All over this city, plum and cherry blossoms are bursting out, perhaps prematurely. This is not really a particularly rich agricultural area, compared to the Saginaw Valley where I grew up, but what we have here in fruit trees and native plants is nevertheless quite impressive.
Meyer lemons. Native, big, succulent, sweet and sour, and full of flavor. Who could cook a meal around here without including these amazing fruits?
Nasturtiums, wild lettuces, anise, blackberries, wild onions (which natives called "Chicago"), bay leaves, and other edibles can easily be gathered here by those willing to venture out into our forests and mountains.
But these ingredients do not add up to any form of a sustainable diet unless you also are willing to harvest the fish, birds and mammals who share this environment with us. Personally, I would have no problem doing so, but most of my fellow San Franciscans would be appalled at this prospect.
In this regard, I know I am a throwback to the hunter and gatherer phase of our evolutionary past. It all seems quite natural to me. So I submit that those who are offended by these instincts are perhaps more evolved than I am, or maybe they are simply more clueless.
Either way, only our common future will deliver the answer.
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Evolution would allow natural selection to take care of herbivores...
or
Romans 14:2-3...analysis of the culture during the writing of that epistle indicates that pagans(heathens) would not eat meat because they sacrificed said meat to their gods'...
either way it's a bad idea to try and live on vegetables alone...
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