Our Ancestors WEREN'T All Hunters! || Acharya Prashant

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00:00It is a myth that our ancient forefathers were all carnivores.

00:04When man was in the jungle, he was primarily a herbivore.

00:09And this is borne out by scientific analysis of the fossils being dug out

00:15and many other kinds of equally rigorous scientific evidences.

00:20It is obvious that for the inhabitant of the jungle, the hunter-gatherer,

00:25it is far easier to pluck a fruit than to chase and catch an animal.

00:29And then kill it and then eat it.

00:31The argument that man has always been a meat-eater needs to be studied and refuted.

00:37It was obviously a highly unscientific belief.

00:41But it got popularized.