> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:09:50 -0500, Robert Kesterson
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Maybe all of that vegetation wasn't/isn't edible by humans, but
> grasses
> in particular were not a very common thing before modern agriculture. If
> we
> did eat wild animals, it would have been mainly insects, eggs, things like
> that.

I already answered the other points you made.  And I have to remind you
that the fossil record is very clear on the fact that humans and their
hominid predecessors ate a *lot* of meat.  You've been asked to provide
evidence to the contrary, but you haven't done so yet.  But you have added
another falsehood, namely this claim that grasses were uncommon before
agriculture.

On the contrary, the African savanna, the very place where our evolution
took place, was dominated by grasslands--somewhat cooler than those same
locations today.  Grass was the dominant vegetation in that environment,
so the food chain consisted of the animals that eat grasses (ruminants,
mostly), and animals that eat the grass-eaters.  The latter group included
us.

A good summary of the argument and evidence can be found here:
http://askesisphilosophyandcarnivorism.blogspot.com/2009/05/article-iii-human-evolution.html

Todd Moody