Hunter-gatherer blog post 1

In the hunter-gatherer era, unfortunately a great deal of food went to waste. Groups of hunters would stalk herds of bison and maneuver them toward cliffs. Then the hunters would cause stampedes driving the bison off the cliff and to their gruesome deaths. Hunters stationed below the cliffs would kill any bison who survived the fall. The mass slaughter of entire herds of bison left far more meat than the hunter-gatherers could possibly use, so they took what they could and left the remaining meat to rot or possibly for some scavenging animal to find. The hunter-gatherers were clearly very wasteful killing far more bison than they could use, but sadly this is not unlike modern times. Today in the U.S. alone it is thought that approximately 30-40% of all food goes to waste.

People today, not unlike people of the hunter-gatherer era, are wasteful. All throughout human history, including present times, people have greedily taken more than they could eat. Today the U.S. department of agriculture is striving to change that, but old habits die hard. For thousands of years people have killed more than they could eat and thought nothing of it and sadly this way of thinking is still around today. Perhaps this wasteful way of thinking is a predetermined mind set of humans through out history, but hopfuly this mind set will be somthing we can rid ourselfs of in the near future.