Are humans technically necrophages?
We do eat dead animal. Are animals we cook not technically in a state of decomposition? Even a cooked steak will begin to rot with time. Sure we're omnivores, but that doesn't preclude us from being necrophages does it?
5 Answers
- Elaine MLv 73 weeks agoBest answer
Since we won't eat the decomposed stuff like vultures do, no we're not necrophages.
By the simplest definition of necrophage, any mammal is classified as such, but the intended meaning doesn't actually cover that wide a factor.
- Wire and StringLv 73 weeks ago
technology (cooking, controlled fermenting) is not biology, and therefore we should not use biological terms to describe something we can only do by technological means.
- Anonymous3 weeks ago
I assume if you don't eat meat you eat vegetables and they are dead when you eat them. Climb off your ivory tower and stop feeling self righteous.
- MarkLv 73 weeks ago
No, because if humans eat rotting food, they will either get very sick of maybe die. Hence we have things like refrigerators/freezers/salt/vinegar to slow the rotting process WAY down.
- What do you think of the answers? You can sign in to give your opinion on the answer.
- 3 weeks ago
All fruit and vegetables we eat are decomposing, This is a redundant question..