Got one Wallaby last night - we just couldn't get close it was bright moonlight. I did get startlingly close to a little brown quail - I could have picked her up with my hand. The neighborhood male pheasants (one to the left shelter bed, one to the right) are safe for now - they've both acquired harems, and will hopefully breed. Spring is definitely coming as birds are collecting Puggles shedding hair for nests. Barbs still seems to be having fun with her dancing, and I am pleased to say my excitement for the day is that my carrot seeds and beets are coming up.
I read a curious statement somewhere recently from a vegan who was holding forth that meat was no part of our natural diet, because humans could never catch or eat cows etc, before we had tools and fire. I have to wonder at how people conceive animal protein to always be 'cow'. I suspect our remote ancestors ate plenty of 'animal protein', raw, just the way chimps do, and we sometimes do. Of course no one thinks of things like bird eggs, baby birds, mice, hedgehogs, snakes, lizards, worms, insects, grubs (larval insects) shellfish, octopus, crustacea (crayfish, crabs and prawns), echinoderms, ascidians (cunjevoi here, redbait back in the old country) fish... all of which I have caught by hand, with no tools at all, many of which I have eaten as is, and all of which I could. Add a few simple tools like a rock and a sharp stick and the list gets bigger, make traps with these and it gets bigger, and add working together in a group, and the list gets huge, of quite big vertebrates too. Humans have probably done all of that since we were all monkeys. Some of us like me just haven't evolved much. To be a vegan, on the other hand, and stay healthy, probably takes a fair bit of knowledge, and to be blunt tools and cooking equipment, and transportation. It's a lifestyle choice, and you're welcome to it, but you can't really claim it is the natural state.
Eyup. Vegans tend to ignore the fact that without certain proteins, almost impossible to find in their "natural state" they claim is the human "real" one, we would not develop the brain power we have acquired.
ReplyDeleteSadly, they love to enforce this on their kids, and I've seen many of them fall back behind other kids of their age in the mental skills dept. Yes, there are a few plants that have similar proteins, but they are not the same. They also are not native to the areas we evolved from initially, and were among the group we have been modifying through selective methods for eons. Early man didn't have the same veggies. Like Chimps, we are omnivores (I've had some vegans who thought they were not meat eaters at all...heh) and we operate best when we live that way.
Yeah JP, I think it's very much more to do with the fats - intelligence wise. People have very wrong ideas about chimps. They have wars.
DeleteYeah, bones cracked for the marrow are quite common in sites where humans developed. Lots of good stuff there for fats and whatnot.
DeleteMy former supervisor was shocked to learn Chimps would plan attacks on rivals and commit murder, prostitution (sex for food really) make simple tools etc.
Folks seem to forget even when they learned it once upon a time, that a full grown chimp can remove your arms just by pulling. One went nuts a while back (he was on Zanax) and was eating a lady's face. The PETA folk were mad the cops subdued it by shooting the beast. Even standing over the bleeding victim, all they see is Bonzo of Ronald Reagan fame or Bear from the 70's tv show BJ and the Bear.
I'd have to look it up but I seem to recall a dig in a cave in South Africa where the lowest level was littered with shells....no tools. It is the access to the sea and the protein therein that some believe pushed the next evolutionary step. IOW: the protein allowed those with more inherent intelligence to be more productive and thus get the girl/guy with similar traits.
ReplyDeleteIt's also - besides that 1)fats are high energy food. 2)A buck fed a lot of people well, often at times when you might have starved foraging.
DeleteHere: http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/fats.html
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ReplyDeleteAs long as you've got a handy cliff to chase them over, even large game can be hunted without advanced weapons like a pointy stick.
ReplyDeleteVery true!
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