...The Monacan Indians were pretty typical of the people living here in North America before the Europeans came. Indians’ diets were overwhelmingly plant-based, as in the case of the Monacans, according to this docent, 98 percent... meat and fish accounted for less than two percent of their food. Virtually all their nutritional needs – 96 percent – came from Corn; acorns, together with nuts, berries, roots, seeds, leaves, shoots, and other plant foods that they gathered...This emphasis on “hunter” for earlier humans is chosen by the mainly male meat-eating anthropologists whose views are unconsciously filtered by their own culturally-imposed meat-eating behavior...
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:14:48 +0000
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