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Meat or Beans - Which came first?


Rodney and I were talking the other day about the historical beginnings of our food sources as human beings. When did we first start eating meat? What about alternative protein sources like beans? Which came first and should we really be eating meat based on our paleolithic ancestors and what they ate? Well, I stumbled across "What Was Our First Protein Source?" - a great discussion of this exact topic - and right or not, I'm happy, personally, that their conclusion is to EAT MEAT! Don't know what I'd do without it!

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Andy,

It is a little known fact that the wooly mammoth and buffalo are actually very large, hairy, mobile, and sometimes aggressive beans (or legumes). It wasn't until the height of the hippycene era, about 35 years ago, that plants were discovered to be "high in protein," thanks to advancements in 'appeal to emotion' research.

In seriousness, however, the Paleo Diet website provides this research (http://www.thepaleodiet.com/articles/2006_Oxford.pdf) which supports the conclusion that 56% to 65% of hunter gatherer dietary energy was animal based. Even chimpanzees, our genetically nearest living ancestor, during the dry season, have been observed to consume 65g/day of meat.

Ever see chimps hunt, dismember, and eat monkeys? Makes industrial meat production look tame.

Posted by Ben C  on  02/19   at  12:35 PM

Gotta love two parties shooting from the hip with outdated, misleading, minunderstood, and (by far the worst) purposefully misconstrued arguments. To top the whole thing off, neither group has come close to proving the central (ableit implicit) thesis that our anscetor's diet is the most "healthy". How about some objective criterion before we get all scientifical.

Posted by Noah Zaitlen  on  02/19   at  01:08 PM

I am a member of PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals!

All i know is that I dig eating meat, but chimps and the like (hell, even my 30# dog) are strong as hell and they don't eat meat. Wonder what that's about? Probably a steroid/growth hormone difference (except with A-Rod who is strong like bull).

Posted by Ben Roble  on  02/19   at  02:27 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-465987/The-stone-age-whale-hunters-kill-bare-hands.html

Check out these mean meat eaters!

Posted by mtanwyck  on  02/19   at  03:34 PM

Who needs science when you have tastebuds? Meat is better.

Posted by Ben Roble  on  02/19   at  04:01 PM

OK, this is totally beside the point, but there was an article this week about pet chimp in New York that attacked a woman and ate her face. I mention it in case anyone is disputing that chimps are omniverous.

Posted by Kevin Daly  on  02/19   at  04:30 PM

Great pic Ben and Jeremy!

Noah Zaitlen, objective criterion = elite performance.

MEAT!

Posted by Zeb Pascual  on  02/19   at  06:43 PM


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