RE: [100% veg*n ] carrots and peas with your dinosaur, love?

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when early hominids ate meat, i think some of it is " romanticized " ofrave man

running off with spear, when, in actuality, we would have been

scavengers...mmm-mmmm..old carcass!

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demo <jallan wrote:

 

>>early man ate a lot of non meat products, but, when scientists did up the

>>remians, wot do they find, bones, stone tools..how well is a wicker

>>collecting basket going to survive?

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>the interesting issue to look regarding meat consumption in ancient times

>is the energy reseources it would have taken, i.e. how much energy does

>it take to runaround hunting and trapping versus energy that the games

>returns to the individuals.

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>hunting is hugely energy inefficient, i.e a whole bunch of guys sitting

>around tryng to work out how, then running around chasing things and then

>beating them up and transporting them back to base for the calorific

>return of a single beef burger.

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>that energy must have come from somewhere else, i.e. women and children

>picking vegetables, fruits and grasses in a hugely energy efficient way.

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>what we need is a energy conservationist revision of pre-history.

>studyies of traditional tribes alive to day underline this. the eating of

>meat was a costly expensive luxury sustained by the mainly vegatable

>based diet.

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>john

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