The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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predatory hunters. They argue that the views of “man the hunter” and
of our ancestors as “bloodthirsty brutes” are based on three things: “perverted
Western views of modern humans, the Christian concept of original
sin, and ... just plain sloppy science” (ellipses in original). 6
We must question our culture’s underlying assumptions, and understand
how these assumptions perpetuate themselves. No one knows
exactly why we humans began killing and eating animals. According to
Plutarch, writing nearly two thousand years ago,
The primitive people who first ate meat likely did so out of extreme
privation. People in those days were reduced to eating mud, bark,
grass sprouts, and roots. Finding acorns and buckeyes would have
been cause for celebration. If these people could only speak to us
today they would undoubtedly tell us how fortunate we are to have
such an abundance of delicious vegetable foods at our finger-tips;
and how fortunate that we can fill our stomachs without polluting
ourselves with flesh. They would be perplexed by the lust that leads
people to eat meat in these times of plenty. They would ask, “Don’t
you think the good earth can sustain you? Aren’t you ashamed to
mix the wholesome produce of the earth with blood and flesh?” 7
Today there are masses of conflicting theories as to why we began
flesh-eating, and they are all, to some degree, warped by being products
of the herding culture itself. Many attribute it partially to our early
migrations out of the tropical and subtropical regions into the cooler
temperate regions where plant foods weren’t so easily available. Many
of the theories are skewed by the invisible assumptions of male
researchers who assume that men have always dominated women, hunted
large animals, and warred with each other. Even when these theories
are shown to be inaccurate, they tend to live on because they fit nicely
with the herding culture’s overall paradigm, and they serve the interests
of other writers who have similar erroneous theories.
A good example is Peter D’Adamo and his popular Eat Right for
Your Type books, which encourage eating animal foods based on blood
type. D’Adamo claims that type O people are best suited to eating ani-