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David Gornoski
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The Relationship Between Plant Food Consumption and Animal Feeds
In extant hunter-gatherers, there's a very clear linear relationship with plant food consumption from and latitude. As you get down towards the equator where plant food is maximally available, you basically bottom out for animal food consumption at 37% of calories. But in any of the ethnographic literature, you don't find hunter-gatherer groups that had strong beliefs that if they eat starches, they will have health issues. And so, I don't see how you can argue from that that plants are only eaten when there's no animal foods available.
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