On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:18:52 -0700, jeremy bornstein <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Without agriculture, the development of civilization would have been very
>different--possibly we would still not have attained any technological
>societies to speak of.  I think that the development of agriculture was a
>good thing even if it kills some people "prematurely ...

And thanks to our technological society, we now have refrigeration
and refrigerized transportation, which means that I can now eat my
meat-based paleodiet. I am grateful :-)

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com