Cavemen Rock!

Should we revert back to being cavemen?

The life of a caveman was a natural one, man and nature in concert with, and respectful of, one another.

Man became hungry, looked for food, ate some and stored the rest for the lean months. Man remained lean.

The cavemen were tough, resilient people, with a healthy respect for Mother Nature. More importantly, they were an intelligent people. Intelligence is about fulfilling needs which, in turn, creates resourcefulness. Resourceful people are ingenious, imaginative, capable and quick-witted.

Living in a cave was a great improvement to living under the stars, at the mercy of Mother Nature’s whims. These cave dwellers struggled with inventing things they could use to fell trees, harness fire, clothe themselves, and feed their family.

They had nothing to begin with, and discovered/invented a lot of known survival techniques that we take for granted today. It was they who first used most laws of physics, too. Modern man merely explained them and gave them fancy names.

Cavemen lived in harsh conditions where “survival of the fittest” meant – if you can’t catch your chow you don’t survive; or, if your neighbor’s weapon of necessity, the club, is bigger than yours, you’ll be the one with massive head trauma, or dead.

Body language and social graces were very important back then. A smile or a frown could be the deciding factor between peace and war.

Modern man is made of the same stuff as our forefathers … still inventing - re-inventing and refining what nature gives to us so freely.

Modern man is ingenious, which is very good, but when it comes to altering nature, this ingeniousness can often be a hindrance and not a help.

Animals are being bred to mature at a much quicker pace, causing them to have thick layers of unnatural, unhealthy fat around their frames; rockets are sent up into the heavens to trigger off lightning. Our excessive greed and use of modern technology are causing greenhouse gases which are speeding up global warming.

Obesity and global warming are just two of the myriad problems afflicting our world today. Could the simple solution be a question of who eats whom?

Do you think if we didn’t breed cows, chickens, lambs and pigs in such large numbers and with so much haste, that perhaps we wouldn’t have so many health and heat problems?

English Cumberland sausage, the German Bratwurst, the South African Boerewors, the Spanish Chorizo, the Breakfast sausage, the Lunch sausage... the list goes on and on, and that's only one variation of a myriad of meat by-products. What happened to eating a simple diet?

Imagine a world where animals roamed free, where cows were like lions or tigers – rare and exotic – to be admired, or hunted, depending upon your clan's needs, a world where humans and animals alike fed off the greens of the earth, the seasonal berries and legumes.

Of course, we can't go back to cavemen days, but surely we can start to take responsibility for our planet? Thriving on human greed is what has brought us to a very sad statistic. About one quarter of the world's adults is overweight. Doesn't that frighten you? It does me.