• MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    A quick google search will tell you what the primary diet of mice is: nuts and berries, small vertebrates and carrion.

    Not USDA grade prime rib.

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        15 hours ago

        Dude… it’s right in the article:

        In the animal study, mice were fed three types of red meat – pork, beef and mutton – every day for two weeks.

        Not sure where you the from, by where I’m at- mice can’t take down a pig, cow, or sheep. Even if they worked together with the other hunter/gatherer mice in their tribe and really thought hard about how badly they wanted it.

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          8 hours ago

          You clearly don’t get it. This is not about what they eat.

          If you mix two chemicals, they react the same way. It doesn’t matter if this happens inside a mouse or a human.

          Their reaction to it might be different, which is what the article ponts out. But the gut biome still compares to what’s inside a human, so if you introduce something like red meat, the measured reaction inside will be similar, even if it’s not in their diet, like you shallowly point out.

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            8 hours ago

            Oh I get it. It’s entirely about what they eat. Otherwise, the scientists wouldn’t have FED them meat. They’d liquify it and inject it.

            Their gut biome is entirely different from ours. There are foods we eat daily that is poison to them. They as hard as you’d like, it this is bullshit science. Essentially an easy way to get grant funds.

            Nothing more.