eating in season--in the winter

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Just doing some thinking recently, and I know this is a vegan board,

and I am vegan, but only for health reasons, not because I don't like

meat, or wouldn't eat it, under optimal conditions.

 

I've been thinking that eating in season seems to make a lot of sense,

though I've never been much into natural hygiene. But in the winter..

assuming you live or are from a place that has cold winters, with snow

and little plant life, what would one eat? Like, naturally, in the

wild. The only plant life I can think of to eat would be roots, and

that could be extended, I suppose, to winter crops like squash and

such. Although that might be sufficient, it seems to me man would

probably do a little hunting. Game and fish seems appropriate to me.

The only problem, of course, is such meat as is available to us today

would not be the same as if we hunted and freshly killed something

ourselves. So what say all of you? Gabriel Cousens says never to eat

meat because it just putrifies so quickly, and I think the only way to

safely ingest meat these days would be to eat it freshly killed.

Anyway, so what should we eat in the winter? Squash and more squash?

Cousens says not to eat potatoes, either, for their mycotoxin load, if

they're stored. That limits roots/tubers to like.. carrots and squash.

Then there's kale, cabbage, beets, and apples. Slim pickings : /

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--- jem_3000 <jem_1000 wrote:

 

> Just doing some thinking recently, and I know this is a vegan board,

> and I am vegan, but only for health reasons, not because I don't like

> meat, or wouldn't eat it, under optimal conditions.

 

Then you're a strict vegetarain and not a vegan.

 

> I've been thinking that eating in season seems to make a lot of

> sense,

> though I've never been much into natural hygiene. But in the winter..

> assuming you live or are from a place that has cold winters, with

> snow

> and little plant life, what would one eat? Like, naturally, in the

> wild. The only plant life I can think of to eat would be roots, and

> that could be extended, I suppose, to winter crops like squash and

> such. Although that might be sufficient, it seems to me man would

> probably do a little hunting. Game and fish seems appropriate to me.

> The only problem, of course, is such meat as is available to us today

> would not be the same as if we hunted and freshly killed something

> ourselves. So what say all of you? Gabriel Cousens says never to eat

> meat because it just putrifies so quickly, and I think the only way

> to

> safely ingest meat these days would be to eat it freshly killed.

> Anyway, so what should we eat in the winter? Squash and more squash?

> Cousens says not to eat potatoes, either, for their mycotoxin load,

> if

> they're stored. That limits roots/tubers to like.. carrots and

> squash.

> Then there's kale, cabbage, beets, and apples. Slim pickings : /

 

What you are noticing about slim pickings in the winter and what would

we have eaten in the wild is something I have thought of as well. The

answer is that we would never have lived in these types of climate. we

would have lived in tropical places where food was plentiful. If we did

venture out of these areas, we would have been more on the nomadic side

and followed the food (as it good colder moved further south for the

winter). It wasn't possible to live in these inhospitable climates

until we learned to grow grains, preserve food, etc. Of course the cost

for this was a shortened life span and weakned health.

 

As for eating meat we would probably have eaten a diet similar to our

primate cousins which is mostly fruits and leaves but consists of 5 to

10% animal products (insects, scavenged animal flesh, hunted animal

flesh).

 

-Mike

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Mike said: <snip>The answer is that we would never have lived in these types

of climate. we

would have lived in tropical places where food was plentiful. If we did

venture out of these areas, we would have been more on the nomadic side

and followed the food (as it good colder moved further south for the

winter). It wasn't possible to live in these inhospitable climates

until we learned to grow grains, preserve food, etc. Of course the cost

for this was a shortened life span and weakened health.

 

As for eating meat we would probably have eaten a diet similar to our

primate cousins which is mostly fruits and leaves but consists of 5 to

10% animal products (insects, scavenged animal flesh, hunted animal

flesh).<snip>

 

I agree with this completely... Couldn't have said it better myself!!

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>>But in the winter..

> > assuming you live or are from a place that has cold winters, with

> > snow

> > and little plant life, what would one eat?

> -Mike

 

 

HI Mike...I do live in winter state...Michigan and I plant kale and

swiss chard in the summer and manage to still pick it, up to about Feb.

With the right amount of staw mulch there are still greens

available, those are some tough little plants. But living with winter

does make you think about what a person's natural diet should be...if

it was totally fruit based, people never would have survived beyond

warm climates.

mary

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Along the same lines, if you were to be dropped naked into the

wilderness without any tools to live out the rest of your life, where

would you want to be dropped?