Paul Saladino· MD
I see animal foods as the optimal human foods and plants are survival food
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I see animal foods as the optimal human foods and plants are survival food
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but for the majority the time we would go hunting animals and this is the idea of facultative carne every which is a big hat tipped Ambro Hearne I don't know if she's here but the idea that humans are probably only searching for plants when they can't get animals we are facultative carnivores
if you had access to the best food all the time would you eat plants and I think the answer is no
plants may be like survival food
and I've kind of argued that plants were probably mostly survival food throughout our evolution if we could get meat and I mean I yeah if we could get me that was what we were gonna get if we could get animals that's we were gonna get
so there's a clear hierarchy here in so many lines of evidence suggesting that large animals land animals were preference and then maybe fish were a go-between and then plants are the least preferential food as as i've said in the past plants or survival food for humans they're not optimal food
for me at least in my schema the paradigm that i begin to construct is like i do see a hierarchy of foods arise and i think okay why are people eating beans um and if they could hunt animals would they eat beans i wonder you know that the hadza this is just one example but the hazard don't really go looking for leaves and seeds unless they don't have meat