Alex100🤍✝️

A plant-based diet is a full-time job, and no human has ever been hired for it. A cow has 4 stomachs, a 150-litre fermentation tank in the first one, and spends 8 hours a day chewing and 8 more chewing it again. About 40,000 jaw movements a day to turn grass into beef. A gorilla eats 18 kilos of leaves and stems a day, half its waking hours on the job, and runs the lot through a colon that takes up 60% of its gut. A panda spends 14 hours a day eating 12 kilos of bamboo and digests about a fifth of it. It has the gut of a carnivore and the diet of a lawnmower, and the result is an animal famous for being exhausted. A koala sleeps 20 hours a day because eucalyptus gives it almost nothing, and has a brain the size of a walnut rattling about in a skull built for something bigger. An elephant eats for 18 hours and passes half of it undigested. A horse has 30 metres of gut and will colic and die if it stops moving through. A rabbit is so bad at it that it eats its own droppings for a second pass. Every one of those animals carries the equipment. The vat, the extra stomachs, the 30 metres of pipe, the bacteria, the 18-hour shift. The human has 1 stomach, no vat, 7 metres of gut, no enzyme for cellulose, and finishes dinner in 12 minutes. Then he is told to eat 30 plants a week and wonders why he is bloated, tired, hungry by 10 and back at the fridge by 11. He is doing a cow's job without a cow's stomach, on a cow's hours, and the cow at least gets to lie down.