It must have felt unnatural at first, eating animal meat. In this respect we are located not far from animals. Perhaps, the first time it even felt like cannibalism. It could not have been that much intellectual distinction between humans and animals. If people were pure vegetarians, they lived life in partnership with the planet with them in harmony with the Earth and the other creatures. Their closest animal relatives, monkeys, were vegetarian. The products of the Earth food, the natural order of things would have seemed like plants, cereals and fruit, which they collected and could eat.
But necessity is the mother of invention. Prehistoric men lived in frozen regions or, those who lived in an area that was ravaged by fire, would have to eat anything to survive or not eaten. Just as when their plane crashed in the mountains of Chile, football players were forced to eat the meat of other players who died earlier. Each man in the crash at that specific time had the choice for survival, and those who could, like those who consumed meat for the first time and changing the history of humanity - and health - have changed forever.
We can imagine that when men first ate meat, it was animals that were caught and that had been charred or boiled in a natural forest fire. You can have imagined them eating raw meat if necessary, but also, that even the earliest digestive systems rebelled against eating raw meat.
Just imagine that eating fruits and vegetables for eons, and all of a sudden, having meat products in your system. You may have heard friends, vegetarians tell stories of eating meat and always being violently ill.
Biologists will tell you we are really not designed to eat meat, but we adapted to it. However, it is in the timeline of the history of mankind, that to eat meat is a relatively recent evolutionary development.
But necessity is the mother of invention. Prehistoric men lived in frozen regions or, those who lived in an area that was ravaged by fire, would have to eat anything to survive or not eaten. Just as when their plane crashed in the mountains of Chile, football players were forced to eat the meat of other players who died earlier. Each man in the crash at that specific time had the choice for survival, and those who could, like those who consumed meat for the first time and changing the history of humanity - and health - have changed forever.
We can imagine that when men first ate meat, it was animals that were caught and that had been charred or boiled in a natural forest fire. You can have imagined them eating raw meat if necessary, but also, that even the earliest digestive systems rebelled against eating raw meat.
Just imagine that eating fruits and vegetables for eons, and all of a sudden, having meat products in your system. You may have heard friends, vegetarians tell stories of eating meat and always being violently ill.
Biologists will tell you we are really not designed to eat meat, but we adapted to it. However, it is in the timeline of the history of mankind, that to eat meat is a relatively recent evolutionary development.
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