I'm a docent at our local zoo, The Living Desert. Visitors easily understand how animals have native diets and how predator moms don't raise their offspring to hunt, thereby making their offspring "non-releasable" in the wild.
What no one realizes is that 1) homo sapiens also have a native diet, and 2) Americans are non-releasable in our supermarkets. Here's why. Just as captive moms fail to teach their offspring, so too with our culture. Thousands of years of food wisdom has disappeared. We not only lost the ability to hunt, we can't teach our offspring about food so long as the conversation is dominated by big industry. And even if we know what to shop for, our supermarkets fail to address the needs of a homo sapien diet.
In the food industry, we call textured soy protein a meat "analog," which is basically counterfeit meat. Our food supply is largely a food analog, that is, a counterfeit of the real nutrition that our bodies need. For example, meat isn't really meat; if it were, men would expend thousands of calories hunting for lean, grass and berry-fed venison with no antibiotics, no growth hormones, and no bio-accumulation of feed chemicals.
I can't change anyone's self-destructive behavior, all I ask is that when you feel smugly superior to hunter-gatherers, remember this: they are releasable, you are not.
What no one realizes is that 1) homo sapiens also have a native diet, and 2) Americans are non-releasable in our supermarkets. Here's why. Just as captive moms fail to teach their offspring, so too with our culture. Thousands of years of food wisdom has disappeared. We not only lost the ability to hunt, we can't teach our offspring about food so long as the conversation is dominated by big industry. And even if we know what to shop for, our supermarkets fail to address the needs of a homo sapien diet.
In the food industry, we call textured soy protein a meat "analog," which is basically counterfeit meat. Our food supply is largely a food analog, that is, a counterfeit of the real nutrition that our bodies need. For example, meat isn't really meat; if it were, men would expend thousands of calories hunting for lean, grass and berry-fed venison with no antibiotics, no growth hormones, and no bio-accumulation of feed chemicals.
I can't change anyone's self-destructive behavior, all I ask is that when you feel smugly superior to hunter-gatherers, remember this: they are releasable, you are not.
