On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:16:52 -0500, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:29:53 -0500, William <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Consider this scenario: cereal grain eating was a dirty trick foisted on
>> people by evil would-be tyrants.
>> One idea for why people stopped eating paleo.
>
   Clearly, it would take
> a major
> depletion of available food to get the majority of people to change  
> their diet
> of the previous 2 million years.
>

Yes, but it doesn't seem to be climate change, as paleo hunter gatherers  
were both mobile and resourceful.
Cultural pollution might do it (I've been reading excerpts from the  
Talmud), as we've always been a gabby bunch, but as always, there is no  
record.

William