Humans Took 1000 Years To Tame Wild Plants

ABC.Net ^ | 4-13-2004 | Anna Salleh

[Ichneumon]

There's also a lot of fascinating information about the origins of agriculture (as well as the origins of writing, animal domestication, shipbuilding, nationstates, etc.) in the great book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies", by Jared Diamond. I received this book for Christmas and hugely enjoyed it. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and I can certainly understand why. It's more informative (and a hell of a lot more interesting) than most college courses.

[Ichneumon]

and I can pretty much prove that if you will give your dog one pound of 70/30 hamburger plus two raw eggs per day, you will produce a healthy, strong animal, compared to the IAMS diet stuff. At about 1/2 the price. Many folks think dog 'food' is an improvement, ignoring canine dietary evolution.

A few months ago we switched our dogs from standard bags of dry dog food to a diet formulated by a local breeder/kennel. From their recipe, we mix up a daily batch consisting of boiled ground chicken, shredded carrots, active yogurt, protein powder (mostly fish meal), powdered shark cartilage, sunflower oil, Grape Nuts(tm), hard boiled eggs, a couple scoops of high-quality kibble, and enough beef or chicken broth to make it suitably moist.

The dogs go nuts over it, it's cheaper than premium kibble, and just in the six weeks or so they've been on it, their coats are very noticeably more smooth, soft, and shiny.

The German Shepherds at the breeder, which have been fed this diet all their lives, are so sleek and shiny that they practically glow in the dark, and are very muscular and *huge*, like Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the dog world.

[blam]

"It's thought that papyrus is only 5000 years old, about the time of Moses and we know by then much of the area was arid. The moderate climate in the ME was 5000 years before that."

The oldest paper ever found was discovered in the Tarim Basin, with the Caucasian mummies in China. I don't remember how old it was/is but, it had the extinct Indo-European language 'Tocharian' written on it.

[CobaltBlue]

I've got that one on my bedside table, but it's so dense and chewy that I read it in little dribs and drabs. I've never had a good enough memory to just breeze through books like that.

[colorado tanker]

Try the History of Salt. The Romans brewed a fish sauce that sounds like the equal of anything brewed in Asia in potency. The book never really explains why the practice died out in Europe and the Med during the Middle Ages.

[dirtboy]

I've read that it means your dog doesn't have enough protein in his diet.

My dog gets a serving of boiled chicken each day, in addition to her dry food. She'll eat cat sh** (or horse sh** if she gets the chance).

Dogs will just be dogs.

[Shryke]

My friend, here is the winner:

http://www.midwaysailor.com/lonardo/barbeque.html

Ballut. Buried, fertilized duck egg that is only eaten after it turns rotten. Care to explain how ANYONE ON EARTH could possibly try THAT? AAAAAAAUUUUGGGGH.

[colorado tanker]

Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh!

[Lysander]

...Maybe they were very, very hungry. LOL!

The hungriest person ever had to be the first one to try raw oysters!

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