>>14214106Agreed on the first point, disagreed on the latter. Ruminants eat almost zero carbs, in a way. Yes, cellulose and fiber are carbs, technically, but animals can't digest those. What can digest those things then?
Fermentative bacteria. Ruminant animals essentially "farm" bacteria in their gut, and then digest the bacteria by washing it down with hydrochloric acid.
Essentially, ruminant animals derive the vast majority of their energy from saturated fatty acids. Just like carnivores do. In fact, very few animals get most of their energy from carbohydrates- many animals can supplement their diet with carb sources, but no big mammal can rely on carbs. Some small primates do, hummingbirds, etc.
It takes a retard to think that humans are somehow special. We're higher order primates with no fermentative ability, no rumen, no ceacum. Which makes us facultative carnivores with the ability to subsist on carbs. We get diabetes and heart disease from doing so, because in our evolutionary history the most substantial carb source we'd have access to would be a beehive. We simply aren't adapted to eating any substantial amounts of sugar- probably ok once in a blue moon, but daily intake leads to disease.
