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I'm not sure what you're saying? The Paleo diet is a modern creation. The paleolithic diet was probably whatever people could eat. I would think if 10% of hum

I'm not sure what you're saying? The Paleo diet is a modern creation. The paleolithic diet was probably whatever people could eat. I would think if 10% of human diet consisted of human meat then prion diseases would have been more prevalent.

Ygg2 9y ago
Paleo diet as in prehistoric hunter gatherer diet. I didn't say 10% of diet. Up to 10% of protein. You don't eat only protein. Also some people have genes resistant to prion diseases https://youtu.be/SXjIzDexPoU https://youtu.be/SXjIzDexPoU
- jcranmer 9y ago
  > I didn't say 10% of diet. Up to 10% of protein. You don't eat only protein. You said, and I quote: > For record. Up to 10% Paleo diet was from humans. This is the world we would "return" to. That is a statement I would reject without seeing very strong evidence, and I don't know that we can have strong evidence of the sources of meat in Paleolithic diets on a holistic basis. Furthermore, cannibalism is one of the most widespread taboos among diverse cultures, and thus labeling your enemies as cannibals was a good way to delegitimize their claims independent of the veracity of those claims.
  - Ygg2 9y ago
    Well that's an error. Fixed. Comparable cannibalism rates have been observed in other mammals. Do you assume humans are exempt of it? If so why? Cannibalism makes a lot of sense, in hunter gatherer societies. After all one source of protein that is always present in human group is human. Did you see the video I linked? There are links in the description. Cannibalism is usually a taboo in modern western societies. Instance of ritualistic cannibalism mentioned in video was in 1960 in Oceania.
    - flukus 9y ago
      10% of protein intake sounds way to high, at that rate you'd quickly run out of humans. > Instance of ritualistic cannibalism mentioned in video was in 1960 in Oceania. If it were an every day part of our diet then it wouldn't be so ritualistic would it?
      - Ygg2 9y ago
        Up to. Ancient diets are extremely environment dependent and variable. One week a tribe could be 100% nuts and berries, only for next week to be 100% meat, because tribe stumbled upon migratory herd of animals. It's plausible some tribes didn't eat humans, while others ate humans after wars or on predefined occasion. Like e.g. when important person dies, or moon is full, or there isn't anything else to eat.

Ygg2 9y ago

Paleo diet as in prehistoric hunter gatherer diet. I didn't say 10% of diet. Up to 10% of protein. You don't eat only protein. Also some people have genes resistant to prion diseases https://youtu.be/SXjIzDexPoU https://youtu.be/SXjIzDexPoU

jcranmer 9y ago
> I didn't say 10% of diet. Up to 10% of protein. You don't eat only protein. You said, and I quote: > For record. Up to 10% Paleo diet was from humans. This is the world we would "return" to. That is a statement I would reject without seeing very strong evidence, and I don't know that we can have strong evidence of the sources of meat in Paleolithic diets on a holistic basis. Furthermore, cannibalism is one of the most widespread taboos among diverse cultures, and thus labeling your enemies as cannibals was a good way to delegitimize their claims independent of the veracity of those claims.
- Ygg2 9y ago
  Well that's an error. Fixed. Comparable cannibalism rates have been observed in other mammals. Do you assume humans are exempt of it? If so why? Cannibalism makes a lot of sense, in hunter gatherer societies. After all one source of protein that is always present in human group is human. Did you see the video I linked? There are links in the description. Cannibalism is usually a taboo in modern western societies. Instance of ritualistic cannibalism mentioned in video was in 1960 in Oceania.
  - flukus 9y ago
    10% of protein intake sounds way to high, at that rate you'd quickly run out of humans. > Instance of ritualistic cannibalism mentioned in video was in 1960 in Oceania. If it were an every day part of our diet then it wouldn't be so ritualistic would it?
    - Ygg2 9y ago
      Up to. Ancient diets are extremely environment dependent and variable. One week a tribe could be 100% nuts and berries, only for next week to be 100% meat, because tribe stumbled upon migratory herd of animals. It's plausible some tribes didn't eat humans, while others ate humans after wars or on predefined occasion. Like e.g. when important person dies, or moon is full, or there isn't anything else to eat.