Pros And Cons Of Being A Hunter-Gatherer

Environmental science I think that it is very interesting how we came from being the hunter-gatherer people into becoming the agricultural people all simultaneously. I would have to say that I do agree with Jared Diamond on how we came to be agricultural people. He makes some very clear and accurate reasoning’s about how we came to be. I personally wish that most of us would have kept the hunter-gather instinct that is naturally in us and we could exploit that more throughout us nowadays. The first reason would be that you really do have to work less when you are a hunter or a gatherer in society. My grandpa is an old time farmer. That's how he lives and raised my mom. SoI know first hand that it works but I also know how stressful it is and how immensely hard it is too. it works and it can be done. But I also am a super avid hunter and those some days I may not get anything there are days that it is a ton easier to go and kill an animal then it is to wait and raise a garden or even

Its healthier because farmers tend to only focus on certain cash crops and not a varied diet of crops. So the hunter-gather people could get all their nutrients and everything they needed when they gathered and they weren’t just stuck to one crop, and it showed too. "Compared to the hunter-gatherers who preceded them, the farmers had a nearly 50 per cent increase in enamel defects indicative of malnutrition, a fourfold increase in iron-deficiency anemia..." (Diamond) Also with the added diet that is very healthy for them, they also are less stressful too. they spend a lot less time then a farmer would do on his farm. Diamond states," the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen." These are many of health benefits on how hunter-gather people are better off then