At 04:27 PM 19/11/04, you wrote:
Actually they do eat fermented fish and meat. They bury it for long periods of
time in the ground, I understand, and need to eat some of it to thrive.
<http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/2001/jan/21/weston_price.htm>http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/2001/jan/21/weston_price.htm
"Eskimo, or Innu, ate a diet of almost 100% animal products with hefty
amounts of fish. Walrus and seal, and other marine mammals also formed an
integral part of the diet. Blubber (fat) was consumed with relish. Innu
would gather nuts, berries, and some grasses during the short summer
months, but their diet was basically all meat and fat. Price noted that
the Innu would usually ferment their meat before eating it. That is, they
would bury it and allow it to slightly putrefy before consuming it. Innu
would also eat the partially digested grasses of caribou by cutting open
their stomachs and intestines."
Sounds tasty, eh? ;)>
Shak
I think - no actual further research by me here - that they would eat
whatever they could whenever they could. Tough life up there!
I'm not sure how often they would get at Caribou - as Merlyon wrote -
contrary to popular Euro-Western belief, everything in America was owned by
whatever tribe was strong enough to deny others access to it and the poor
old Eskimo would not have got much chance at it, I think. They were never
numerous or sufficiently violent enough to even get hold of decent territory.
Strangely, as we tend to define meat-eaters as basically violent - their
diet *was* basically animal, but THEY caught it slaughtered it and ate it
. As for rotting it down - I think that could be an error - based on the
fact that (a) they had permanent refrigeration (b) they wasted
nothing. Price certainly got it wrong in part there, but possibly because
of timing.
Virtually all carnivores - human ones included - in a primitive state - eat
their kill rapidly.
Cheers,
Himagain. Virtually all Religions started off similarly with the idea
that we should separate ourselves from the animal as soon as possible and
that automatically seemed to include the breaking of the killing cycle.
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