Tell that to my cat! He loves black olives, field mushrooms, broccoli, potatoes and many other vegetarian things. I have a friend who has a cat who is really crazy about feferoni. I you give her some ham and some feferoni she will eat the feferoni then only eat the ham if she is hungry...
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A meat-eating predator perhaps, but still not carnivorous. Not any more than human vegitarians (who I will never understand) are herbavores. A bear living off meat is still an omnivore, as is a human living off plants.
A bit off the inital thread perhaps, but seemed relevent to confirm that a vegetarian-fed cat (or person or free range chicken or whatever) is not an herbivore. They're omnivores who aren't getting any meat. You're not carniverous only while you're ingesting meat, but evolutionarily (like, we're all bipeds, even those of who ride bikes or use wheelchairs). Perhaps a few million years of meatless diet...
For all the poo-pooing of Newsweek and a 'big self-interested' company that I see here... it was a nice little piece, and not completely uninformative.
Maybe most/. readers are tech-types that take for granted the idea that employees' inherent capabilities will be recognized, or even valued, by their bosses, or that enthusiastic communication with your coworkers should be encouraged because it might be productive, but not everyone works in such a progressive atmosphere. Conversation, let alone IMing and emails to coworkers, are still actively discouraged in many workplaces, regardless of their work-relatedness or potential to facilitate innovation. Many, many companies would do well to emulate such tactics as were fluffily decscibed here, and maybe some students and younger, or simply less worldly, workers would benefit from learning that there may be another way.
No, it's not going to win a Pulitzer, but perhaps useful nonetheless.
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A meat-eating predator perhaps, but still not carnivorous. Not any more than human vegitarians (who I will never understand) are herbavores. A bear living off meat is still an omnivore, as is a human living off plants.
A bit off the inital thread perhaps, but seemed relevent to confirm that a vegetarian-fed cat (or person or free range chicken or whatever) is not an herbivore. They're omnivores who aren't getting any meat. You're not carniverous only while you're ingesting meat, but evolutionarily (like, we're all bipeds, even those of who ride bikes or use wheelchairs). Perhaps a few million years of meatless diet...
Maybe most /. readers are tech-types that take for granted the idea that employees' inherent capabilities will be recognized, or even valued, by their bosses, or that enthusiastic communication with your coworkers should be encouraged because it might be productive, but not everyone works in such a progressive atmosphere. Conversation, let alone IMing and emails to coworkers, are still actively discouraged in many workplaces, regardless of their work-relatedness or potential to facilitate innovation. Many, many companies would do well to emulate such tactics as were fluffily decscibed here, and maybe some students and younger, or simply less worldly, workers would benefit from learning that there may be another way.
No, it's not going to win a Pulitzer, but perhaps useful nonetheless.