10 Reasons to go veggie 864

But what was it like? The climate changed dramatically over time and much of Africa was desert or the Sahara was full of animals that needed water - pick your date and get the climate of your choice - Importantly what was it like on the beaches of the freshwater lakes of East Africa over the last 5 million years and what was it like on the coastal beaches of the horn of Africa, Red Sea, Arabia and India over the last 80,000 years? Because that's where we became what we are.

We *know* that fruit and vegetables were plentiful in the diet to the extent that they were never missing from the diet (evidence from vitamin requirements). We can guess that fish-shellfish were likely items in the diet (evidence from piles of shells). We know that small mammals were sometimes included in the diet of some of those people (evidence from bones included with those shells - but only in a very small number of cases).

Any other claims need justification - and much in the past has been based on pure speculation. Man as a savanna animal is one for which there is no evidence whatsoever even though it has been repeated time and again and is still the most used icon for early man in textbooks. That sort of 'hunter gatherer' has no foundation - though there is evidence for such at a much later date (eg Neolithic and in recent times).

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