Humans Were Never Supposed to Have Been Eating Meat.

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[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is an interesting question you raise, raven9, especially: how did man first begin eating meat? In the beginning, man only ate the fruit of trees, and the grains of the field, and drank milk from animals. (Milk has a protein profile similar to meat.) The first man did not eat meat. But it didn't take long for him to change his diet, since even in the first book of the Bible (Genesis chapter 27) we read that man ate goat meat and venison.

The sight of bread is appealing to me. I love bread. And yet bread is no where in the wild. It is something that requires cooking to make. Again, we could ask, how did man first begin eating bread? And how did the idea even occur to him to transform seeds into bread?

[–]raven9[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would imagine people who found they could eat things that were tough by breaking them down between rocks had been doing that to grass seeds. Doing that repeatedly over time would create the powdery residue substance that we call flour. Then if that got wet in the rain and solidified into cakes when it dried they might have realized that was a good thing to do... That would be one step away from cooking it and making a basic bread.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And how would you explain the use of leaven? Yeast is used to make bread rise, but how would man know how to cultivate yeast, waiting patiently for it to grow, before he could use it in bread, and again wait patiently for the dough to rise? Do you think that was another accident or even a mistake?