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knowitnone3yesterday at 10:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

you eat beef and you're only 73kg and eating a 600kg cow! Baffling!


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tredre3today at 12:12 AM

Thanks to tools, I'm a far more capable hunter than my cat. It's trivial for a human of any size to kill a slow moving cow. It's very hard to imagine any scenario where a domestic cat would be capable of hurting a cow, let alone kill and eat it.

nkrisctoday at 12:24 PM

Humans have been hunting prey many times larger than themselves for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years (maybe even millions).

ErroneousBoshtoday at 12:50 PM

Actually I'm well north of 100kg, and being a tool-using ape that's about 1/6th the weight of and considerably taller than the animal I want to eat it's a fairly easy task.

If I was 1/150th the weight of a cow with my eyeline roughly level with the top of the animal's foot, armed with teeth about 12mm long and sharp claws about 5mm long, I suspect it would be considerably more difficult.