Plants are Trying to Kill You
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The fruit is a supplement to the main course, which is meat. Imagine, if you will, cavemen. They would hunt and gather. The gathering part is there to stretch the meat supply, not replace it.
Also, it is sensible to harvest a tree of pre-historic apples, but not to harvest grass seeds (grain) that needs to be then fermented to be made made edible.
No, that is not correct.
Early cavemen did not have fruit to "gather" back in the early days. The fruits you see in the grocery store today DID NOT EXIST AT ALL back then.
They have been selectively bred over several thousand years to be the sweet, tasty things they are today. Back then, they would have been hard to find and not particularly of interest.
Sure, if they were on a hunt and they knew for sure that some berry would not kill them (many would), they might eat a few. But it was certainly not a significant part of their diet.
The "hunter/gatherer" thing is a myth. They were hunters. Full stop.
Yes, I nearly wrote that, the 'apples' that cavemen would have come across would be small and sour, like rosehips.
Oh, I lost my sweet tooth a long time ago. As have my kids. Crabapples are marvelous, especially because nobody bothers to harvest them (Our council was so kind as to plant a whole row of them along the street, and when they fruit, it is a sight to behold - they are that prolific). All the flavor of Cox's Orange Pippins, and no sickly sweetness.
"Eats shoots, and leaves."
nope. Why bother?
It was a semantic joke. Hah.
The joke is that I do think prehistoric man "ate shoots" and also tubers. And probably some leaves. And some fruits and nuts (in season). But all of these were nothing compared to the amount of meat they ate.
These days we can do very well on nothing but meat.
Got it, thanks. And yes, I have had less bugs, healthier hair, stronger nails, glowing skin and NO hives or arthritis since making the switch. I lost about twenty pounds in the first three months as well!