From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 15:24:18 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
>>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
>>
>
>>Uh, how do you explain that the large and relatively primitive
>>populuations have been and are largely vegetarian? I don't
>>understand why people feel the need to take occassional pokes at
>>folks who don't eat meat. You can live just fine off of nothing
>>but a good vegetable garden and a bit of flax-seed oil now and
>>then for B-12. Not exactly hard to do out in the woods.
>>
>
> I think you misunderstood me.
>
> Actually most societies were largely omnivores, they ate mostly
> vegetables and grains because meat was hard to come by. Native
> Americans and Aleut/Inuit lived primarily on meat. Vegetarianism is
> a fairly modern phenomenon and an urban one at that. Leonardo Da
> Vinci converted to vegetarianism but not veganism, but he was an
> urban dweller, he wasn't pioneering in Montana.
Indian and other far east societies that were lacto-vegetarian
(but no eggs) vastly predated the American western frontier
expansion and lived that way at all levels of
urban/rural/primitive environment.
> That's all I meant, no disrespect intended.
>
Understood. Thanks for the clarification.
- samantha
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