Thinking more about what the C's actually said (should have done this before my previous post):
So the information is 'assimilated' by carnivores beforehand, reducing that available to humans afterwards. So actually the whole concept is something more in line with the order of nature, or ecosystem food chains, even though it is a concept we are less familiar with.
Omnivores might require the proteins and their informational component in addition to some other elements in plants. There is a difference though - humans are not 'obligate' omnivores in the way that cats, for example, are 'obligate carnivores'. It just doesn't seem to be optimal for them to only eat meat, though that seems to be preferable to them only eating plants.
Again it must be more complex that we can understand, it seems like there are different levels to nutrition on an energetic level. Some molecules and components are essential due to their chemistry, ie. their shape and charge interactions, and some are operating on the level of pure information for overall optimum functioning.
A: In some instances, nothing. But in general one does not eat one's own kind for energetic reasons. Carnivores do not eat other carnivores because it is not optimal energy source.
Q: (L) In other words, we get optimal energy from eating creatures that eat vegetables. That way, we get our vegetables. But another carnivore processes all of that so that what we would get from eating another carnivore would not be optimal nutrition?
A: Yes.
So the information is 'assimilated' by carnivores beforehand, reducing that available to humans afterwards. So actually the whole concept is something more in line with the order of nature, or ecosystem food chains, even though it is a concept we are less familiar with.
Omnivores might require the proteins and their informational component in addition to some other elements in plants. There is a difference though - humans are not 'obligate' omnivores in the way that cats, for example, are 'obligate carnivores'. It just doesn't seem to be optimal for them to only eat meat, though that seems to be preferable to them only eating plants.
Again it must be more complex that we can understand, it seems like there are different levels to nutrition on an energetic level. Some molecules and components are essential due to their chemistry, ie. their shape and charge interactions, and some are operating on the level of pure information for overall optimum functioning.