碳水的胜利

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• We can never know why the cultures of the Fertile Crescent gave up hunting and gathering (Adam and Eve's biblical profession) in favour of farming (Cain's biblical profession) and herding domesticated animals (Abel's biblical profession). There is archaeological evidence from skeletons that people had been healthier as hunters and gathereres and that embracing agriculture -- and bread as a staple -- was not the best choice for everyone... between the text of the Old Testament and traditional Jewish myths surrounding the first biblical generations, farming was not cast in a good light. Cain, the first farmer, was the first murderer, the first to lie to his Lord, the man responsible for the first cities, by implication built with involuntary labour. By Jewish tradition Cain was also the man ... (查看原文)

  lowai 2012-12-20 03:38:15