The Food Chain4 Aug 2024

Ep. 1356: Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore?

Fred Provenza, Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Ecology at Utah State University, Author of Nourtishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom

(Animal and Human Natural Nutrition)

One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.

Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?

Back in the day… Way back in the day… We were all hunters and gatherers. That is to say, we hunted down and gathered up whatever nature had to offer, when nature wanted to offer it.

Then we got smart, and figured out how to manage the growth and development of plants. That cleverness allowed us to corral plants and animals, and live in cities.

Today we hunt and gather foods grown and packaged thousands of miles away. And we don’t even need mother nature nor her unpredictable offerings. Today we can just swing by a convenience store, grab a plastic bag of something that tastes good, and walk out the door.

Given all this extra time we now have, we have the opportunity to decide how we should go about this business of eating, and often our discussion become very heated. Those heated discussions lead us to ask…

Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?

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