Cereal killer: the introduction of agriculture was followed by malnutrition and disease Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph:
Academics have claimed that moving away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle was 'the worst mistake in history'. But are they right?
Last week, Sir Paul McCartney urged us, amid a blaze of publicity, to curb our carnivorous lifestyles and go meat-free on Mondays, in order to reduce the damage that modern agriculture does to the planet. But for all the recent talk about the pros and cons of farming, and how the methods we use are affecting the environment, a more basic point has been missed e_SEnD that growing crops might be damaging not just to the environment but to the development of our own species. Could it be that rather than being a boon to mankind, the invention of agriculture was, in the words of one academic, "the worst mistake in human history"?
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