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Even today, with all our advanced technologies, more than 90 percent of the calories that feed humanity come from the handful of plants that our ancestors domesticated between 9500 and 3500 BC – wheat, rice, maize (called ‘corn’ in the US), potatoes, millet and barley. No noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last 2,000 years. If

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

When I tell them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, it’s not that they actually object. They’re just so focused on getting more and more protein into their diets that they don’t have room for plant-based foods.

Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the

Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

In order to resolve this controversy and understand our sexuality, society and politics, we need to learn something about the living conditions of our ancestors, to examine how Sapiens lived between the Cognitive Revolution of 70,000 years ago, and the start of the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

As for meat, let me say it upfront: Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat. Unlike other predators, we lack enzymes that convert degraded “D” proteins into live “L” proteins. All life forms on this planet are made from “L” proteins. Nonetheless, upon the death of an organism,“L” proteins convert spontaneously into “D” proteins. This process, k

Ori Hofmekler • The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

We have done a lot of consumer research that basically tells us something incredibly important for this whole story: which is that meat lovers love their meat. They're not going to be persuaded to eliminate it from their diet, or even reduce consumption. They are going to keep eating it. They like it because it's delicious, they like it because the... See more

The Verge • Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat

Farming, after all, replaces natural ecosystems with human-made ecosystems that are engineered to yield far more foodstuffs per unit area. The plant and animal species not cultivated on farms are the sure losers, as humanity encroaches on the habitats of other species that are not directly conducive to food production or that compete directly with

Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions

The large societies found in some other species, such as ants and bees, are stable and resilient because most of the information needed to sustain them is encoded in the genome.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

As mentioned, the typical plebeian diet was based on grains. To avoid protein deficiencies, they mixed grains with legumes. Beans were considered “the poor man’s meat.“They were also the gladiator’s main source of protein, and beans were served to Roman soldiers in times of short supply of meat, cheese, or fish. The bean was a strong symbol. It con