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This comment is ignorant of a lot of things. > That's a very bold stroke, especially since most of human history is unwritten and not well understood. You don
by surfpel 4y ago
This comment is ignorant of a lot of things.
> That's a very bold stroke, especially since most of human history is unwritten and not well understood.
You don’t need written records to determine the broad strokes of early human diets. That’s an archeological problem for biological anthropologist who in fact have determined that meat entered the human diet around the time our brains grew substantially in size. There’s also cave paintings showing hunting of large animals by early humans.
The very fact that humans universally (barring medical exception) even have the capacity to digest meat is already indicative of this.
> whatever was locally available until the last 100 years
Agriculture was not invented 100 years ago. This is off by at least 2 orders of magnitude. Cows and goats were also domesticated over a very long period of time.
Perhaps by “locally available” you meant “locally available by means of farming and herding because humans lived near those”?
- z9znz 4y agoI never said that meat was not available for all of human history or that prehistoric humans did not consume meat. I'm talking about the (low quality) quantities available to almost anyone almost anywhere in the world for a relatively low price. And from looking at developing economies, it seems increased consumption of meat is an intentional sign of increasing wealth. As far as large scale domesticated animal production, that is a "relatively" new thing. Before modern transportation, there were many parts of the world where such meat was minimal or simply not available.