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Throughout human evolution, I believe that plants have been used by our ancestors as a "survival food" but not as a primary food source. There are myriad examples of this with clear preference for animal foods over plant foods from indigenous cultures around the globe.
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the Inuit preferred animal foods exclusively and they would shun plant foods and less animal foods were not available the idea that I think it's from that book they said we don't eat plants unless real food is not available and I'm doing air quotes real food and the real food is animals
we only eat plants when there's not real food available and they were saying or we only yeah if there's not animals available
some groups had a strong preference for animal foods
well but when they had the giraffe when they had the when they had the recently killed giraffe in front of them they just when when animal foods were available when they had a kill they favored the animal foods which is consistent with a pattern that we see in at least the writings of Villa Mar Steffensen looking at the inuit the mackenzie river inuit other populations in the north
and the reason I'm highlighting this is from the perspective of just sort of gently making the point that in many indigenous cultures when animal foods are available often foods are shun and there are quotes from Villa Mar Steffensen and fatted land and hunters of the great ride north that the Inuit would do the same thing and though it's a wide sweeping generalization and we can't extend it widely isn't that interesting that when they had a big kill of giraffe they just ate that and nothing else
but like when Weston Price described the Inuit his list of plant foods that they ate is actually longer than his list of animal foods not that he was saying that they were plants and animals
if animals are always available that that the indigenous cultures knew that that was the highest-quality food
the Inuit said the same thing that they only ate and I'm paraphrasing here they only ate quote-unquote plants when quote-unquote real food was not available
generally with indigenous peoples the more animal foods that are available the more they eat and and then it's just the their consumption of animal foods is only limited by their availability