Tim Allen がリツイート
Here is a thought experiment.
You are dropped in a field in Britain. No shops. No roads. No supply chains from Peru or California or Thailand. Just the land, the rain, and whatever grows here.
Your options:
The cattle grazing the field. The sheep on the hillside. The eggs in the hedgerow. The fish in the river. The game in the wood.
Or: you can wait until summer, cultivate a patch of ground, grow some vegetables and grain, hope the weather cooperates, hope the pests don't cooperate, and try to process enough stored carbohydrate to survive a British winter.
One of these strategies has kept humans alive in this climate for forty thousand years. They did it without refrigeration, without supplements, without fortified oat milk, and without any apparatus except a fire and a knife.
The other strategy failed sufficiently often that famine was a routine feature of British life until the nineteenth century.
We are not in a field. We have the luxury of importing quinoa and pea protein and synthetic B12. That luxury is real and I'm not pretending otherwise.
But when someone tells me that the food keeping those people alive for forty thousand years is a modern health crisis, I want them to explain which part of the timeline they think went wrong.
Was it the Mesolithic? The Bronze Age? The Celts with their bog butter and their height advantage over the Roman legions?
When exactly did beef become the problem?
Point to the century.
Take your time.
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