INDIGENOUS DIETS KEEPING TRIBES HEALTHY – BUT FOODS DISAPPEARING
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSERVATIONISTS may detest the notion of jungle food - cooking rain forest species for the dinner table. But harvested sustainably, the plants, animals and birds of jungles, deserts, ice caps and steppes inhabited by traditional societies offer excellent nutrition. Their diets are varied; commercial western fare often uses just four commercial crops - wheat, rice, corn, and soy, also feed livestock for meat and dairy. So days, 'Indigenous People's Food Systems', a book co-published by the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and ...
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