Traditional meat

As our family tradition emphasizes the consumption of meat? Think about it. When we think of Thanksgiving, we think in Turkey. If we eat pork, then New Year often revolve around pork and sauerkraut. In the Christian Passover, the traditional meal is ham. And summer, we expect that the first hamburger or a grilled steak.

As a species that was designed to eat vegetables and fruit, nuts, berries and vegetables?

One can imagine that eating meat was initially opportunistic event, born of the need to survive. The taste of cooked meat and sustainable energy that came earlier from the consumption of meat products with high fat original sense of the people.

First, the search for the cooked meat of animals from a forest fire that was cause for celebration. This is something that everyone in a clan that participated in eating together. If man out hunting and guiding one of the game, but as an orientation of the hunter-gatherers who learned in groups. Want to look at the teams and the killing of animals for food would have been a group effort. Food hunting and killing animals is not just for individuals but for the clan, and were a cause for celebration, when the hunters brought food.

If the animal is returned to the clan, it would be a group effort to cut into the skin of the animal and tear, or the meat from the carcass. Everyone involved in this, and later at the residence of the fruits of their labor.

It is easy to see how all I had to hunt for meat, but it could buy, and the need to collect ceremony was deeply rooted in our nature. We celebrate the seasons and life events with family and friends, and because the first events involved to eat meat, that tradition has continued until today.