Posted on 05/21/2015 9:16:27 AM PDT by PROCON
Meat despite popular movements to decrease the amount humans consume is still a central part of diets around the world. People who live in industrial countries (like the United States) eat roughly 210 pounds of it each year.
And consumption in the developing world, where people eat closer to 66 pounds each year, is climbing fast. Growth is such that by 2030 the average human is expected to consume just under 100 pounds per year, 10 percent more than today.
Our collective affinity for meat likely began out of circumstance humans that lived inland from the coast had little choice but to hunt in order to live and has persisted for evolutionary reasons. Meat carries nutrients like zinc and protein, promotes growth, and provides energy. It also doesn't hurt that the price of meat has fallen dramatically.
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I think you’re a little bit confused.
The Egyptian civilization in a flood plain up to 800 air miles from the coast, at least via the Nile. The Two Lands in Egypt were upper and lower Egypt. Upper Egypt was the river’s narrow floodplain, Lower Egypt was the delta.
Mesopotamian civilization developed in areas up to 600+ air miles from the sea.
The first Chinese civilization was centered over 400 miles from the coast.
All of those are still relatively coastal, in that the most fertile parts of the land were near the coast, and the area of arable land dwindled the further inland you went. That’s dictated by pretty basic principles of geography. The further down the river, the wider the flood plains tend to be, and the more nutrients will be deposited, as the rivers slow down as they get wider, and a slower current can carry less sediment, so more gets deposited on the banks. Saying there were still some narrow arable areas hundreds of miles inland does nothing to detract from the fact that most of the arable land from those civilizations was actually near the coasts.
Seriously, just go look at the satellite maps of any of those areas. The arable lands are still visible to this day following that pattern, and it holds true for most of the river systems on the planet.
I grant you Sumer and possibly Egypt. Though Upper Egypt totals about half the arable land of the Delta, and I suspect the swamps of the Delta were harder to bring into cultivation than the intermittently flooded lands of the Valley.
However, civilization in China definitely began some hundreds of miles inland and didn’t spread towards the coast for many centuries.
Will you know when your chicken was processed in China?
Not if Republicrat Statists can help it.
For sure - how can we honor the non-life of a laboratory culture when we nourish our bodies on it?
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