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You are not what you eat but what you GROW to eat
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[QUOTE="phinds, post: 5877883, member: 310841"] In a recent thread someone posted the old saw "you are what you eat" and it reminded me of a wonderful article that I read a couple of years ago in, I think it was, The Economist. I have long been interested in the differences between the mindsets of Asian peoples and Western peoples and this article gave a marvelous insight. The title of the article was "You are what you eat. Well, not really what you eat but what you grow to eat". It's thesis was this: In early days of agriculture there was a great difference. In Asia, the staple was rice, in the West, wheat. Now rice can be planted / harvested more than once a year and has no hard and fast sowing/reaping timing requirements whereas wheat has to be planted once a year and harvested similarly. SO ... in Asian cultures, there evolved a communal mentality base on everyone going to one person's rice field and planting and then moving on to the next and by the time they got to the last one it was time to go back to the first one for the harvest. So all the planting and harvesting was done by all together and thus the evolution of the communal mentality. In the West, it was not that people were less community minded but everyone had to plant at the same time and harvest at the same time, so it was every man for himself, thus the evolution of the individual mentality. Very interesting, I thought (and still think) [/QUOTE]
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