You have no idea where I grew up … I’m Indigenous Canadian and for about the first 12 years of my life mom and dad fed us about 60-70% of our diet was wild food (goose, duck, moose, caribou, fish, beaver, rabbit, fox, marten, wolf, bear and small birds … not to mention wild vegetables, herbs and berries). Dad was a trapper and since we couldn’t afford expensive store bought food, mom was an expert in preparing, preserving and managing wild food supplies. Dad sold the furs, mom processed the meat … some of it was disgusting but it was all we could afford to eat at times. Some of it was delicious - smoked fish packed with seasalt is like candy. I can safely say that my high protein diet as a child saved me from malnutrition. There were other families like mine around me with parents that weren’t good hunters and gatherers and relied heavily on processed, canned and boxed foods … the majority of those people died early deaths from heart disease, diabetes and gastrointestinal cancers.
You have no idea where I grew up … I’m Indigenous Canadian and for about the first 12 years of my life mom and dad fed us about 60-70% of our diet was wild food (goose, duck, moose, caribou, fish, beaver, rabbit, fox, marten, wolf, bear and small birds … not to mention wild vegetables, herbs and berries). Dad was a trapper and since we couldn’t afford expensive store bought food, mom was an expert in preparing, preserving and managing wild food supplies. Dad sold the furs, mom processed the meat … some of it was disgusting but it was all we could afford to eat at times. Some of it was delicious - smoked fish packed with seasalt is like candy. I can safely say that my high protein diet as a child saved me from malnutrition. There were other families like mine around me with parents that weren’t good hunters and gatherers and relied heavily on processed, canned and boxed foods … the majority of those people died early deaths from heart disease, diabetes and gastrointestinal cancers.