Worst Mistake

I do not believe going from hunters to farming is the worst mistake. We have benefit greatly from it but there is all so the down side.

Farming has bettered our lives compared to the cavemen long ago it has also add other negative elements to our present day lives. The quality of the food now is less in nutritional value then in the cave days. Our tastes are more tuned to the likes of fat and sugar that is in most of our foods today. If a meal was prepared like the caveman ate I highly doubt most of us would be able to eat much of it.

Now days it has given us a more lax thinking on food. Most of us aren't worried where our next meal is coming from. We don't have to think "well if I head east two miles and then a little south I saw a heard of deer", no we simple walk a few feet to our kitchen and forage for a candy bar that was lost behind the raisin box. We also have the choice of the candy bar or an apple. Back in the cave days it was whatever was around it wasn't "make it your way". The Kalahari Bushman only have to work(hunt) 12 to 19 hours a week. They themselves said why farm when mongongo nuts are easy picking? They don’t have other tie downs that a normal society has. People work over 40 hours a week, dropping off and picking up children at school and childcare, cleaning, preparing the meals. Who knows there might be a few that would trade all that for the simple life of Kalahari Bushmen but most like their comforts.

Hunting and gathering took a lot of time and effort. If a person got hurt while on a hunting trip they would be plum out of luck in the gathering department for a while as well as their family. It was the survival of the fittest and if you weren’t able to hunt you didn’t survive.
By changing how we get our food it has let us develop other skills that also aided in our ability to better our society.

Again it comes down to free choice. The Kalahari Bushmen choose to eat only mongongo nuts I choose to eat Taco Bell. Will the live longer them me? Maybe