I got the same advice from the English Pastor Dad of my English roommate.well the door to door Mormons just left my door after telling me to continue to read the Torah. That was nice advice. Dude was 81
This is patently wrong. Humans and their ancestors have been eating plant material as early as 4 million years ago. They started eating meat 170,000 years ago. The 12,000 year time frame you mention is the advent of agriculture. As you state, humans were Hunter gatherers long before they produced their own food. Gatherers refers to fruit and plant collecting.Just 4% of human's history includes eating anything plant related, and that started at most 12,000 years ago.
Put into Perspective
To visualize this, imagine the entire 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens compressed into a 24-hour day:
Our bodies have done effectively no evolving since starting to eat plants.
- Humans live as hunter-gatherers for 23 hours and 2.4 seconds.
- The Agricultural Revolution begins at 11:02 PM.
- The entire Industrial Revolution and the modern digital age occur in the last 6 seconds before midnight.
Hmmm
sure, when they were starving or they came upon berries they would eat them, but we didn't start planting food to eat as a replacement to meat until just 12,000 years agoThis is patently wrong. Humans and their ancestors have been eating plant material as early as 4 million years ago. They started eating meat 170,000 years ago. The 12,000 year time frame you mention is the advent of agriculture. As you state, humans were Hunter gatherers long before they produced their own food. Gatherers refers to fruit and plant collecting.