The human species is the only one that consumes food that is cooked, cut with nothing but its own teeth, mixed and cooked. You will never see a lion stirring in a pan or a camel cutting lettuce with a knife. The way to have such a satisfying, varied and abundant food made mankind have a long and relatively healthy life. Man has gone from an average age of 25-30 years in Antiquity to 70 years now, unlike the koala, for example, which eats nothing but eucalyptus leaves all its life and lives only 18 years, that’s if it finds enough eucalyptus to reach that age. Man found other sources of food when the mammoths disappeared. It seems that only humans are capable of what is called “evolution”, and that involves intelligence and adaptation.
The discovery of fire was a turning point in human history. Besides the fact that they could warm themselves around it in cold weather, they saw that a piece of roast meat was tastier and easier to eat than a raw one. And from there to stews, drob, bread and scones, the road was long, but steady. Diet and taste for food have changed and continue to change. That’s a good thing, nothing ever stood still for long. The human body adapts. There are also less good things that happen. In order to feed a constantly growing population, a food industry has emerged, which sometimes values profit more than the quality of the food offered. Our duty is to inform ourselves and choose our food as correctly as possible in relation to our own body. Let us not be seduced by addictive taste, laziness, fashion, deceptive advertising or conformity. Let’s make our own decisions after getting information from different sources. You should see me wrangle some recipe found on the net. “Sure, boil the buckwheat for 30 minutes. You probably found that there are some vitamins left in it and you want to kill those too.” Or “soak that buckwheat for 2 hours. You’ll be amazed how much you’ll save gas, vitamins and my nerves”. Information and own decisions.
