Humans do not have carnivorous teeth - not like other carnivorous animals such as cats and dogs. Our couple of teeth that are slightly pointy were, in my opinion, designed to crack nuts and things like that, primordially.

Well...yes and no.

Certainly we have canines, but those aren't meant to crack nuts; that's the job of our molars, IIRC, so it's perfectly natural to assume there was some meat in our ancestors' diets (Then again, gorillas, which are mostly vegetarian, have ginormous canines nonetheless). But we definitely need fruits and veggies in our diet as well. So, you could say that we're, oh, I dunno, omnivorous?

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peejee
2007-04-12 04:28 am UTC (link)

Nobody seems to like the word "omnivore" these days. I don't know why - it's what we ARE after all. And being an omnivore doesn't mean we HAVE to eat our body weight in meat every day, or even that we should, yet somehow people just don't get it.

I remember reading some article about a new wave of vegetarians who occasionally ate meat (like, real meat, not just fish that some vegetarians do, but there was wank about that previously). They had some fancy-smancy word for it and I was all "dude - say it with me - Oooooooooomnivore!!"

We should go back to carnivore, herbivore, omnivore. Besides, with those titles, we could conceivably eat each other as nature intended.

"But that is called cannibalism and is frowned on in most cultures...."

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	dragonfangirl 2007-04-12 08:44 am UTC (link)
	I think you don't need to read any further in that statement than "in my opinion." In her opinion, the sky is green and humans walk on their hands, and in her opinion, sharp surfaces rather than flat ones are used to crack nuts. Right. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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