On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:10:14 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>> 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.
>

It's thought that were not very prominent before agriculture, they're a modern 
thing. They're not prominent in a natural jungle and it's thought that elsewhere 
they just expanded because of civilisation, fields for livestock are an obvious 
example, but they're why grass seems to grow everywhere. 

>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
>

I suggest you read Man The Hunted and similar books which completely 
overturn the idea of man hunting for meat, and stop getting your information 
from people suffering from metabolic syndrome off the internet and off of 
blogs. 

Wild men are savages, savages hunt for meat... tribes hunt for meat... clearly 
paleo man hunted for meat, right? He went out hunting for game, the 
excitement of the chase, it all sounds so good it must be true right? WRONG! 
Paleo man, like the chimps, might eat small animals, eggs, insects, even fish. 
However the fossil record does NOT "clearly" show he captured and ate meat. 
Your best argument by far is that we scavenged on meat.