Quote: (11-04-2018 08:25 PM)Not a Second Hander Wrote:
@rudebwoy,
word on the street is that you're a very fit jacked guy in his late 40s. How do you maintain such a physique without much meat. What does your diet look like?
@kosko
thank you for that post. I laugh at modern western urban dwellers fetishizing hunting with paintings of jacked, bearded men hunting mammoths on their Twitter feeds.
The fact is that until the advent of firearms, most "hunting" actually involved setting up traps. Not as sexy. Meat has always been supplemental in the human diet and like you said, I'd like to see how many of these strict carnivore badasses will fare if they had to wake up every morning trying to take down an animal that is likely bigger, stronger, faster, more aggressive and has a better sense of smell & hearing.
As for diets, no one knows anything. Only diet I adhere to is avoidance of processed food and seed oils.
Disagree, that might have been true in some areas, but in many others, there was an inexhaustible source of animal protein: salmon runs, fishing, giant herds of herbivores like the American buffalo of the great herds in Africa. The main problem there wasn't the supply of meat, it was the neighboring tribes that coveted territories rich in game and fisheries. Seafood was inexhaustible because there was little in terms of high seas fishing. When the Portuguese first sailed the Atlantic, they discovered giant cod colonies that were the size of large cities.
The age of the hunter-gatherer ended in areas where civilization sprung and grew, like the Mideast, Europe and China, but this development is very recent on the human evolutionary scale. In places like France, hunting game became the exclusive privilege of the noble landowner by the middle ages, while the serfs and urban dwellers ate animals raised by farmers with varying frequency depending on their wealth and land productivity.
This thread highlights the problem with the modern American diet. Essentially, we are now in the second generation of women working en masse. The culinary arts and domestic know how have been denigrated, women have been brainwashed into believing that their self-worth depends on their career, so many of them barely have any cooking skills and have been stripped on their ancestral culinary heritage.
That's why you get all these fad diets that change radically every 5 years. If you go to France, Italy, Spain or Greece you will find that most people have very good diets that are also quite healthy, and extremely delicious, and well-balanced, with for instance plenty of fiber (no need to take fiber supplements). Food culture is a central part of the culture, it is less affected by market forces and social engineering, unlike in America and the 5 eyes countries.
