Martin's lack of knowledge of mammalian dentition seems to have led him to a common error -- the idea that carnivores have "tougher" teeth because they eat meat. The reverse is the case. An herbivore needs far stronger teeth and jaws than most carnivores -- plant food is far rougher, tougher to chew and chop up, and contains indigestible matter like silica (grass) and cellulose (all plants).
Very little change in tooth structure is needed for most herbivores to eat meat -- rats have herbivorous teeth in essence no different from a beaver's, and they eat meat just fine. Of course, morocanth teeth are piglike (i.e., omnivorous with emphasis on vegetable matter), though they're more omnivorous than a typical pig.
Morocanth don't need to wait for their food to rot (though they might do so anyway, to enhance flavor; I'm sure the Praxian _humans_ adhere to this practice). They don't need it cut into bite-sized chunks -- their bulky herbivore-sized bodies are well-able to digest meat (if you can digest plants, you can digest just about _anything_). Their big problem lies in hunting down meat, not in eating it. And they're not so hot at the hunting trade. Hence their reliance on small game -- the kind of things that can be snared or trapped, or flushed out by their herd men.
Sandy
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #652
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