(ELI5) Why do animals that live in the same environment and eat the same diet taste different? (For example sheep and cows)
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I read a story about an evangelical trying to start a conversation with a person on the street and he is asked that since goats, sheep, and cows all eat the same grass why are their droppings so different. The evangelical admits that he has no idea and the passerby says “You admit to not knowing shit so what more is there to say?”
But, I was thinking, they don’t all eat the same grass. Goats aren’t grazers, they are browsers. They eat from shrubs and such. As for the differences between cows and sheep look at their wild cousins. Buffalo, not bison, live in the lowlands well water is easily available. They can afford to excrete wet sloppy shit. Sheep live on the hillside away from water and they need to conserve water by squeezing their shits dry.
As reguards the flavor of their flesh. If I recall what I read years ago properly, a goat stores uriatic acid in its flesh do its best to soak it in milk before cooking it. Perhaps it’s also a way of conserving water. So, there are lots of things that effect flavor.
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