Interesting, huh?
But way before that happened, our ancestors would have been living from moment-to-moment, constantly foraging for food. They would have been primarily vegetarian, living on what was then the natural order of things.
It must have felt unnatural at first, eating animal flesh. After all, we’re not so far removed from animals ourselves. Perhaps it may have even felt cannibalistic (though they didn’t have such a word then!).
When humans were pure vegetarians, they were living in harmony with the earth and with the other creatures. Man’s closest animal relatives, the apes, were vegetarians and eating the products of the earth—plants, grains, and fruits—would have seemed more natural.
So you see?
Before we became meat-eaters, vegetarian eating was a more natural way of eating. Today, we know it’s healthier. And it’s a way of eating that’s in balance with the earth.
Pocahontas would approve. Do you think we were destined to include meat in our diets?