00:00Even when man was in the jungle, he was primarily a herbivore.
00:04And this is borne out by scientific analysis of the fossils being dug out
00:09and many other kinds of equally rigorous scientific evidences.
00:14It is obvious that for the inhabitant of the jungle, the hunter-gatherer,
00:20it is far easier to pluck a fruit than to chase and catch an animal and then kill it and
00:25then eat it.
00:26The current splurge in meat eating is not more than 200 years old.
00:32It came along with industrialization and the popularization of thought
00:37that it is meat alone that can provide for protein, calcium or many other important nutrients to the body.
