Summary of Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction

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#1 We are born to eat wild. Our bodies have not changed much since the days when we lived as hunter-gatherers, but our way of life and diets have changed dramatically. Today, just a few people continue to source most of their calories from the wild.

#2 The foods we are about to meet are all important in understanding why wild foods are so important. They provide less than 1 percent of all the calories consumed today, but they account for a much higher proportion of nutrients.

#3 The Hadza are a tribe in Tanzania that still live as hunter-gatherers. They are the last people in Africa to practice no form of agriculture. The bird that helps them find the honey bees’ nests is called a honeyguide.

#4 The Hadza are a modern tribe that lives by foraging, and their diet is a great example of how humans evolved. They love honey, which is why they always listen for the honeyguide bird when collecting it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822530485

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Insights on Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We are born to eat wild. Our bodies have not changed much since the days when we lived as hunter-gatherers, but our way of life and diets have changed dramatically. Today, just a few people continue to source most of their calories from the wild.

#2

The foods we are about to meet are all important in understanding why wild foods are so important. They provide less than 1 percent of all the calories consumed today, but they account for a much higher proportion of nutrients.

#3

The Hadza are a tribe in Tanzania that still live as hunter-gatherers. They are the last people in Africa to practice no form of agriculture. The bird that helps them find the honey bees’ nests is called a honeyguide.

#4

The Hadza are a modern tribe that lives by foraging, and their diet is a great example of how humans evolved. They love honey, which is why they always listen for the honeyguide bird when collecting it.

#5

The diets of the few remaining hunter-gatherers, including the Hadza, demonstrate the importance of honey to human evolution. The Hadza find honey that comes from small, gnat-like bees that nest inside trees, and they collect it by chopping into the colonized section of tree.

#6

The Hadza are a tribe in Tanzania that have remained hunter-gatherers because it is a life that makes sense to them. They regard it as a wonderful life. When this way of life stops making sense to them, it comes to an end.

#7

The Hadza are an African tribe that still lives a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. But their land is being invaded by outsiders who want to farm it, and they don’t know what to do.

#8

The last hunter-gatherers in Africa are being pushed out by encroaching farmers and the effects of climate change.

#9

The first humans to arrive in Australia from Africa were the Wurundjeri, Wathaurong, Gunditjmara, and Jaara tribes, who lived in south-eastern Australia. They knew that roots and tubers were important food sources, and they relied on murnong, a radish-like root with a crisp bite and the taste of sweet coconut, to survive.

#10

The last of Australia’s self-sufficient foragers were forced off their land and into the industrialised world in the 1950s. In other parts of the country, Aboriginal people had been moved off their land long before and confined to reservations.

#11

The tubers of the murnong plant, which are heavy enough to make the plant tilt over, grow in clumps, but are easily separated and scattered if disturbed. They are eaten raw, but Aboriginal cooks also made earth ovens in which hot stones were used to bake the tubers covered in layers of grass.

#12

The first colonists in Australia brought millions of sheep to the country, which ate their way through the landscape and the native plants. The soil was also light and soft, so the animals could nose their way right through to