
Great numbers of people solely depend on what their surroundings offer. Indigenous peoples are generalists who survive by gathering plants, fishing, and trapping and hunting animals. In the most northerly areas where little or nothing grows, the Inuits and the Sami people are totally dependent on animals and fish, both for food and for making clothes and tools. In Central Asia, South America and areas of Africa, where little more than grass and other hardy plants grow, people are dependent on their plant-eating animals. In some areas of the world there are only fish to live on.
Then you have the modern phenomenon of vegetarianism, consisting of some people who are no better than intolerant missionaries who morally punish by casting religious guilt on people and their lifestyles, with an intolerance and ignorance that qualifies as racism towards indigenous peoples all over the planet. And those indigenous peoples live in a covenant with Mother Nature as man has done since the beginning – unlike modern righteous veggies. And it is these “people of nature” who show what humans’ natural diet is, not our teeth.
How animals are kept, transported and slaughtered is a separate and serious discussion, but it should not be confused with what man is eating.
A Johnsen
Hua Hin