From: John Cartmell 
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y uk.education.misc uk.education.schools-it uk.finance uk.food+drink.misc uk.food+drink.real-ale
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons to go veggie
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:06:29 +0100

In article <4n5olfF8qiehU1@individual.net>, Andy Pandy
 wrote:

> "John Cartmell"  wrote in message
> news:4e67e6433ejohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...
> > > > > If you're basing the natural homo sapien diet on evidence from 3-5
> > > > > million years ago then your argument has a seriuos flaw!
> > > >
> > > > i thought I'd made it clear that I'd included the response to the
> > > > agricultural revolution some 10,000 years ago.
> >
> > > The response of what species?? You quoted evidence from 3-5 million
> > > years ago - that is meaningless when discussing homo sapiens' diet. You
> > > may as well discuss neanderthals' diet - they were much closer
> > > relatives to homo sapiens than any species around 3-5 million years
> > > ago. And the neanderthals ate more meat than the average human does
> > > today!
> >
> > I was taking about the diet of H. sapiens and presumed ancestors since
> > the common ancestor with Chimpanzees and Bonobos as they are our nearest
> > living relatives. As far as I know the diet of Hs Neanderthal is not know
> > anything like as well as you suggest.

> Sorry, could I have that again in English please?

Which bit?
NB for 'know' read 'known'. Sorry. The rest is in English: honest! ;-)

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