Neko no Te datte Yaku ni Tatsu - Ch. 12 - Are You Dumb?

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaarme]

I doubt industrially produced cat food has pathogens. Also, physiologically humans can eat great many substances that would harm a cat, but not vice versa, so in that sense cat food shouldn't contain anything poisonous to humans. Outside of prepared food, though, cats of course eat stuff that no human would, like freshly killed rodents and other small animals, raw (and wriggling). But it's not like humans would necessarily be incapable of eating such nasty things, especially if you were careful with the claws, bones, and beaks included.

 

[Gappy_Higashikata]

very….interesting sensei..

 

[HoangDinh]

was gonna ask can I eat that

 

[HoangDinh]

HOLY SHIT AUTHOR EAT THE STICK AFTER THE CAT ATE IT?? SHOULDN'T IT BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND? YIKES. GERMS! FROM THE CAT'S MOUTH.

 

[bestyrus]

are u perhaps suggesting that I should try eating cat food?

 

[HoangDinh]

are u perhaps suggesting that I should try eating cat food?

Well it's safe so you can do it without any worries. Just don't eat it after you've given some to your cat like what the author did here.

 

[OtakuMan93]

Cat's are just pure carnivores so as a general rule, if a cat can eat it, technically a human can. The difference is we should cook it first. Also the second layer of analysis is SHOULD you eat it...I'd vote no...

 

[xXPenisXx]

Sensei what the fuck

 

[StealthAria]

I doubt industrially produced cat food has pathogens. Also, physiologically humans can eat great many substances that would harm a cat, but not vice versa, so in that sense cat food shouldn't contain anything poisonous to humans. Outside of prepared food, though, cats of course eat stuff that no human would, like freshly killed rodents and other small animals, raw (and wriggling). But it's not like humans would necessarily be incapable of eating such nasty things, especially if you were careful with the claws, bones, and beaks included.

Humans can eat many of the same things as cats, just as they can with most other pets, but it is still not recommended to consume food intended for pets. Pet food may contain ingredients that were deemed unfit for human consumption, and often uses raw or undercooked meats because animals are not adapted to eating cooked food and cannot absorb nutrients efficiently from cooked foods.

 

[Kaarme]

Humans can eat many of the same things as cats, just as they can with most other pets, but it is still not recommended to consume food intended for pets. Pet food may contain ingredients that were deemed unfit for human consumption, and often uses raw or undercooked meats because animals are not adapted to eating cooked food and cannot absorb nutrients efficiently from cooked foods.

I'm not going to argue against the end result, but generally speaking cooking food, aside from killing pathogens, helps with making the nutrients more easily absorbed. That's basically why humans could prosper so much and sustain such high brain functionality. It might be too unnatural for pets for other reasons, but I'm not sure it's because of nutrient absorption. You might have better info, though.

 

[0mnifarious]

This author is wild; answering the questions many of us have secretly asked ourselves but were too smart too scared to discover the answers to.

 

[beep_repair]

Aaagh, now I want to eat the Ciao Stick

 

[arcosapphire]

I just started reading this, but...this is now the third recent manga I've read where there's talk of people eating cat food. The third. Is this becoming a strangely popular thing to do in Japan?

 

[74HC595]

Based Nobel.

 

[DaVince]

dog and cat food is specifically made to be edible by humans as well, by the way.

 

[cherriesgentoo]

I just started reading this, but...this is now the third recent manga I've read where there's talk of people eating cat food. The third. Is this becoming a strangely popular thing to do in Japan?

what are the first and second ones, then?

 

[arcosapphire]

what are the first and second ones, then?

The most salient was this one, but I can't remember what the other was. It's usually something that comes up on one page; I haven't been writing them down. Although I did just read a manhua chapter today in which a character says that the cat treats look tasty (she doesn't actually try it though).

There's actually been one or two others I ran into; at this point I'm just like, "I guess this is how things are now".

 

[HoangDinh]

dog and cat food is specifically made to be edible by humans as well, by the way.

that's not it, it's the other way around.
if you want to get into the nitty gritty details, dog and cat food are just coincidentally edible by humans. Because humans can eat a lot of stuff that other animals can, but dogs can cats can't. For example, chocolate.