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Re: history questions: meat, siberian land bridge, horses in th
johnel@ix.netcom.com
Sun, 15 Dec 96 22:15:48 GMT
On 12/14/96 11:24AM, in message <58ukbp$1mg@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>, E Douglas
Kihn <vivacuba@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> In <32B25A9B.785C@uwyo.edu> Rich Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> writes:
> >
> >Tuohy wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>For those coming in late, this does not refer to poor peasantry, but
> >>>to some (IM-not-at-all-HO) mythical time before we learned to throw
> >>>rocks. I have never heard anything that would indicate that any
> >>>creature that could be called Human was strictly vegatarian.
> >>
> >>Before we learned to hunt we were.Sure this was a long time ago,and
> we
> >>all ran around naked,and this is before fire.But it happened.
> >
> >"Before we learned to hunt"? How much is needed to accomplish that?
> >even chimps have learned to hunt.
> >
> >Nor does your scenario address scavenging and finds of opportunity.
> >I sincerely doubt early humans would pass up a free meal.
> >
> >> [...]
> >
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> Another argument against humans as herbivors: We are not designed to
> graze on grass, leaves and bark all day. We have stomach acid, the
> ONLY purpose of which is to process animal protein. If you are
> designed to do something, you had better do it or you won't run right.
> If you have stomach acid, you had better eat meat (like our chimp
> cousins) or you be become weak, cold, and pale like Colleen.
>
> Dr. Doug
While living in Meeteetsee, Wyoming (everyone knows where THAT is, right?) and
after having been a vegetarian for two years, I worked on a ranch feeding 60
lb. bales of hay to the cattle, after stacking 30 or 40 bales on the ranchers
pickup, sometimes in 40-below-zero weather. Yeehah! No lack of protein there!!
(Must have been all those soybeans...)
;]
John
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