Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25924729-20150410075100/@comment-24891101-20150410082659

Not half-human/half-animal, merely human with bits on. Much more similar, genetically speaking, to the base human genome. Their physiology, therefore, is still quite human.

This suggests that their diets are mostly human in nature. While a ruminant Faunus might have some degree of ability to digest cellulose to a greater extent than a human, there is no room in their abdomen to contain the extra digestive tract necessary to properly consume grass in massive quantity. Similarly, their teeth are almst certainly human, which is necessary to process and reprocess grass, as ruminants do by chewing the cud.

Similarly, cat Faunus like Blake (or Tucson) would not be obligate carnivores, unable to consume plant matter properly. We do not see oversized canines, for instance. Nor is there evidence that they are unable to produce certain amino acids.

There may be preferences for certain foods, but no degree of over-specialized digestive physiology, certainly not in the case of the obligates. Humans are omnivores, after all. That would mostly override.

Faunus can be eaten. But this is trivially true. So can humans, after all. Again, with the minimal physiological and genetic differences, their musculature would be mostly similar to humans, and would therefore taste mostly like humans.