(ELI5) Why do animals that live in the same environment and eat the same diet taste different? (For example sheep and cows)
In: Biology
If you take apart the Astronaut Lego set to expand your Pirate Lego setup and your Knight Lego setup, all you have left are Pirate and Knight stuff. The individual blocks might have been used to make a space shuttle, but now they’re part of a pirate ship or draw bridge and you think of it as one thing.
It’s not like mixing chocolate powder into your milk to get chocolate milk. It’s not two flavors adding together. One thing is being taken completely apart to make more of the other.
Even though sheep and cows eat the same grass, when they eat it they break it apart and assemble it into more cow and more sheep. So when you eat the cow or sheep you’re not eating what they ate, but what they turned it into, which is more of themself.
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