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A human cannot live on just berries. Even if they could, where are those berries gonna come from?
by amanaplanacanal 2y ago
A human cannot live on just berries. Even if they could, where are those berries gonna come from?
- auggierose 2y agoI am pretty sure they can. Berries grow in bushes, often.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoBerries are missing essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, and essential vitamins. You could live on them for a while, I guess. Actually you can live without eating at all for a while. Both would lead to a painful death though.
- ben_w 2y ago"Where" is easy. I think more importantly is that uncooked food is harder to digest, so we need more of it. Most years I pick free blackberries growing wild in the city. Won't scale to all of us, not seasonal, and I'd need to eat 6kg of them a day for my RDA of calories, and 12x my RDA of dietary fibre sounds unwise, but that kind of thing is how we existed before farming. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6kg%20blackberries http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6kg%20blackberries
- Terr_ 2y ago> Even if they could, where are those berries gonna come from? By that logic, the "true cost" of boiling a cup of water for my tea somehow involves the Big Bang and rest of the formation of the observable universe up until now. It's kinda-true, but not in a useful way.