We must keep in mind that to hunter gathers in the past, a successful hunt could have been a difference between life or death. This is would be very motivating. If failure was death, I definitely give it my all.

Our lifespan is higher than that of our ancestors. Our intelligence has also increased.

Our lifespan is higher because every day isn't a struggle to survive and because of emergency medical care.

Intelligence is very vague to define. If a modern human was transported to the paleolithic, the hunter-gathers would think that he or she was retarded because of a lack of survival skills and wit.

Apart from turtles and snails, humans cant outrun but other humans. Which animals can we outrun, Miles? Animals are superior to us in both stamina and speed.

The idea is not to outrun. Humans are intelligent and found ways to injure prey from distance. THEN, they chase the prey down. The injury makes chasing down much easier.

Are the benefits of raw honey worth it for those that become hypoglycemic with sugar?

An organism's genetic makeup does not change from eating GM foods. It could have unforeseen consequences, but genetic makeup is fixed. Horizontal gene transfer is a more common occurrence between bacteria, fungi, and plants. Animals are not going to gain any new genes from these organisms. Super diseases are a result of antibiotic abuse, and yes gene exchange occurs commonly among microorganisms. These new genes simply make the organism more resistant to the antibiotics that have been made. It doesn't make them any more deadly than if one refused any treatment. Keep your immune system powerful and hope for the best on this one  .

If the GM trees limp, that means that natural selection will weed them out and they will never have a foothold in the wild. The problem arises when GM organisms have an incredible ability to complete with the natural population.

Monsanto is definitely an evil corporation, but more people are becoming aware of their madness every day. Even if I don't agree with Whole Foods 100%, we NEED these type of companies to raise awareness since they are big enough to have influence and oppose GMOs.

Don't fall into feelings of futility. It can make you crazy. It certainly made me for a while.

If only I can go back in time and show him how to live paleo, just imagine how wonderful the world would be now 

And help him actually get accepted into art school. Imagine how the world would be if he had become an artist instead.

During my health seeking journey, I have become more open-minded about many things. However, this just sounds silly.

I am a bit wary of so called "gurus". There are so many "experts" out there that claim they know the way, and it is very confusing to figure out who is right and who is wrong.

I choose the information from "gurus" whether that be Sally Fallon, Joe Mercola, or Aajonus and practice what works the best for me.

don't you worry about that.  there is way plenty of clean animals for both raw and cooked meat eaters.
regular Joes are pretty happy with supermarket meat.  don't let this one keep you awake at night.

Exactly. Most people are repulsed by what we do. Supply will likely never be an issue.

That clip reminds me of the hype around antioxidants. I have seen bars containing chocolate exclaiming that it is a source of antioxidants.

Person 1: "Our chocolate bar has what humans need. It's has antioxidants."

Person 2: "Just what are antioxidants?!"

Person 1: "It's.... It's what humans need..."

Person 3: "It has antioxidants!"

Lol, just hope I. Newkirk doesn't ever become prime minister.

You didn't. I knew you were just making a point. 

I'm pretty sure everyone on this forum is in favor of conservation and taking only what we need and leaving what we don't need.

Be Leavers and not Takers

It's interesting, we all whinge about environmental disasters, but I haven't noticed the widespread return of people travelling around on asses in Canada or the US. 

I believe we are all hypocritical to some degree.

Basically we are fishing the oceans to the point where fish are going the way of the dodo bird. That is a fact. Cod are very scarce around Newfoundland where it was a cornucopia of them in the past. However what are we supposed to do? Stop eating?

Then we should try to eat fish that aren't so few in number. I think we should give time for some species to recover and start eating them again when numbers are plentiful. Extinction would be bad...

Anyways, I saw some figures that gave me some perspective. There is an estimated 6.43 X 10^17 gallons of water in the gulf. About 206,000,000 or 2.06 X 10^8 gallons of oil were spilled. In terms of percentage of the gulf it would be 3.2 X 10^-8% or .000000032%. It's probably less than that now since bacteria have been working on it for a long time. Since the gulf is usually very warm, the bacteria would probably work faster than it did for the Exxon Valdez spill. Some have expressed concern that the oil is accumulating on the seabed as if it was a bad thing, but won't it eventually get buried back to where it originally was? It is very likely that there are pollutants in much greater concentration at fish farms.