Krusty wrote:

> > wrote
>
>>Roughly ten thousand years, sure.
>
>
> I've always read that we were vegetarians for roughly MOST of our existence
> on earth prior to evolving larger brains.

Read where? Vegetarian websites? Because I've read repeatedly that the
hunter-gatherer diet generally consisted of roughly 45-65% of calories
from animal food, with the rest coming from vegetables, fruit in season,
nuts and seeds, and the like.

>
> The only reason we evolved larger brains that allowed tool building and
> communications was that suddenly, not so very far back, we started to eat
> meats. Proteins.
>
> So I'm inclined to believe that most of our time on earth was in fact,
> eating vegetables and grains.

How did people eat grain in any quantity before agriculture? A real
bitch to collect all those little seeds.

Dana