Daring_Do 552 November 28, 2015 Share November 28, 2015 Daring Do Unless school cafeterias have changed since I went to school, the mere fact that the alleged meat was greenish doesn't mean it was vegetarian. Sister Hooves Social, Sweetie cooks eggs for Rarity. Thus, ponies are NOT 100% vegetarian. If EQ ponies are like Earth horses, they can't completely digest meat, but it isn't poison to them. We can't fully digest Mexican food & we still eat it. Also, AJ has pigs. It is possible they are used for hunting truffles (expensive mushroom, pigs used to hunt it IRL) & for composting. It is also possible they are used for lard (The ad department calls it shortening, but it is still lard) Why else would they domesticate Pigs 0_0 For that pork and bacon grease. This was explained by Word of Faust: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetolebob18 728 November 28, 2015 Share November 28, 2015 Wether or not ponies are vegetarians, I think Griffons are NOT. That beak, those talons, they are raptors (hunters). In Griffon the Brush Off Gilda eats an apple, so they are omnivores not predators. IMO, Dragons can also eat meat, although Spike seems to get by w what ponies eat + gems. The original Minotaur from Greek legends ate people, so it's possible EQ Minotaurs are omnivores or carnivores. In short, it is possible the pigs on the Apple farm are for export, not for sale to ponies. As to Spike being able to eat the"baked bads" (Apple Buck Season?), Dragons can digest rocks. This argues a digestive track that could defeat a Borgia (For the historically challenged, they were infamous poisoners) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cwanky 17,652 November 28, 2015 Share November 28, 2015 Awesome find! Considering she talks to insects which are lower on the evolutionary scale than fish, I wonder what it felt like for her to murder some poor fish that were just coming or of torpor? I suppose it's possible, however, that these fish were already dead - frozen and preserved in the ice and she goes around during Winter wrap-up and finds these unfortunate souls and puts them to good use for the other animals? Sadly nope. They weren't just alive - they were cute and quite happy actually! Fluttershy even seemed happy to see them! But I really don't mind. What I do mind is this pointless need to sugarcoat and hide away "scary and bad" themes from kids. Eating meat isn't bad, its natural. Without predators, you'd get overpopulation, chaos and a fast dwindling of resources. Eating meat or killing animals is often fine. I'm not some die hard vegan or social justice worker - what Fluttershy did was completely understandable and natural - considering many of her pets are carnivores. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truffles 2,033 November 29, 2015 Share November 29, 2015 (edited) Sadly nope. They weren't just alive - they were cute and quite happy actually! Fluttershy even seemed happy to see them! That pic is awesome! Next to the finale, this is the best thing I've seen today! They looked so happy to see Fluttershy, only to be betrayed a little while later! Edited November 29, 2015 by Truffles 2 Are you a Spike fan? Click on the image above for a compendium of nearly every Spike scene in the show! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Fox 5,952 November 29, 2015 Share November 29, 2015 Ahem. They do eat meat, actually. Turkeys or chickens, to be precise. Objection! Where comics conflict with the show, the show wins. Invalid evidence! 1 Happy minion of The Fabulous One! Signature by Midnightive Check out my blog! https://mlpforums.com/blog/1083-sunny-side-den/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider float 2,539 November 29, 2015 Author Share November 29, 2015 Sadly nope. They weren't just alive - they were cute and quite happy actually! Fluttershy even seemed happy to see them! But I really don't mind. What I do mind is this pointless need to sugarcoat and hide away "scary and bad" themes from kids. Eating meat isn't bad, its natural. Without predators, you'd get overpopulation, chaos and a fast dwindling of resources. Eating meat or killing animals is often fine. I'm not some die hard vegan or social justice worker - what Fluttershy did was completely understandable and natural - considering many of her pets are carnivores. LOL hey sushi how you doing? Damn Flutters you're mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavatina Operetta 3 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 Taco Tuesday. Enough said. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBright 4 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 Not only would horses naturally be vegetarians, but also in a world where even little forest creatures seem to have some sort of sentience they are probably trying to avoid fridge-horror by having them eat animals that are intelligent and self-aware. There will probably be slip-ups here and there like the eggs because that would be difficult to keep straight 100% of the time, but it's safe to assume they are either largely or entirely vegetarian. Also this show does not follow horse anatomy faithfully, at least in terms of digestion. There's one episode where some ponies got sick and appeared to be puking into buckets, where real-world horses can't throw up. It should be filed under the same cartoon rules that allow them to talk, do things on their hind legs that a quadruped couldn't, manipulate instruments that would require fingers with their hooves, or even talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megas 27,957 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 No they're vegetarian. If any sort of meat ever shows up, it's because the writers and animators made an uh-oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManaMinori 4,146 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 They eat meat in the series, as shown in many screenshotsvin past posts. Just as horses eat meat in real life, though it's not their natural diet. They DO eat meat. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxwgG31WBVSaZW51bDNjaENSdU0&usp=sharing&tid=0BxwgG31WBVSafnY1OTY4QVhxRktzUUZvSE9rWE1nSWJJWlU5Znl3dU1zX1YwdUFhczVfTDA 3 Under the Jellicle Moon- a site with cuteness, cat boys, and comic strips / Star Dreams Fanclub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBright 4 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 They eat meat in the series, as shown in many screenshotsvin past posts. Just as horses eat meat in real life, though it's not their natural diet. They DO eat meat. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxwgG31WBVSaZW51bDNjaENSdU0&usp=sharing&tid=0BxwgG31WBVSafnY1OTY4QVhxRktzUUZvSE9rWE1nSWJJWlU5Znl3dU1zX1YwdUFhczVfTDA That was a cool read, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WriteCodes46 178 December 2, 2015 Share December 2, 2015 Pinkie Pie's exact quote in Over a Barrel is that ponies are "strictly herbivores". Them eating eggs (or chocolate) is probably due to the writers not knowing or researching about proper horse diet. Heck, Lauren Faust stated early on that she intended the ponies to be as anatomically and physiologically correct as possible, yet in third (or second) episode they had them vomiting, which is impossible for a horse to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider float 2,539 December 3, 2015 Author Share December 3, 2015 That sounds very tasty Pork loin With some lamb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daring_Do 552 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 Taco Tuesday. Enough said. Except Sonata's not a pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManaMinori 4,146 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 (edited) Pinkie Pie's exact quote in Over a Barrel is that ponies are "strictly herbivores". Them eating eggs (or chocolate) is probably due to the writers not knowing or researching about proper horse diet. Heck, Lauren Faust stated early on that she intended the ponies to be as anatomically and physiologically correct as possible, yet in third (or second) episode they had them vomiting, which is impossible for a horse to do.it's not impossible. Just highly unlikely, unless the horse is very close to death "Normally, the mechanics are such that the horse's stomach ruptures before the valve yields. If material does pass from stomach out the esophagus, the horse is dead or nearly so. That's why horses can't vomit. But, sometimes they do" Source: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/wonderquest/2001-05-02-horse-throw-up.htm "horses have a weak vomiting reflex---in other words, the neural pathways that control that activity in other animals are poorly developed in horses, if they exist at all. All that said, however, vomiting in horses has occasionally been reported" Source:http://equusmagazine.com/article/qa-horses-vomit-28006 Would be nice if you did research before assuming the writers didn't do theirs. Edited December 3, 2015 by Nightmare Muffin 2 Under the Jellicle Moon- a site with cuteness, cat boys, and comic strips / Star Dreams Fanclub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Frost 271 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 (edited) COMPLETELY!! ...Vegetarian!! That is all. Edited December 3, 2015 by Twilight Frost 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavatina Operetta 3 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 Heh.Heh Heh. Heh Heh Heh Heh. Except Sonata's not a pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truffles 2,033 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 COMPLETELY!! ...Vegetarian!! That is all. Except, you can't rely on the character dialogue to accept something as 100% canon. Point in fact: Spike in S1E1 stated "I started out as a cute little purple and green egg," but then in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles": Oh, wait... And it was reconfirmed just last weekend when they showed his egg again in "The Cutie Re-Map, Pt 1". So the egg colors were not an animation error. Spike simply mis-spoke. So it's possible for a character to say (or sing) something that may not be accurate. Not that I think the Mane 6 are chowing down on hamburgers, but there could be some ponies that aren't as strict about such things, since there are images in the show (animation error or not) that show meat products. 3 Are you a Spike fan? Click on the image above for a compendium of nearly every Spike scene in the show! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daring_Do 552 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 Heh.Heh Heh. Heh Heh Heh Heh. image.png And she never has been a pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiFTGewEhrSCHutzen-4 8,831 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 I don't think they eat meat, I mean they are ponies and they only eat like hay, oats, fruits, veggies, well generally just non-meat. Though this may be old, in the episode 'A bird in the hoof' the one scene were AJ was trying to choose in which food she should star eating first, there was a sandwich there with veggies and a...ham. Don't know if that was like an error in putting a ham/veggie sandwich there. O.o "I'm the Messiah the gnashing of teeth, no one meets death until they see me, I am the Alpha and Omega..." -King 810 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Pip 775 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 Great relevant fic imo. Some won't like the concept but I like the idea of exploring social taboos. http://www.fimfiction.net/story/103728/twilights-secret I don't think they eat meat, I mean they are ponies and they only eat like hay, oats, fruits, veggies, well generally just non-meat. Though this may be old, in the episode 'A bird in the hoof' the one scene were AJ was trying to choose in which food she should star eating first, there was a sandwich there with veggies and a...ham. Don't know if that was like an error in putting a ham/veggie sandwich there. O.o Maybe they were trying to say in that scene that the nobles and such developed the taste for eating meat as it makes them feel above other forms of life like their general attitude portrays which is why she is frowning at it. Its symbolism. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WriteCodes46 178 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 (edited) Would be nice if you did research before assuming the writers didn't do theirs.But Pinkie Pie didn't die after eating the Baked Bads and vomiting, so it's still an error. Besides, a couple of worms aren't enough meat to kill a horse, in fact they would probably pass through undigested. Maybe they were trying to say in that scene that the nobles and such developed the taste for eating meat as it makes them feel above other forms of life like their general attitude portrays which is why she is frowning at it. Its symbolism.Well, their bodies certainly aren't above other forms of life, so it would be really hard for them to develop that taste, unless they enjoy frequent stomach pumpings. Edited December 3, 2015 by WriteCodes46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronamut 355 December 3, 2015 Share December 3, 2015 actually in the season premiere showing cadence getting married to shining armor, in the picnic scene I believe one of them was eating a meat sandwich. Click each below to see my work!Music | Art: | Spirituality | Chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daring_Do 552 December 4, 2015 Share December 4, 2015 actually in the season premiere showing cadence getting married to shining armor, in the picnic scene I believe one of them was eating a meat sandwich. Nope, no meat in that sandwich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronamut 355 December 4, 2015 Share December 4, 2015 hmm ok - but they do eat dairy and eggs, as their pastries all use eggs.. anyone seen anyone eat jello? Cuz gelatin is made from boiling animal bones and hide.. 1 Click each below to see my work!Music | Art: | Spirituality | Chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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