Why did you drink them before, if you appear to fundamentally object to the idea?

I can't imagine anyone actually saying this with a straight face (also I am totally using this line for everything now). What a way to view oneself!

As someone who lifted for a good handful of years, there are a few reasons i used protein powder, it was a very affordable way to add 25-50g of protein and some random fruits or peanut butter or whatever(i'd usually blend up a shake).

It was also a good way as someone who struggles to eat a surplus, to hit my goals as it just went down way easier than an additional full meal.

It is ALSO easier to cut weight and maintain protein goals by utilizing simply water and protein powder.

when it came time for me to cut, im simply swapping milk for water, and removing the peanut butter, and suddenly that "meal" is ~400 calories less.

So the very simple answer? convenience/affordability.

Bears are a terrible example to pick, as they aren't real “predators” in the first place. They are omnivorous, eating more fruits, roots and insects than meat, by far. Depending on their species and where they live they may eat fishes as well, but not that much meat at all.

And of course as omnivorous ourselves, we eat far less meat than actual predators like wolves and felines.

Lions challenge the dominant male, and if they win, they kill all of their offspring and take all of their females.

Hopefully you are not doing that with every male you encounter that happens to be physically weaker than you.

As in they can't catch them? Or they can't survive on a diet of them? I'd be surprised if it was the latter.