Posted on 01/06/2016 12:01:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Part of my New Year’s diet is a banana in the morning. Satisfying and burned through easily. Healthy too.
These days I take such statements with a heavy dose of salt.
In my youth the scientist were sure that Chimpanzees were vegetarian. Later observations of chimps in the wild revealed that they not only ate meat but occasionally practiced cannibalism and tribal wars.
I have come to believe that scientist unknowingly project their idealism on to the subjects of their studies.
Of course with extinct subjects it is much harder to be proven wrong.
Kwame Kilpatrick has escaped???
LOL-
Too bad for the environmentalists this ape has disappeared. It would be fun to see them go out and try to hug one a la Goodall.
“I have come to believe that scientist unknowingly project their idealism on to the subjects of their studies. “
In Arizona there’s a couple of indian dwellings built on top of high bluffs, the access to which was a foot path no wider than your shoe. They had to carry every stick of firewood and cup of water up that treacherous path. The top could have been defended by an elderly lady with a stick. At the entrance to the area the Park Service had put up a bronze plaque reading something like, -The natives obviously built on these high plateaus for the spectacular views they afforded.- We howled with laughter.
Geez, huge sucker. Why couldn’t it be possible that an offshoot has survived and that’s what we’re calling Sassquatch or Bigfoot?
Depends what tools are used to support the theory. Isotope analysis is a pretty good one.
forget bigfoot - we call it Michelle
Importantly, not too long ago, a scientist discovered that the assumption that eating raw and cooked food delivered the same amount of calories was very wrong.
In fact, raw food delivers calories so poorly that for a person to live on a “gorilla diet”, they would have to eat almost continually during every waking hour. Plus they would have perpetual diarrhea.
Following this up, he found research about those on various raw food diets and found that almost all of them suffer from some variety of malnutrition.
He also compared the effects of cooking with those of “mechanical action”, such as chopping or grinding. But the latter only produced marginal improvements in nutrition.
So cooking our food seems to have been a major breakthrough in human development.
An entire species known from a mandible and some teeth. Yeah, that is reliable.
So Bigfoot is a Vegan? I don’t think so.
Raw vegetables are dramatically low in calories and we probably only absorb about 50 calories a pound from raw vegetables. Our caloric needs cannot be met on a raw food diet without consuming large amounts of fruits, avocado, nuts and seeds.
They’ve done isotope analysis on Bigfoot?
I wouldn’t write that in stone, yet. This is a study from, apparently, a graduate student of an anthropology professor (written in Discover Magazine, which is hardly a hotbed of accurate science). In addition, this study (I just glanced through the article), seemed hopelessly superficial — didn’t account for prior conditions, mixed too many types of foods together (meat, grains, etc) to be scientifically useful, no mention of how control groups were implemented (if any were used).
The raw food fad is primitivistic, idiotic, narcissistic and anti-human.
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