A recent news story I read online describes lions and hyenas “waging war” on each other in Ethiopia. Doesn’t this explode your “law of limited competition”?Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Animals & Animal Rights, Evolution, Hunting| Read More
The Makaw tribe of the American Northwest is trying to return to their traditional life, resuming their hunt of the gray whale, but are opposed by all sorts of interest groups who think this shouldn’t happen. What’s your opinion of this?Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?|Tags: Animals & Animal Rights, Anthropology, Extinctions, Hunting, Leavers & Takers, Political Correctness| Read More
I am currently researching the evolution of various hunter gathers to the point of sedentarisation, where agriculture becomes the predominant method of subsistence. I was wondering if you knew of any hunter gatherer groups that have evolved past the “leaver” philosophy into an agrarian culture and then did a complete 180 back into their indigenous lifestyle. Also, do you think the recent whaling situation of the Makah people in the Northwest coast is representative of this move “backwards” or is it more likely these people are generating a pseudo-hunter-gatherer society?Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Hunting, Leavers & Takers, Technology| Read More
It’s my impression that the Makah are a Leaver people who are trying to reconnect with their distinct cultural identity. On the other hand, it’s being said by many that they’re not interested in the preservation of their culture, but the sale of black-market whale meat to Japan. What do you think?Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Hunting, Leavers & Takers, Religion| Read More
It seems to me that what you’re advocating in BEYOND CIVILIZATION is that people live as parasites on civilization. I can’t see what this has to do with living harmlessly.Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Beyond Civilization, Hunting| Read More
By the time we “discovered” America the continent was fully inhabited by Native Americans. Their population growth is much slower than ours, but it grows too. They still had enough of room to grow slowly without being a real danger for this world. But what if they have had another hundred thousand years? Their growth is slowed down by the way they live, but there’s no proof that it is really limited. Or is there a proof? Finally, my best argument is: they DO have a population control that works until now, which is more than we can assert. And it would be better to have a control that presumably works than to have NO control at all. But would it work if they would have our technology? If we don’t have to give up technology, and if the Leavers have the only known mechanism to control population, what would happen if you combine these components?Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Ecumenism, Famine, Hunting, Population Control| Read More
I wonder if you’ve seen Ray V. Audette’s book “NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman” to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body, which outlines a simple, natural way of eating based on what is known of the diet of Paleolithic humans.Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Hunting, Vegetarianism| Read More
Yes, but how are the strategies proposed in Beyond Civilization supposed to eliminate pollution, overpopulation, crime, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, poverty, police brutality, political corruption, racism, child abuse, violence against women, homophobia, pornography, violence in film and music, exploitation of the elderly, date rape, judicial malfeasance, insider trading, road rage, and media bias?Categories: I Have a Bone to Pick with You!, I Have a Question About the Books/the Characters, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Animals & Animal Rights, Beyond Civilization, Birth Control, Education, Evolution, Extinctions, Famine, Hunting, Leavers & Takers, Medicine, Priorities, Religion, Revolution, Technology| Read More
In your reply you suggest that being a vegetarian is ethnocentric. Are you implying that cannibalism is acceptable? About vegetarianism you say, “It suggests that creatures that resemble us are more precious than creatures that don’t.” You state that you can’t subscribe to the idea that animal life has some sort of higher right to life than plant life. Are we humans animal life? Isn’t taking a life, any life, wrong?Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Bone to Pick with You!, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Hunting, Vegetarianism| Read More
You answer the questions about vegetarianism in strictly economic or agricultural terms. But vegetarianism can be a political stance as well–a desire on the part of people to NOT take from other species, to not use them, but in your words to “let all life forms continue to live and evolve.” A broad way of defining vegetarianism is that it not only involves not eating animal products but not wearing animals, not using them for research, not exhibiting them unnaturally, etc. In other words, if one looks at your 3-part definition of the Taker mentality, vegetarianism seems to fly in the face of all three. Why then, if looked at from this perspective, can we not say that vegetarianism, in its respect for the equality of all life on the planet, isn’t an example of the Leaver mentality? (I realize it isn’t the ONLY re-visioning necessary because we can still treat the earth as though it belongs to us even if we are only eating plant life. I also realize that Leavers ate meat albeit in a different spirit.)Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Bone to Pick with You!, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Animals & Animal Rights, Famine, Hunting, Political Correctness, Vegetarianism| Read More
