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Because they're different

Can't break down grass in our stomachs.

For the same reason we can drink fresh water but not salt water

Because different animals can eat different things.

You can eat grass.

It just

1. Tastes awful
2. The grass outside is not sanitary

The body's digestive lacks bacteria to create enzymes to break down the cellulose that grass is primarily made of.

You can, I ate some wheat grass yesterday

Corn, wheat, oats, and rice, are all grasses.

I like when people say its different withlit any explanation.

Thank you

Might as well have just told me that You just CANT.

Were not ruminants.

We eat all sorts of grass

we do eat grasses.

Friends,

if you have working teeth and jaws, sure you can eat grass.

go eat some, and report back.

I think that really are MADE to eat grass, have more complex digestive systems.

Cows have 4 compartments to their stomachs.

Plants are harder to break down.

You're not supposed to eat it raw. I'm told the proper way to prepare it involves rolling it in a paper tube and lighting one end on fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVgF2uJa4I

No one's stopping you from eating grass, TC. Be the change you want to see in the world.

tankboy posted...

Corn, wheat, oats, and rice, are all grasses.

They are grasses we only eat the seeds of, not the leaves (for the most part). We could eat cooked leaves of most of those but they are essentially worthless in terms of nutrition.

Your standard lawn grass is not the same biologically as domesticated grain crops. Eating grass seeds would be possible but the actual leaves - the "grass" part of grass - contains enough silica minerals to wreck your teeth if you ate any significant amount of it. It would still be of minimal nutritional value but better than nothing, and historically people have eaten grass in extreme famines. If for some reason you find yourself in that situation, probably the best method would be to make a smoothie out of it to avoid chewing microscopic silica bits.

Part of the value of animal husbandry is to turn large quantities of unusable plant matter into usable food products. Grass is shit to eat but goats, cows, rabbits, etc. are much easier to eat.

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Fucking lol

tankboy posted...

Corn, wheat, oats, and rice, are all grasses.

You don't eat the leafy parts!

wheat is a grass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU5cdkZMSpw

An answer to this question on Reddit says we evolved not to be able to digest tough-to-digest things like cellulose so we have more energy for our brains.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/15aviu0/eli5_why_cant_we_eat_grass/

Id rather touch grass

Wheatgrass juice is pretty good