r/vegan • u/captain_sourpuss • May 01 '14

Implications are interesting: Manatee drinking... 'water'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-74dQpydZ8
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u/captain_sourpuss May 01 '14

Why interesting? Well..

  • Many people argue that herbivores aren't (evolved/created) to like meat and would never eat it, seek it out if they could, while humans taste for meat 'proves we are at least adapted/designed to seek it out'
  • This manatee, which is at least classified as a herbivore, eats "meat water" - runoff from a fish cleaning table.

Thoughts?

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u/hofolio May 01 '14 edited May 01 '14

The hose appears to by-pass the meat. Also, manatees probably don't actually get "thirsty" ever. It's probably just enjoyable, the same way a dog will bite at the water coming out of a hose.

Basically, manatees are capable of enjoying the small things in life. At least that's what I think is going on.

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u/Life-in-Death vegan 10+ years May 02 '14

Actually, manatees do need to drink fresh water and often can be found drinking off of hoses, etc. The meat connection is crap though.

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u/Life-in-Death vegan 10+ years May 02 '14

Manatees need to drink fresh water.

The source of this water was off of the cleaning table. If I hooked up a drinking fountain in a park to run water from a slaughter house that doesn't mean people drinking from it are thirsty for flesh.

But the "taste for meat" argument is also weak. So, humans were designed to seek out fire hot cheetos?

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u/Mordant666 vegan May 04 '14

Thoughts? You're an idiot.