How did our family traditions become centred around eating meat? Think with regards to it. When we guess of Thanksgiving , we guess of turkey. If we devour pork , then New Year’s celebrations ofttimes turn around pork and sauerkraut. At Christian Easter , the traditionalistic meal is ham. And in the summer , we wait for that initial hamburger or steak on the grill.

How did that happen to a species that was designed to devour vegetables and fruits , nuts , berries and legumes?

We can guess that eating meat was initially an opportunistic event , born of the need to survive. The taste of cooked meat , plus the sustained potency that came from eating high-fat meat products made aboriginal sense horizontal to earliest man.

Initially , finding cooked animal meat , from a forest fire , would own been cause for celebration. It’s something everyone in a clan would own participated in eating together. When man sagacious to hunt and moved to a hunting orientation , rather than a hunter-gatherer orientation , he would own done this in groups. They would own had to hunt in teams , and killing an animal for food would own been a group venture. Hunting and killing an animal meant food not obviously for the individual , but for the clan , and would own been cause for celebration when the hunters brought the food home.

If they brought the animal back to the clan , it would own taken a group venture to hide the animal and rip or haggle the meat from the body. Everyone would own participated in this , and subsequently , shared in the rewards of their drudgery.

It’s easy to witness how , once we didn’t own to hunt for meat , but could buy it , the need for gathering and celebration was deeply ingrained in our natures. We observe the seasons and life’s events with family and friends , and because those aboriginal celebrations involved eating meat , that legend has continued to modern times.