In Real Life, vegetation isn't exactly the best source of food. It's hard to digest, is low in some essential nutrients, and requires a specialized digestive system in order to properly process it into anything useful for the animal eating said vegetation. Because of this, most carnivorous animals are not well-adapted to eating plant materials (unlike herbivores, naturally). A subtrope of Carnivore Confusion and Artistic Licence Biology. Contrast Ascended to Carnivorism for when a normally herbivorous animal decides to eat meat. Examples of Vegetarian Carnivore include:
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| - In Real Life, vegetation isn't exactly the best source of food. It's hard to digest, is low in some essential nutrients, and requires a specialized digestive system in order to properly process it into anything useful for the animal eating said vegetation. Because of this, most carnivorous animals are not well-adapted to eating plant materials (unlike herbivores, naturally). A subtrope of Carnivore Confusion and Artistic Licence Biology. Contrast Ascended to Carnivorism for when a normally herbivorous animal decides to eat meat. Examples of Vegetarian Carnivore include:
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| - In Real Life, vegetation isn't exactly the best source of food. It's hard to digest, is low in some essential nutrients, and requires a specialized digestive system in order to properly process it into anything useful for the animal eating said vegetation. Because of this, most carnivorous animals are not well-adapted to eating plant materials (unlike herbivores, naturally). In the world of fiction, however, this isn't the case. A normally carnivorous character can easily switch to a strictly vegetarian diet whenever he/she wants without worrying about digestive problems. This usually occurs in shows with many Funny Animals as a means to address Carnivore Confusion by establishing a normally carnivorous animal as someone who prefers dining on a carrot to dining on a rabbit. It is often used for My Species Doth Protest Too Much characters to indicate that they have switched their diet to separate themselves from their more "predatory" associates. Or, though not as often, maybe they decide that hunting for food is too much work and decide to just switch to veggies. A subtrope of Carnivore Confusion and Artistic Licence Biology. Contrast Ascended to Carnivorism for when a normally herbivorous animal decides to eat meat. Note: This only applies to carnivorous, and sometimes omnivorous characters that switch to eating just fruits, vegetables and other plant-based foods (and the occasional fish and/or insect). Carnivorous characters that only switch from one type of meat to another are subversions. Examples of Vegetarian Carnivore include:
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