Author: Piling » Sat May 09, 2015 7:38 am
At first hominides ate more vegetables than meat but a dryness in Africa pushed the first Homo (not our specy) to live in savanas and ate more meat.
So that's more the contrary : from a 3/4 vegetarian diet to a meat eater diet. Then Neolithic Revolution changed it and we became more dairy/cerals eaters. except some nomad/shepherd groups who did not cultivate, and ate more dairy than meat.
In places where vegetables and fruits are inexistant, populations ate only meat and fat : Inuits, for example. In places where big pieces of meat were rare or hard to access, people ate many vegetables, fruits, but also eggs, insects, etc.
The only valuable evolution is the one which allows to a group to survive in a specific place. Humans spred all over the planet because of their ability to change their own diet in a spectacular way.
Before, when someone was intolerant to milk, gluten, or had any critical allergy, death happened quickly, often during childhood.
Today, many people can live with such diseases and give the impression of an epidemy (gluten, lactose, glucose intolerance, etc). The point is that our food might be not very healthy but our medicine keeps us alive until an older age.
And medicine progress happened thanks to meat eaters, because our brain developps in a such huge proportion when we begin to eat meat and cooked meal. So even veggies have to be grateful toward butchers
