From Wikipedia when I searched for ‘omnivore animals’. Wikipedia determined humans are granivores.
humans. (This is due to the average human diet mainly consisting of [grains]
This is what Wikipedia has determined
OldDoug
(Doug)
#2
But… But… I’m not just a seed predator! And aren’t dogs still primarily carnivorous?
Daryl_G_Jackson
(Daryl G Jackson )
#3
I always thought so dogs mainly eat meat but sometimes I have seen them eat grass, my yorkie loves green beans. Humans never ate grain products until the Egyptians started farming wheat. However the Chinese ate brown rice and were fine until humans refined it to white, now they are just as obese as Americans. The bread and grain products humans ate 150 years ago are not the same because of being highly refined. Imagine how rugged bread was before refinement. The body had to work harder to process that. Now refined grains is super easy for the body to process and put directly as glucose in bloodstream. It’s more complicated than that but that is the gist.
collaroygal
(KCKO, KCFO 🥥)
#4
Just about anyone can join up and edit Wikipedia. It does not always have correct information.
I do agree that a lot of people are not so much vegetarian/vegan/omnivore as grainivores. I sure was when I was vegetarian. I eat why more veggies these days than when I was vegetarian, because grain was the base of my diet, wheat, rices, & quinoa and any others I could locate.
This is probably true of Western civilization groups but other populations gathered seeds from grasses and roots and used them in their foods, like the Australian aboriginals further back. Wild millet was a common food. They either practiced conservation (leaving some behind for next year) or planted seeds for the future. While I haven’t read any research on African food growing customs before Egypt, the Au Aboriginal settlement of Au has been pushed back as far as 40,000 yrs ago, and remains of slash and burn type farming have been found.
Daryl_G_Jackson
(Daryl G Jackson )
#5
Lol, aboriginals did not farm, and no other peoples were in Australia until Great Britain deemed it a prisoner colony. And it was not a processed grain. Have you seen ‘The Magic Pill’?
Okay, ‘organized’ farming started in Egypt.
juice
(Running from stupidity)
#6
No, because Pete Evans will say anything to anyone at any time, no matter how moronic, in order to get his head on TV.
Which is why no reputable educational institution allows it as a source.
LeCheffre
(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman )
#7
Wikipedia does not determine anything. Wiki editors make edits and other editors may challenge or change their edits. Pretty much anyone can be a wiki editor.
Humans are current granivores. That’s due to the 1980 US Dietary Guidelines hoodwinking the world into eating 300g+ of carbohydrates a day. Technically, the definitions of carnivore, omnivore, herbivore and so on are based on observation not optimal. I am technically an obligate carnivore, getting 90% of my food from meat. As humans can thrive on vegan diet, pure carnivore diets and all manner of mixtures between, we are collectively classified as omnivorous. Regardless of what some wiki editor may think.
PS- the page on humans, in the portion labeled Diet says, “ Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material.[130][131]”
