Food chain logic or nah?
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:59 am
Okay so the title is a bit... shit if I had to be honest but I wasn't sure what other way I could word my question lol. But hopefully it was clear enough (?).
Sooo here's the thing. When it comes to vore, the logic of the natural food chain is a big thing for a lot of people, and something they 100% follow through when it comes to their fantasies. Others don't really give it much thought and just do whatever they please.
What does this mean? For example, the natural order of things in real life dictates that carnivores eat hervibores, as it's obvious. However, while in vore a lot of people follow this logic, others portray hervibore creatures as preds even if it doesn't ''make sense'' per se. Of course I am not saying that this is wrong in any way because... let's face it, vore is a fictional fetish as is, and hervibore preds are not the most '''nonsensical''' thing you can see in it. I don't mind if people like 'em at all.
In my case, I tend to follow the logic of the food chain strictly, aka, I'm not really a fan of hervibore preds. However, as I do more research on animals' dietary habits, I've realized that certain species of hervibore animals may eat meat during desperate situations, such as not finding a source of edible vegetation. For examples, deers have been seen eating dead animals during harsh winters due to the reason I already explained. There are also hervibore animals who eat their offspring when they detect they've been born with an illness or defect or... just because. So I've kind of grown to tolerate the portrayal of certain hervibore animal preds due to this.
This is where omnivore animals come in and make me feel a little bit confused (?).
Pigs, boars, mice, rats, badgers, squirrels, bears, etc. are proven to be omnivorous. Excluding the bear and maybe badger though, most of the animals I've listed are mostly portrayed as prey in vore and most fictional media today. Mice and rats are a classic example, being preyed on by cats, snakes and such. In fact, as stupid as it sounds, I always saw mice and rats eating exclusively seeds, berries/fruit and the ocassional bug, but apparently they'll eat almost anything. Pigs are more ''clearly'' omnivore yet they're also mostly portrayed as prey.
One of the reasons I'm discussing omnivores is because lately I've caught myself looking up Raichu vore (one of my favourite generation 1 Pokémon) and feeling a bit weird about it due to my usual preferences until I learnt a lot of rodents are omnivores.
I'd like to add that I also really don't see humans eating apex predators such as lions, wolves or such, but I can see/draw them eating hervibores or, you know, things humans usually eat (and also humans eating other humans). Not even my human/animal hybrids would dare eat someone of their own species, though I gotta say I'm kind of neutral on everything (minus hervibores doing it) when it comes to a member of a species eating another of their own.
So here's the conclusion to this thread... How do you see vore yourself? If you include animals in your vore, regardless of them being anthro or feral, do you follow the logic of what the food chain dictates in real life? Are you more neutral on it and take certain liberties? Or do you say 'fuck all' and do a complete 180 (hervibores eating carnivores for example) or make everyone eat each other regardless of species and dietary status?
I'd love to hear your thoughts! It's always interesting to hear how other people view the food chain in vore. And I gotta say a lot of what I do in vore heavily depends on the context and all, and also the sexual or non-sexual nature of the scenario, but this would be about it-
Sooo here's the thing. When it comes to vore, the logic of the natural food chain is a big thing for a lot of people, and something they 100% follow through when it comes to their fantasies. Others don't really give it much thought and just do whatever they please.
What does this mean? For example, the natural order of things in real life dictates that carnivores eat hervibores, as it's obvious. However, while in vore a lot of people follow this logic, others portray hervibore creatures as preds even if it doesn't ''make sense'' per se. Of course I am not saying that this is wrong in any way because... let's face it, vore is a fictional fetish as is, and hervibore preds are not the most '''nonsensical''' thing you can see in it. I don't mind if people like 'em at all.
In my case, I tend to follow the logic of the food chain strictly, aka, I'm not really a fan of hervibore preds. However, as I do more research on animals' dietary habits, I've realized that certain species of hervibore animals may eat meat during desperate situations, such as not finding a source of edible vegetation. For examples, deers have been seen eating dead animals during harsh winters due to the reason I already explained. There are also hervibore animals who eat their offspring when they detect they've been born with an illness or defect or... just because. So I've kind of grown to tolerate the portrayal of certain hervibore animal preds due to this.
This is where omnivore animals come in and make me feel a little bit confused (?).
Pigs, boars, mice, rats, badgers, squirrels, bears, etc. are proven to be omnivorous. Excluding the bear and maybe badger though, most of the animals I've listed are mostly portrayed as prey in vore and most fictional media today. Mice and rats are a classic example, being preyed on by cats, snakes and such. In fact, as stupid as it sounds, I always saw mice and rats eating exclusively seeds, berries/fruit and the ocassional bug, but apparently they'll eat almost anything. Pigs are more ''clearly'' omnivore yet they're also mostly portrayed as prey.
One of the reasons I'm discussing omnivores is because lately I've caught myself looking up Raichu vore (one of my favourite generation 1 Pokémon) and feeling a bit weird about it due to my usual preferences until I learnt a lot of rodents are omnivores.
I'd like to add that I also really don't see humans eating apex predators such as lions, wolves or such, but I can see/draw them eating hervibores or, you know, things humans usually eat (and also humans eating other humans). Not even my human/animal hybrids would dare eat someone of their own species, though I gotta say I'm kind of neutral on everything (minus hervibores doing it) when it comes to a member of a species eating another of their own.
So here's the conclusion to this thread... How do you see vore yourself? If you include animals in your vore, regardless of them being anthro or feral, do you follow the logic of what the food chain dictates in real life? Are you more neutral on it and take certain liberties? Or do you say 'fuck all' and do a complete 180 (hervibores eating carnivores for example) or make everyone eat each other regardless of species and dietary status?
I'd love to hear your thoughts! It's always interesting to hear how other people view the food chain in vore. And I gotta say a lot of what I do in vore heavily depends on the context and all, and also the sexual or non-sexual nature of the scenario, but this would be about it-