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the only human population that is provably subsisting on a meat diet are the Inuit and they like all other artic meat eaters,dont eat a lot of the meat,its the

the only human population that is provably subsisting on a meat diet are the Inuit and they like all other artic meat eaters,dont eat a lot of the meat,its the fat that is needed most,to the point that even when starving,a creature will not eat seal meat,if the hide and fat layer are gone as there is a higher energy penalty in eating frozen meat than can be recoverd. Meat was important,but all of the archiological evidence points to it bieng only a small portion of total diet,BUT,there was no replacement for hides,and the siniews used to sew them,especialy into foot wear its a rabbit hole I will resist disertating now

caeril 2y ago
Good point. If you move the goalposts such that the word "meat" is specifically defined as only lean skeletal muscle tissue with the fat trimmed away with surgical precision, you can win the argument. Sure, if you speak to actual carnivores, they will make it clear that fat, offal, sinews, marrow, etc are all critical parts of their diet, but if you just employ selective redefinition that has no bearing on actual reality, the argument stands strong in your own mental vacuum. I remember doing the same thing as a thirteen year old at local Lincoln-Douglas debate tournaments. Winning debates by stretching dictionaries is a solid move, even if it doesn't get you very far at the nonlocal level. It's always critically important that our Straw Men are constructed perfectly, to avoid pesky and annoying limitations of the real world.