Written by PETA
Those of us who enjoy the benefits of a green, healthy, and humane vegan diet may be tempted to think of people who still eat meat as dinosaurs, but besides being rude to our fellow man (after all, most of us used to eat meat), we may be slandering real dinosaurs by clinging to such attitudes.
Researchers at Chicago's Field Museum have theorized that many theropods—members of a family of dinosaurs that included legendary predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptors—were vegetarians. This comes on the heels of findings that contradict the previously held notion that large carnivorous dinosaurs roamed Australia during the Cretaceous Period.
Not only is this fascinating, it also has practical uses—if your dino-loving kids balk at eating salads, just tell them it's the dinosaur way to dine!
Written by Jeff Mackey
Well, dwalker, I suppose that's what the linked article was for...
Had you opted to use said resources to educate yourself, rather than fail to even comprehend what was written in the post (although stated in the way that marketers often do to mislead people), you would have learned that vegetarian theropods did not include T. Rex, Velociraptor, or other similarly-toothed predators.
In fact, it was the theropods that had peg or other-shaped teeth who were theorized to be omni- or herbivorous.
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