Grains are not special because they started being cultivated more intensively 12,000 years ago. They were eaten long before that [1] and intensive cultivation a

Grains are not special because they started being cultivated more intensively 12,000 years ago. They were eaten long before that [1] and intensive cultivation also applied to veggies [2] and fruits [3] on roughly the same historical time frame. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohalo_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohalo_II [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_founder_crops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_founder_crops [3] http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch39.html http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch39.html