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Phosphor wrote:
>> *He* didn't. Don't you understand what research is? He consulted the
>> work of anthropologists who have done field studies
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>one thing you've missed in all this..why don't you take as a serious
>testimony the words of someone who really should know..the aboriginal
guide
>who wrote the book from which i made the original reference [ie that
plant
>foods are relatively useless]? perhaps testimony of a black man don't
>count...
Are you making an accusation or just trying to goad me? You never
claimed that your source claimed that "plant foods are relatively
useless." You wrote, "he stressed that plant foods were always the
second option - in terms of supplying calories, not in terms of vitamins
etc - when hunting was poor." You did not cite your source. What you
wrote is entirely compatible with what Cordain found in his research.
If plant foods are 23% of the aboriginal diet, that would indeed make
them a second option. You also wrote, "Women of course dig for yams,
but there is a
lot of effort involved in digging them up and preparing them. in terms
of
caloric density animals are infinitely more worthwhile." Well, the
adverb "infinitely" is your exaggeration, of course. Perhaps you meant
to imply that the women were wasting their time but were too stupid to
realize it, being women and black. What? You don't like having such
offensive interpretations placed on your words? Pity.
And what is the reason for this pissing contest? I had the gall to
write that plant foods are an important part of hunter-gatherer diets,
even the diet of the aborigines. I didn't say they were the
*preferred* part of all hunter-gatherer diets, because I know better.
But even at 23% of energy, I'd say they qualify as important. Since,
as you point out, it is work to harvest them, nobody would bother with
them otherwise. And maybe the hunting is poor just often enough to
make plant foods worth gathering about 23% of the time, eh?
Todd Moody
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