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It also gave us sleep apnea. Agriculture was without a doubt the worst thing to ever happen to us.
by justinko 2y ago
It also gave us sleep apnea.
Agriculture was without a doubt the worst thing to ever happen to us.
- Zenbit_UX 2y agoNa, the worst thing to ever happen to us was hyperbole.
- theultdev 2y agoNothing stopping you from reversing the trend and start hunting if your sleep apnea is so bad.
- marssaxman 2y agoNothing but the fact that agriculturally-based civilization has already claimed the land, cleared the forests, farmed the grasslands, and killed off the wild animals, so you'd spend your time starving to death and hiding from game wardens: but at least you'd get better sleep, maybe.
- tlb 2y agoThere are lots of places you can still hunt (or trap) and gather. The actual problem most people would face is (a) they're not very good at it and (b) it's extremely tedious.
- marssaxman 2y agoYou can still hunt and trap a little, sure, but I took the previous commenter to be suggesting that one could trade agricultural civilization for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and I can't see how a person could get enough calories to survive that way without egregiously violating bag limits. Maybe up in Alaska or the Yukon you could still get away with it, but here in Washington, a little quick math suggests that hunting all the deer and game birds you're allowed in a year would only keep you fed for 6-8 weeks.
- theultdev 2y agoFishing is also an option to supplement.
- marssaxman 2y agoI don't know much about fishing, but the Fish & Wildlife website mentions daily rather than seasonal limits, so perhaps you could make it through a year that way - but hunting would be the supplement, as you'd have to live primarily on fish!
- carlosjobim 2y agoIf you read old books, there's a fact that becomes very clear: The land was abundant with wildlife before industrialized agriculture. Of course there's more wild land than cultured land still today, but the best and most fertile land has been taken for agriculture.
- tayo42 2y agoDon't you still have the freedom to eat like a pre agriculture human now? Just buy some meat and nuts? What exactly is different?