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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
> 1. primarily vegetable diet
> 2. >100 different varieties of plants
> 3. Most considered weeds now.
> c) modern hunter-gatherer tribes, 58 studied,
> including !Kung
> 1. 60-80% of diet from plant foods
> 2. hunting -> 100 food calories/hour
> 3. gathering -> 240 food calories/hour
> ....citation end
There is nothing to disagree about here. I thought we were
discussing vegetarians. A person who gets even as little as 20%
of food from animals is no vegetarian. And that person will in
all likelihood be getting considerably more protein than the
.37g/kg that you have mentioned.
The above figures support the point that a HG diet will make
*considerable* (i.e., non-trivial) use of meat, as well as
vegetables. The point is that a reconstructed paleo diet will
also make considerable use of meat. It should not be a
vegetarian diet. Perhaps a case could be made that a pre-hominid
diet would be largely vegetarian.
> > I believe that, among these cult
> ures, there are
> >*no* vegetarians: they all eat at least a little meat, and some live
> >almost entirely on animal foods.
> Yes, no vegetarians, but many with a overwhelmingly
> part of plant food.
It depends on what you consider overwhelming. The numbers quoted
above suggest an average of 30% animal foods. Although there are
some on this list who opt for a nearly all-meat diet, I think
you'll find many others, such as Mike Audette, who are much
closer to this average figure.
Todd Moody
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