>What happens when humans try to take down wild animals?
The hunting technologies developed by humans are well-documented and the
more "primitive" of them are hard-hitting and quite awesome. What happens
is they more often kill than are killed, and subsequently share the animal
food among their kin. There is often mention of the hunters consuming the
liver (talk about RAF!) on the spot, which I think might be a bit selfish,
but they have a spiritual thing going I suspect ;)
Consider the flipside of your argument: If we plopped you down in Borneo
and let you compete with the native orangutans (not to mention the few
tigers still rumoured to exist) for ripe fruit in the canopy, how would you
fare? Without any technology (brought with you or constructed in vivo, so
to speak), you'd likely starve, would be my guess--if the
infections/inflammations which might ravage your naked body (from abrasions
in combinations with your high sugar intake).
>The three of us make all of our own "kills" every day when we pluck an
>orange, avocado, peach, or melon from our gardens. Is this not "true"
>instinctive eating?
There is no such thing as "true" instinctive eating since our modern world
is not the world in which our instinct was honed. And further, even in
prehistory there was only instinctive "experience" not the "true"
application of some instincto theory. But excluding eggs, insects, flesh
and organs meat, and marrow from fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and
mammals, not to mention bivalves, univalves, etc. from the human diet
because of an IDEA is not the least instinctive. Given the central role
such foods have played in human evolution; the correlation of brain size
and animal food consumption in primates, and many sea mammals; the positive
health experiences of RAF-consuming instinctos; the clear-taste changes of
RAF; the positive health experiences of RAF-consuming "vegans" (raw dairy
mostly); recent research on the role of nutrients in RAF; the probability
that you are likely to have dental problems (at the very least) down the
line; and your comfort level at 45-68 degrees F on a 95% fruit diet (how
your fingers feeling fellas?)--given all these things, no, I don't buy the
simplistic contention that humans are naturally vegans.
OK, guys, I've answered your queries in good faith, and even gave you a
good baboon story to boot :) How about taking the next step and answering
any of the many questions asked of you by myself and others on veg-raw.
_Dialogue_ is a two-way street. While I still don't enjoy responding to a
three person entity (it will be interesting to see if one of you breaks
rank and is willing to sign your name to an idea), I do look forward to
some more "polite posts", esp. if they respond to some of the questions
asked of you in previous posts (or the vice-ridden ideas in my posts here).
Cheers,
Kirt
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