I know, I KNOW, we are omnivores (you, me, maybe not our llm friends, but most of us)… but that doesn’t quite line up with biological necessity.
I would argue we are facultative omnivores, but obligate carnivores. We can eat plants for efficiency (famines and whatnot), but they are not necessary for life. Meat, however, is necessary - at the very least we would have b vitamin deficiencies without meat, and babies wouldn’t develop into healthy humans without it.
People will argue, and i love you all for it, that maybe this applies historically but in the modern food environment we can engineer our way out of this obligation - sure, that’s true, but when speaking of our species appropriate and native diet - we would still be obligate carnivores
You can argue anything, but that’s not what the words you’re using mean, they aren’t medically true, and I can only hope somebody snaps you out of your delusions before the self harm goes too far.
What medical concerns did Jet raise in this post?
The words Jet uses are used with the correct meaning: We are at the very least meso-carnivores, since we require meat in our diet, but can also consume plants. Since bio-availability of plant nutrition is low, it does appear that we aren’t particularly well adapted to eating them. But we need not depend solely on animal sources, so we aren’t exactly obligate carnivores, by definition.
Hence Jet’s question.
For real. Like, I don’t care if someone wants to get scurvy but they shouldn’t be able to misinform others.
You are yourself misinformed, I’m afraid. It’s not possible to get scurvy this way. It’d be something interesting for you to read about on a weekend, perhaps.
If you want to get scurvy, you have to avoid meat. Despite the myth - fresh meat has vitamin c in it, it has been a historic CURE for scurvy. In a glucose free diet there is less competition for the glut4 transporter, which will take up the vitamin c… plus meat provides essential material the body would use vitamin c to produce… in a animal based diet there is less demand for vitamin c overall.
There is no documented case of someone contracting scurvy on a animal based diet, just consider the inuit who survive in the arctic circle without access to fresh fruit.