Tom said:
Depends entirely on the size of the population, as you have
pointed out in the past. Once the neolithic revolution began,
there was no way that human population could ever be
balanced out against prey species. Even occassional hunting
would decimate them. That is why rulers would declare
hunting a royal prerogative, and create vast hunting preserves.


A very sage observation, I am afraid. Isn't overpopulation and unsustainable
economic pressures(going forward a couple of generations to who knows how
many BILLION world population) a major part of the equation??  How do we
reconcile our Paleolithic preferences with Neolithic reality;  is it a
matter of let us eat "correctly" and hope that the "masses" buy up the bad
food ?? Sorry about the morose query.