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From:	lowfatvegan (216.172.135.21)
Subject:	Re: What humans?
Date:	June 25, 2012 at 3:03 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: What humans? posted by gary on June 25, 2012 at 1:11 pm:

Not necessarily semantics. Fruitarians claim that we once lived on a
fruit-based diet. That's never been the case, for at least millions of
years.

Not that I'm against fruit-based diet. But the argument is weak.

Same for cooking. The human genus has been cooking for
considerably more than 20,000 years. Maybe even 200,000 years or
even longer. Doesn't that count for something?

When you say we've been eating "raw plants" for millions of years,
what kind of raw plants are you talking about? Doesn't that count for
something that those raw plants are not plants that modern humans
could live on? Isn't that interesting to note that no raw foodist living
today could live on the diet of chimpanzees in the wild?

We live on a fruit-based diet now because we can. We can do it
because of the way modern agriculture has modified plants over time
to make them sweeter and easier to eat. We can because we have
blenders and other apparatus to make it possible to consume
smoothies and raw soups.

And the diet can be healthy, no doubt.

But to claim that at any point in history we've eaten anything close to
that diet is a complete misunderstanding of science and a pure
fantasy — in the same way that paleo people are deluded into
thinking that humans once lived on a diet of grilled salmon, fruit
smoothies and salads.

The truth of our origins is infinitely more complex — much more
than the simplified Garden of Eden theory that Natural Hygiene has
concocted.

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