We get sick if we eat spoilt food, but do birds get sick?

@nishdan01 (3051)
Singapore
February 11, 2010 10:07pm CST
We often throw spoilt food in the garbage bin and we see birds eating them. So my questions is, do they get sick if they eat them? What do you all think?
4 responses
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
12 Feb 10
I believe birds have a different system and different tastes that we humans do. After all, they feed their young worms. That thought would be something that would be appalling to most humans. So eating food out of the garbage might be something that birds can handle. In fact, I would not be surprised if the regular, unspoiled food that we eat as humans would be upsetting to them. That would be interesting if it did.
• Bulgaria
12 Feb 10
Maybe they just don't eat spoiled food. They can eat from the garbage but maybe they eat only food that is not spoiled.
@mylosha (286)
• India
12 Feb 10
For concerning this the birds adopt such a life way that we do not we in them our body constructed and operated by some set of biological reaction and mechanisms they are responsible to keep us continue and response to the different situation as concerned your doubt merely our body adopt such a digestive pattern that birds do not and vice versa it is not only about food for all other biological process. now you try yourself that you can start to eat some bad rotten food and enjoy it for some time you will be defenetly adopted that pattern try it.
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
12 Feb 10
Birds have very different digestive systems. They can eat a lot of stuff that we can't.