Talk:Food and beverage/@comment-67.177.155.78-20130206031506/@comment-3261515-20130306122948

Humans' resource-intensive brains result in a much greater nutritional requirement than other animals of our size. Considering that ponies seem biologically more like humans than real-world equines, it's likely that they'd need a more protein-rich diet to maintain themselves.

Further, the previous commenter made note of the fact that "they themselves are animals". Has it been forgotten that humans are animals, too? We're not robots, we're flesh just like any other living creature. That doesn't seem to pose any moral issue for us. In MLP, the only difference is that the animals of Equestria seem less animalistic than our own, and have better communication with the ponies; some ponies may abstain from frequent meat consumption due to a closer bond with the animals, but it's not very likely that vegetarianism is a trait inherent to their species.